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Title: Active Social Life May Reduce Men's Alzheimer's Risk
Category: Health News
Created: 9/27/2008 2:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 9/29/2008

Title: Surgery Unneeded in Most Asymptomatic Carotid Stenosis Cases
Category: Health News
Created: 9/26/2008 2:00:00 AM
Last Editorial Review: 9/26/2008

Alzheimer's Disease can begin many years before it is eventually diagnosed. In its early stages, short-term memory loss is the most common symptom, often initially thought to be caused by aging or stress by the sufferer. Later symptoms include confusion, anger, mood swings, language breakdown, long-term memory loss, and the general withdrawal of the sufferer as his or her senses decline. Gradually the sufferer loses minor, and then major bodily functions, until death occurs. Although the symptoms are common, each individual experiences the symptoms in unique ways. The duration of the disease is estimated as being between 5 and 20 years. More than 4.5 million Americans are believed to have Alzheimer's disease and by 2050, the number could increase to 13.2 million. Approximately 65,800 victims die and 350,000 new cases of Alzheimer's disease are diagnosed each year. America is not alone in dealing with this terrible affliction. In every nation where life expectancy has increased, so has the incidence of Alzheimer's disease. Alzheimer's disease is becoming tragically common.

It is estimated that there are currently 50 million people worldwide with Alzheimer's disease. This figure is projected to grow to more than 160 million people by 2050. The first sign of Alzheimer disease is a continuous pattern of forgetting things. This starts to affect a person's daily life. He or she may forget where the grocery store is or the names of family and friends. This stage of the disease may last for some time or quickly progress, causing memory loss and forgetfulness to get worse. Although some kinds of memory loss are normal parts of aging, the changes due to aging are not severe enough to interfere with the level of function. Many different diseases can cause dementia, but Alzheimer's disease is by far the most common cause for dementia in the United States and in most countries in the world.

Alzheimer's is a progressive and unfortunately fatal brain disease for which there is no cure. It destroys brain cells causing loss of memory, mainly short term loss. In addition to memory loss Alzheimer's causes thinking and behavior problems that can become serious enough to effect your work, your social life, and the ability to accomplish simple everyday tasks such as personal grooming, preparing meals, household chores and many other things. As the disease progresses you could even forget how to do these things altogether

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Rejuvenating changes in one's body can be initiated and effected by nutrition, vitamins herbs and herbo-minerals. Aging and its associated problems are a degenerative disease, which, however, is preventable and treatable. The aging process involves the action of highly reactive free radicals, produced systemically, which interact with other cellular compounds and produce oxidative damages and eventually kills cells and tissues and impairs the immune function of the organism. Such free radical damage accumulates and increases with age, creating degenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer's, cardiovascular, arthritis, cancer and over a hundred other diseases.

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Shilajit is a humus rich blackish-brown substance. It is very useful in many diseases and serves as a potent tonic. It is Mother Nature's original organic Colloidal miracle-mineral supplement with self assimilation qualities as compared to inorganic colloidal sources. Shilajit stimulates the immune system and reduces chronic fatigue. It has been used historically for general physical strengthening, anti-aging, blood sugar stabilization, libido enhancement, injury healing, urinary tract rejuvenation, enhanced brain function, bone healing, kidney rejuvenation, immune system strengthening, arthritis, hypertension, obesity and many other applications for numerous conditions.

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Asthma symptoms can be substantially reduced by avoiding known allergens and airway irritants. There are things in the environment that trigger your asthma symptoms and lead to asthma attacks. Allergens like animal dander (from the skin, hair, or feathers of animals), Dust mites, Cockroaches, pollen from trees and grass mold (both indoor and outdoor) can trigger asthma. Irritants like cigarette smoke, air pollution, cold air or changes in weather, strong odors from painting or cooking, scented products can also cause asthma. There also psychological factors like strong emotional expression including crying or laughing hard and stress that can trigger asthma. A condition called gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) that causes heartburn can worsen asthma symptoms, especially at night. This is not a complete list of all the things that can bring on asthma symptoms.

If other people in your family have asthma then you are more likely to develop it. New research suggests that being exposed to things like tobacco smoke, infections, and some allergens early in your life may increase your chances of developing asthma.
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Scientists recently confirmed what many holistic health practitioners have known all along: that children's risk of developing asthma and allergies can begin in the mother's womb. Mother's Diet Does Make a Difference Several studies have shown that mother's diet during pregnancy can increase or decrease the risk of allergies and asthma in children. A German study (Sausenthaler et al) found that certain foods, including margarine, raw sweet pepper and citrus, and also deep fried food, increase risk of some kinds of allergies, whereas a diet rich in omega-3 essential fatty acids (those found in fish and raw nuts) had a protective effect on children. A six-year study by Leda Chatzi and colleagues showed that eating a quality Mediterranean-style diet in pregnancy may protect the unborn child from allergies and asthma. The classic Mediterranean diet - high in vegetables, fruits, olive oil, fish, legumes and nuts - has long been recognised for protecting against heart disease and cancer, and now we know that it can also help protect children from allergies and asthma.

 
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Swimming in outdoor chlorinated pools appears to increase the odds a child will develop asthma, Belgian researchers said on Thursday.
Other studies have linked chlorine and asthma but the new findings published in the European Respiratory Journal cast doubt on the idea outdoor pools are safer than indoor ones where chlorine vapors remains trapped inside an enclosed space.

""The more you swim, the higher the risk,"" said Alfred Bernard, a toxicologist at Catholic University of Louvain in Brussels, who led the study. ""What is new in this study is that we looked at outdoor pools for the first time.""

Asthma, which affects more than 300 million people worldwide, is the most common pediatric chronic illness. Symptoms include wheezing, shortness of breath, coughing and chest tightness.

Bernard and colleagues showed that outdoor pools are just as or more risky than indoor ones because harmful vapors remain at the pool surface and do not drift away.

And because children tend to spend more time in pools they are more likely to swallow chlorinated water or ingest vapors containing chemicals that attack the cellular barriers protecting the lung from allergens, Bernard said.

""We see that the risk of the outdoor pool is equal and even higher than indoor pools because children tend to spend longer in outdoor pools and they are more chlorinated,"" he said.

The Belgian team tested 847 students around the age of 15 for allergies and asthma and asked their parents about exposure to asthma risks such as tobacco smoke, pets and pollution, and how much time the children had spent in chlorinated pools.

The researchers determined that the risk for the 50 percent of children predisposed to allergies and asthma was directly related to the amount of time spent in a pool.

Children with the highest pool attendance -- one hour per week for 10 years -- were five times more likely to be asthmatic than young people who had never swum in a pool, the study found.

""Young children are more exposed because they take more water into their airways and their lungs are still developing,"" Bernard said in a telephone interview.

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HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, Sept. 24 (HealthDay News) -- American children are
three times more likely to be prescribed psychotropic medications for
conditions such as ADHD and bipolar disease than European children are, a
new study finds.

Source:U.S. Kids Take More Psychotropic Drugs Than Europeans
(HealthDay)

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