What is dementia? Is it a specific disease or is it the loss of cognitive function: memory, processing, reasoning? Actually it is both. There are various diagnostic names that the medical profession uses when the patients are assessed. The main thing we need to remember is that
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I love root vegetables of all kinds. One of my favorites is the lovely beet. They taste good in salads, as a garnish, or, my favorite, roasted in the oven. The beet greens are fabulous juiced, and they make the juice an appealing red color. The only
Read more →Zinc is a micro nutrient, and as such could easily be missing from our diets. Reports from 2015 show that 1 in 7 of us are deficient. Why is this important? Zinc impacts the behavior of more than 300 enzymes our bodies need. Why is that important?
Read more →There is quite a bit of research regarding dementia and Alzheimer’s diseases. Many of the studies are pointing to High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS) as the main contributor to brain dysfunction. HFCS is different from natural sugar found in fruits and vegetables. It is considered a ‘free
Read more →Corn is the most highly subsidized crop grown in the United States. That makes corn products very economical for the consumer and industrial farmers. Farmers use High Fructose Corn Syrup as a sweetener. There are several problems with this: 92% of corn is genetically modified Mercury (a
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