A new study of more than 29,000 older adults has identified six habits from eating a variety of foods to regularly reading or playing cards that are linked with a lower risk of dementia and a slower rate of memory decline.
While researchers have long known that there is a link between dementia and factors such as social isolation and obesity, the size and scope of the new study adds substantial evidence to a global body of research that suggests a healthy lifestyle may help brains age better.
It warns that unless the US’s dependence on cars in towns and cities falls drastically, the transition to lithium battery-powered electric vehicles by 2050 will deepen global environmental and social inequalities linked to mining – and may even jeopardize the 1.5C global heating target.
The global demand for lithium, also known as white gold, is predicted to rise over 40 times by 2040, driven predominantly by the shift to electric vehicles. Grassroots protests and lawsuits against lithium mining are on the rise from the US and Chile to Serbia and Tibet amid rising concern about the socio-environmental impacts and increasingly tense geopolitics around supply.
The damage happened during this President's Inflation, high Food prices, Food shortage world wide, South Border Migrants, Covid-19 Death, high Gas Prices, Cancelling Keystone XL pipe line, Nord stream Pipe line, and initiating and supporting the Ukraine war and destruction, will take many years to recover from it all. Many years.
United States and Germany tried to resolve a stand-off that has so far prevented the West from sending heavy tanks to Ukraine.
Berlin has so far blocked allies from sending its Leopard 2 tanks, workhorse of militaries across Europe. Washington and many Western allies say the Leopards - which Germany made in the thousands during the Cold War and exported to its allies - are the only suitable option available in big enough numbers.
A German government source said Berlin would lift its objections if Washington sends its own Abrams tanks. But U.S. officials say they have no plans yet to send the Abrams, which runs on powerful turbine engines seen as using too much fuel for Kyiv's strained logistics system to supply at the front.
The West is saying "Let the killing continues." We really care. Just a thought.
As we age, we are naturally less able to do for ourselves. Declining physical health, unstable balance, falls, memory loss, dementia, impaired mobility, frailty…all these factors and more contribute to greater reliance on others.
Retirement, lack of dependent children, empty calendars, failing memory, weakening faculties are just some of the contributors to a sense of insignificance among the elderly.
Add to that ageism, so prevalent in our youth-obsessed culture, and it’s easy to understand why seniors can become despondent.
The slipup occurred as Biden listed statistics for various armaments sent by Ukraine's allies to aid the country against the invading Russians.
President Biden said such supplies were "all to help counter Ukraine's brutal aggression that's happening because of Russia."
The president seemingly meant to say "Russia's brutal aggression." He paused briefly after he said aggression, then added the statement about Russia to the end of the sentence.
The gaffe occurred during Biden's announcement that the United States would provide Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's forces with 31 M1 Abrams battle tanks.
Comment:
Is there a time in the history of the USA and are not involved in a war somewhere?
Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Somalia, Ukraine.
