Life style

By Kate Carraway Special to the Star Mon., Jan. 7, 2019 Here we are, in the hard light of January, wading through dried-out pine needles, gifts to return, garbage bags filled with crinkled paper and already-abandoned resolutions of getting organized. I don’t make resolutions, personally, because most of them fail and I’m not into self-flagellation, but sometime in the middle of 2018, following a series of the typical calamities that turned my home and schedule and brain into scrambled eggs, I decided it was time (finally, finally, finally) to become really organized, for real. I listed, using paper and pen and the version of honesty that has to be dredged from the subconscious, everything that was malfunctioning in my organizational life. The list included being late, way too often, indicating a lack of planning and an ongoing fantasy about what I do and when I do it, and how energy and spontaneity and work have undeniably changed in my … [Read more...] about Being organized can be a new life style, not just a New Year’s resolution

Life-long risk reduction could cut late dementia by a third (Second of two parts) Tackling poor childhood education is a daunting task and requires commitment from both public and private sectors, the report noted, but its importance cannot be overstated. • Hearing loss at midlife – This emerged as the most powerful risk factor in the analysis, conferring an independent nine percent increased risk of dementia, a relatively new idea that has not been included in previous calculations of population attributable factors according to the commission. The mechanism of increased risk isn’t clear, but maybe a combination of neurodegeneration and social isolation imposed by being shut out of easy communication. It’s unclear whether hearing aids can mitigate the effects of hearing loss on dementia risk, the report noted. • Hypertension, obesity and diabetes – Respectively, these accounted for two percent, one percent and one … [Read more...] about Life-long risk reduction could cut late dementia by a third