“But First, Are You Experienced?”
A colonoscopy is the most dreaded and despised initiation rite of arriving at your 50’s. But, humbling as it may be, it has been found to identify 65% of pre-cancerous polyps in women.
So a colonoscopy experience can have redeeming features. A colonoscopy is like an advanced sigmoidoscopy. [...]
Exercise Your Brain.
According to Michael Merzenich, chief scientific officer with Posit Science in San Francisco, the key to memory longevity is lifelong learning. (Exercising your brain.)
“Often, as people age, they engage in less and less learning,” Merzenich told United Press International. “They rest on their laurels, and their environments, even if stimulating (such as a [...]
Avoiding Alzheimer’s disease can be as easy as drinking fruit juices and flossing daily— according to a new study by the New York School of Medicine. What they found was:
1. Drinking fruit or vegetable juice at least three times a week makes you four times less likely to develop Alzheimer’s. So mom was right. Carrot [...]