You know how over the recent few years, it’s become a common thing if you order nearly any fish dish but perhaps especially tuna in a restaurant, for someone to say to you, “But what about the mercury?” (that’s just the kind of people I meet in restaurants) by which they don’t mean they want […]
Nothing – no touted therapy, no test, and especially no medication – ever works as well when released into the real world as it did in the studies that were touted – way too often zealously over-hyped – when this particular therapy, test, drug was first discovered to have a potential benefit. Many reasons for […]
At least that’s the conclusion from a recent study published in JAMA Internal Medicine that surprisingly concluded that people with cataracts, and that’s a huge huge number of aging folks, have a lower risk of eventual dementia if they get their cataract taken care of, which means having the lens and their cataracts removed surgically. […]
Maybe. A recent study of 915 community-dwelling adults (in other words, a real world population), concluded that people who have been eating yogurt regularly have lower blood pressures than people who haven’t enjoyed delicious bowls of yogurt on a regular basis. And the more yogurt they ate, the lower their BP. The researchers claim that […]
Why? Because according to a new American analysis of 13 462 cases of sudden-onset strokes, acute anger raises your risk of all sorts of strokes and brain hemorrhage within about 1 hour of the onset of your anger. Interestingly, and something to take into account during snowfalls in our wintry country, “heavy physical exertion” also raised […]
I have a hard time eating properly and reading since I have only enough attention to fully focus on one important thing at a time, and since for me eating dwarfs everything else in importance, I have to admit that I rarely end up remembering much of what I was reading while I ate, although […]
I’m willing to bet that every person over the age of 50, and probably a great many people even younger than that, immediately thinks “OMG! Alzheimer’s”, as soon as they can’t remember where they left the keys or the name of that idiot they saw on TV last week. In reality, though, misplaced keys are […]
Pneumonia means an infection in the lungs, and depending on the type and severity and the person who gets it, it’s still a common cause of death, particularly in the elderly. So that means you want to do all you can to lower your risk of getting pneumonia, and to that end, according to a […]
And not just whether or not you are fully-vaccinated, which for nearly everyone right now should mean having had 3 doses, although clearly being fully-vaccinated is probably the most important self-directed risk factor to take care of. But as a reminder that at least some of the risk for severity of outcome with this virus […]
And not to just to others, alas. Easy way to determine: Just ask anyone how much they weigh. Then weigh them. 100 to 1 they under-estimated their weight to you. But we also lie to ourselves a lot. So someone will tell themselves, for example, that they really truly actually weigh less than the scale […]