Archive for January, 2010
Saturday, January 30th, 2010
Previously, a number of studies have suggested that engaging in physical exercise helps to ward off cognitive decline as we age. Yonas Geda, from the Mayo Clinic (Minnesota, USA), and colleagues studied 1,324 men and women, ages 70 to 89 years, who did not have dementia at the study’s start. Study subjects completed a physical exercise questionnaire for a two-year period, after which they were also assessed by a medical team to classify each as having normal cognition or mild cognitive impairment. A total of 198 participants (median or midpoint age, 83 years) were determined to have mild cognitive impairment and 1,126 (median age 80) had normal cognition. Those study subjects who reported performing moderate exercise—such as brisk walking, aerobics, yoga, strength training or swimming—during midlife or late life were less likely to have mild cognitive impairment. Midlife moderate exercise was associated with 39% reduction in the odds of developing the condition, and moderate exercise in late life was associated with a 32% reduction. Neither light exercise (such as bowling, slow dancing or golfing with a cart) nor vigorous exercise (including jogging, skiing and racquetball) were associated with reduced risk for mild cognitive impairment. The researchers conclude that: [A]ny frequency of moderate exercise performed in midlife or late life was associated with a reduced odds of having [mild cognitive impairment].”
Source: A4M – Excercise Now to Prevent Cognitive Decline Later in Life
Tags: Exercise
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Tuesday, January 26th, 2010
by Dr. John Breeding, author of The Wildest Colts Make the Best Horses.
Ask the average person about the use of electroshock treatment in today’s society and 9 out of 10 will respond, “They still shock people?”
They do. It’s estimated that more than 100,000 Americans are electroshocked each year; half are 60 and older, and two-thirds are women. In Australia, it was recently revealed that psychiatrists had electroshocked 55 toddlers age four and younger. In the UK, three year olds have been brutalized with it. And one of the country’s leading mental health “patients’ rights” groups—the National Alliance of Mental Illness (NAMI)—recently endorsed the use of electroshock on pregnant women. One would wonder why a patients’ rights group would endorse such an obviously harmful procedure if not for the fact that the group has recently been exposed as a major front for the psycho/pharmaceutical industry.
Read the rest of this article by Dr. John Breeding, psychologist, by clicking here.
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Wednesday, January 20th, 2010
Elderly Japanese green tea drinkers who drank four or more cups of green tea a day demonstrated a significantly decreased likelihood of becoming depressed and developing depression like symptoms according to a new study.
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Sources: Green tea consumption is associated with depressive symptoms in the elderly
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Monday, January 18th, 2010
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Saturday, January 16th, 2010
Here is a delicious meat loaf recipe for dogs from Dr. Deva Khalsa, Veterinarian. Please visit the “Pet Supplements” section in our store by clicking here.
1 lb. ground turkey
1 cup mixed veggies (finely chopped broccoli, carrots and parsley)
1 cup ground nuts ( almonds and sesame seeds 3:1)
1 cup wheat germ
1/2 cup plain granola
1/4 cup ground flax seed
1 single serving high protein and no sugar added Greek yogurt
2 eggs
Mix all ingredients well and fill into cupcake pan with ice cream scooper.
Cook at 350 degrees for 20 – 25 minutes.
Makes 12 servings.
If you wish to use a loaf pan cook for 25 – 30 minutes and slice.
Bone appetite’
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Wednesday, January 13th, 2010
According to a new study completed at Duke University by Kathleen Hayden, PhD, exposure to pesticides may increase the risk of dementia by as much as 70%.
Dr. Hayden based her finding on data from the Cache County Study of Memory and Health, an ongoing study that began in 1995 and includes over 5000 subjects. The population used for this study was especially relevant because the subjects live in a rural area with lots of agriculture, including the cultivation of wheat, soybeans, apples, corn and hay. Dr. Hayden’s study assessed the risk of dementia and Alzheimer’s disease in 4012 of these subjects, all of which were free of dementia when the study began. Her analysis found consistent significant relationships between new-onset dementia and exposure to organochlorine and organophosphate pesticides. In addition, any exposure to pesticide was associated with a 56% increase in the risk of dementia and Alzheimer’s disease.
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Tags: Pesticides
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Monday, January 11th, 2010
A new year has arrived, and with it, a new list of resolutions. If “eating better” is on your list, experts say, there are a few items you can slip into to your diet that can improve your health and help you ward off certain diseases in 2010.
Katherine Tallmadge, national spokeswoman for the American Dietetic Association and a registered dietitian in Washington, D.C., says you can find these foods in most stores. Best of all, they’re high in benefits but low in calories.
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Saturday, January 2nd, 2010
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Much love,
Dr. Deva Khalsa, Veterinarian
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