As I rush around in the mornings getting ready for work, I half listen to the local and national news. Sometimes a snippet catches my attention, but the commentators are on to something else before I can get the information straight. For example, the other morning I heard this statistic "Over the next ___ years one in three people will die with (not of, with) Alzheimer's." One in three?? That's truly scary and pretty unbelievable, but it got me to thinking - what are we all doing that generations before us didn't do?
Of all the people I have known in my father's generation -my parent, aunts and uncles, and parents of friends, I can think of three who had Alzheimer's -none in my immediate family - out of probably 50 or more people that I could quickly name, certainly not one in three.
So what are we doing to ourselves?
What's in our food? beverages? atmosphere? OTC meds? other? that could impact so many, so drastically? Are we reading too little, watching TV too much, focusing on computer and other screens all day? I am sure there are lots of studies being done so my assignment to me is to do some reading.
More on this later.
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