Health concerns
Time for another break from my philosophy
I’ve come upon two health pages with interesting
statistics
How about dementia?
Dementia connected to
cholesterol.
How is it connected to the
heart? Cholesterol. A 2016 meta-analysis looked at 17 studies between 1996 and
2014, encompassing more than 23,000 people, and determined that the data
suggests having high total cholesterol in middle-age increased the risk of
Alzheimer’s later in life.
“If someone comes in with
high cholesterol and we’re figuring out why, we can check the genetic markers.
If we find that they have this modified gene, this increases the risk of
Alzheimer’s/
There are other ways that
heart disease can cause dementia. “Heart failure,. If heart function is low,
the brain isn’t getting enough blood. That can cause some cognitive
dysfunction,” she says, though she adds that it might not be severe enough to
truly call it dementia.”
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So, how is your
cholesterol? High cholesterol is linked to dementia!!
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Diet soda and dementia
“Artificially flavored drinks like diet soda may
be linked to a higher risk of stroke and dementia, according to a 2017 study
published in Stroke, a journal from the American Heart Association.”
“Those who drank at least one
diet soda per day were about three-times more likely to experience an ischemic
stroke—one caused by a blockage of blood vessels supplying brain
tissue—compared with people who avoided these beverages. The study concluded
that one daily diet soda was linked to higher rates of dementia as well,
although other risk factors like obesity or diabetes also could be to blame.”
So, a diet soda is about
three-times more likely to have a stroke!! One diet soda a day is linked
to higher rates of dementia!!!
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So, another culprit - diet
soda - is linked to stroke - and even dementia.
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Fortunately, I have never
much of a problem with cholesterol. And, I rarely drink soda and even
rarer drink a diet soda.
How about you? Does
this news challenge you?
What do you think?
Karen
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