Published: November 30, 2008
New York Times
By JOHN LELAND
Published: November 29, 2008
Even as they make up nearly 40 percent of family care providers now, men are less likely to ask for help to cope.
When Peter Nicholson’s mother suffered a series of strokes last winter, he did something women have done for generations: he quit his job and moved into her West Hollywood home to care for her full time.Since then, he has lost 45 pounds and developed anemia, in part because of the stress, and he is running out of money. But the hardest adjustment, Mr. Nicholson said, has been the emotional toll.“The single toughest moment was when she said to me, ‘And now who are you?’Â ” he said. “My whole world just dropped. That was the pinnacle of despair.”
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Source: New York Times
Published: November 29, 2008
Mice that were fed a diet rich in fat, sugar and cholesterol for nine months developed a preliminary stage of the morbid irregularities that form in the brains of Alzheimer’s patients. The study results, published in a doctoral thesis from the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet (KI), give some indications of how this difficult to treat disease might one day be preventable. [continue reading…]
Published: November 29, 2008
Older brains do not think as quickly as younger brains do. But does this cognitive impairment arise because processing speeds slacken or because the ability to block out irrelevant information falters? A recent study reconciles these two leading hypotheses: older brains have a harder time ignoring distractions in the initial stages of performing a task, which slows down processing.
Brains More Distracted, Not Slower with Age: Scientific American
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Source: Scientific American
Published: November 29, 2008
According to The Wall Street Journal health blog,people don’t gain as much weight over the holidays as they may think. Are you worried about weight gain over the holidays? Click here to read this feature which tells you just how much weight you’re likely to gain.
Source:Wall Street Journal
