You know how boys will be attracted to the most pretty girls. No matter how many times they are told that pretty girls do not necessarily make the best wives, they will congregate around the pretty girls like flies around garbage. Even I have done it. ("even", get real Roger). Our thinking is pushed around and bullied by our desires. The very same thing happens with food and exercise. We the people have been told umpteen million times that our health and happiness depends upon the quality of the food that we eat, our sleep, and our exercise; but it like falls on deaf ears. I want cookies and cream ice cream. I don't want the big salad. It is as simple as that. We don't want to hear that our health depends upon quality food. Then you toss in greed, another desire, into the mix, and old people in nursing homes get the shaft.
Roger Bird
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Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2014 19:57:34 -0500
Subject: [Minutus] Alzheimers
The stuff coming out of the news is driving me nuts. First they do a study of
nuns in North Dakota and they say some nuns have alzheimers and they don't
have plaques and some nuns didn't have Alzheimers and they did have plaques.
Then this study or some other study was reported years later on Sixty Minutes
as common knowledge. Then another study comes out a day ago saying that the
plaques that end up strangling the brain are now found 20 years before
Alzheimers in the retina of the eye using tumeric . What happened, I'm
guessing, is that someone had tumeric thrown in their eyes by an angry spouse
and they went to the doctor and the doctor found the ambloid plaques in their
retina. But since the plaques are neither here nor there as something to
configure in Alzheimers....who cares? Now it is attributed to the third
diabetes...brain diabetes...OR it is being sleep deprived for a long time. Or
you're not doing enough puzzles. I know what is going to happen to me when my
brain folds over. I'll be in the nursing home unable to talk or reason..but
i'll be able to finish a soduko puzzle in 5 minutes without using a pencil to
take notes. If it is all about diet and excercise....then why aren't nursing
homes geared for this....why is a person left in a wheelchair for hours during
the day and fed the most atrocious and vile and disgusting food on the planet
and they end up dying of bedsores way before alzheimers eats away at their
brain(if that is what is happening)..