Her 401(k) Contributions Vanished—and Her Company Had No Answers
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Antidepressant Side Effects Vary Widely by Drug, Study Finds
A new study compared the effects of 30 drugs on cholesterol, blood pressure and weight gain.
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Mental exercise can reverse a brain change linked to aging, study finds
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Interesting. Has anyone here tried any of these programs?
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Thanks for the link. I’m going to have my husband try it.
Ha, I told my husband about this, and he told me he had ordered $30 worth of a supplement that is supposed to help memory. He said, “It seems legitimate because Sanjay Gupta endorses it!” So I Googled it and in about two seconds found this video:
Ugh. My dad is falling for scams and now my husband is. He’s supposed to ask me before he purchases anything out of the ordinary and he didn’t this time.
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Re the brain exercises:
Half the participants spent 30 minutes a day playing computer games like solitaire and Candy Crush.
The others spent the same amount of time each day doing cognitive exercises that are part of the scientifically tested program BrainHQ. The program challenges users to remember the type and location of items that appear and disappear with increasing speed.
“It’s really targeted at attention and speed of processing, and it kind of pushes you to the limit,” de Villers-Sidani says.
“I was not sure we would find anything, to be honest,” de Villers-Sidani says.
But they did. In people who played games like solitaire, acetylcholine levels were unchanged. But in people who did cognitive training, there was a significant increase.
I wonder if something more active like birding would have a similar effect. I’m not really a birder, but I have been mildly interested in birds most of my life (my mom knew all her bird feeder birds). In birding you are definitely concentrating on movement and sound and discriminating/identifying in a way that is more than playing solitaire.
Maybe I should take it up more seriously!
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NY Times opinion by Roger Rosenblatt
I’d Like to Stay 85 Forever
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Just saying I’d pick an age a lot younger than 85 to stay at…
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I’m guessing that you’d have to wait and see how you feel at 85.
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I have to admit that this article cracked me up. What a beautiful measurement of insincerity and/or laziness. Could be either. Most likely both.
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So, this is the number two toilet?
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lol I guess so.
Gift Link. It’s a very interesting article. It’s good to know there’s a scientific explanation for why I hate pickleball WHACKS so much. It also gives me a little insight into my son’s hatred of some sounds (misophonia).
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