Avoiding Dementia

The Times tells us how to avoid dementia:

The main risk factors identified by Kivipelto and colleagues virtually mirror those already known for cardio-vascular disease: obesity, hypertension and high cholesterol levels. Having any one of these risk factors doubles a person's chance of developing dementia--and having all three increases their chances by six times, said Kivipelto.

The study was performed in Finland so there is no useful data addressing Bush Derangement Syndrome.

Comments

[JJ]

Dementia?

I'd just like to say this...

I'd just like to say...

Multi-tasking has always been a problem for me. Like, you know, when one task comes too closely after another.

[Other Tom]

That explains Michael Moore and Lowell Weicker.

[Soylent Red]

BDS? I'm sure it has to do with high blood levels of THC.

[clarice]

Lucianne just posted an article indicating a poll shows 1/3 of Americans think the Administration staged 9/11 to make it possible to go to war. This dementia problem seems more serious than I thought.

[richard mcenroe]

Ya know what's even more fun than dementia? Being a carrier. Right, Hamsher?

[Syl]

Obesity, hypertension, high cholesterol.

Will these people just shut up already. They haven't a clue. When in doubt they pull their favorite words out of a bag and blame them for the world's ills.

This is a war on food, plain and simple. The busybodies are arming themselves against your refrigerator.

Where's the antiwar movement when you really need it?

[Dwilkers]

Cause and effect. Obesity etc may indicate a tendency towards dementia in later years but that doesn't mean obesity etc causes dementia, although that thought might be a bit too complex for reporters at the Times.

I was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes a few weeks ago. From everything you read you'd think this is pretty much fat-American disease, but I am 5-9 185lbs. Depending on what chart you look at I am either on the high end of acceptable weight or marginally overweight. Another indicator for that disorder is cholesterol, and I do have high cholesterol. But the key indicator I have is a family history of diabetes.

Anyway, my point is much of this sort of thing makes little scientific sense once you look past the headlines.

[PeterUK]

"Obesity, hypertension, high cholesterol."

Well that explains Ted Kennedy,but how does it explain Hezbollah?

[Aaron Adams]

If "Bush Derangement Syndrome" is characterized as an inability to say anything critical of the worst US President in modern history, then this blog is symptomatic.

[Jane]

Actually Aaron it's characterized by people who feel the need to criticize the people who support our President in a thread about cholesteral and dementia.

Get it?

[cathyf]

Wait a minute -- I thought that obesity, hypertension and high cholesterol were the surefire ways to die well before reaching an age where you need to worry about Alzheimers!

cathy :-)

[PeterUK]

Jane,
"Actually Aaron it's characterized by people who feel the need to criticize the people who support our President in a thread about cholesteral and dementia."

Dementia will do that to them.

[Forbes]

Geez, Aaron, I think TM and the other posters here on JOM play it pretty straight with Jimmah Cahrta.

[Neo]

Remember all tha stuff about catsup being a vegetable. Get this, court rules on beer.

[maryrose]

I guess my mind is safe- I am 0 for 3 on the factors listed plus I keep my mind active by reading and posting on this blog.

[sophy]

Welcome to our game world, my friend asks me to buy some 12sky gold .