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Preventive Strategies For Healthy Aging-Who Lives the Longest and Why

Posted on December 14th, 2009 admin No comments
Preventive Strategies For Healthy Aging-Who Lives the Longest and Why Who lives the longest? Do your genes really doom you? Is your diet that important? Can you have happy, healthy later years, or do you really have to be sick? Dan Buettner of Blue Zone, along with the National Geographic, found five areas of the world where people live the longest and healthiest. He studied what they do, what they eat, etc. He found each area has at least one distinct diet that helps people stay healthier longer. Is there such a pocket of such people in the U.S.? Yes, in Loma Linda California. They are Seventh Day Adventists and they base their diet on Gen 1:29. Here’s the passage. Then God said,” I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food.” (NIV version) Interesting…. the eating of meat had not been introduced yet. The plant based died was the original diet. Read more about the Blue Zone and Dan Buettner’s findings Tags: Health

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Dreaded Colonoscopy for Aging Parent

Posted on October 29th, 2009 admin No comments

We’re going through the dreaded colonscopy at my house.

My Dad, who is 83, is currently drinking the prep liquid.

That means, we’re all involved in one way or another.

Let’s face it. It’s a difficult test.

Improvements have been made, however.

He no longer has to drink as much of the liquid. He is only drinking about half the amount.

I’ve always wondered why a person who only weighs 115 pounds has to drink the same amout as someone who weighs 250. Maybe that’s just me.

Now my Dad can have lime flavored Gatoraid and some jello. That’s major. Before you had to fast totally.

He can not have the orange Gatoraid which is what I bought yesterday, but at least he can also have some chicken broth.

But I have another question.

Why can’t this test get easier?

I guess I keep coming back to the pillcam, which we have written about before.

My question is why can’t a pillcam be used for this test? Why can’t the colon be photographed by a pill cam from the inside, instead of the way it is being done now?

Here is more interesting information about the pillcam

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