In the Age of Bountiful
“I don’t know. I am just living my life.”
By Karen Brenner
+Alzheimer's Reading Room
When you are paying attention, you can really learn a lot. But you have to be willing to really look, to really listen and to really, really pay attention. We are so easily distracted these days, living in the information age.
Subscribe to the Alzheimer's Reading Room
Email:
Many among us are constantly checking our twitter feed, our Facebook page, our text messages, our email (that would be me) our Linked In page, the Huffington Post, the on-line magazines, the games on our phones.
Whew, that’s a lot ...
Source: Alzheimer's Reading Room, The - October 1, 2013 Category: Dementia Authors: Bob DeMarco Source Type: blogs
Latest reading round-up
I start with a recommendation not from me.
I was sent ‘The Light Between Oceans’ by M. L. Steadman and passed it on to my mother as I knew it would be a long time until I got around to it. After doing nothing but read it from the moment she opened it, my mother commands that you read it. Yes, all of you. She is raving about it to everyone. So. Do as you’re told. I believe there’s a lighthouse, and a baby. (I haven’t read it yet because she is lending my copy around friends and neighbours. It will probably be 2017 before I get it back.)
I almost loved ‘Perfect’ by Rachel Joyce. It’s beautifully...
Source: Bah! to cancer - September 17, 2013 Category: Cancer Authors: Stephanie Tags: Bah! Tuesday Book books reading Source Type: blogs
Building Unity Farm - Preserving the Harvest
As Fall approaches in New England we're picking apples/fermenting cider, extracting honey, canning jams, preserving vegetables, and finishing our Fall mushroom inoculation.Here are a few scenes of the harvest - a very busy time of year.The Unity Farm orchard contains 36 trees - Apples, Cherries, Peaches, Pears, and Plums. We have 180 high bush blueberry bushes and 150 low bush blueberry bushes. We have elderberry, raspberry, and pecans. Here's an overview of the layout.Last weekend we picked Honeycrisp, McIntosh, and Asian Pear. We crushed the apples into cider and pasteurized ...
Source: Life as a Healthcare CIO - September 12, 2013 Category: Technology Consultants Source Type: blogs
The Peach State Sabotages Obamacare
According to local Socialist Jay Bookman, the REPUBLICAN's in Georgia are doing their best
to sabotage Obamacare.
How dastardly.
Georgia Insurance Commissioner Ralph Hudgeons recently bragged about "doing everything in our power to be an obstructionist" in the implementation of Obamacrap.
Hudgens went on to give an example of that obstructionist behavior, this one involving so-called “navigators” who are being hired to guide customers through the process of buying health insurance on marketplaces, or exchanges, set up under the federal program.
“We have passed a law that says that a navigator, which is a posit...
Source: InsureBlog - September 9, 2013 Category: Medical Lawyers and Insurers Source Type: blogs
Galavanting...
Helen came and gave mom a hot bath yesterday. Mom said it embarrassed her somewhat, but she couldn't have done it alone. Helen was just glad to help. Helen, mom, and I had peaches and cream before Helen left sitting out on the back porch. The peaches were fresh and delicious. The cream was sweet and thick."It ain't none of my business, baby," Helen said as she stood over the sink cutting up peaches earlier. "But your daddy shouldn't have left you momma like that and gone off galavanting with his cousins."I agreed with Helen wholeheartedly. He shouldn't have done what he did. It's water under the bridge now, though. Dad won...
Source: The 4th Avenue Blues - August 25, 2013 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Andrew Quixote Source Type: blogs
DIY Beauty Products From Fresh Farmer's Market Finds
If you stopped by a farmer's market this weekend (like we did!), you probably saw that the selection this time of year is totally bangin'. Ripe plums and peaches, heirloom tomatoes, herbs, greens -- they're all there, ready for the taking.But in-season produce is good for more than just this week's meals. After making that delicious recipe you've been craving, consider using up the rest of your bounty by making DIY treatments for your skin, hair and face. (Source: The ND Blog: Notes from the Nutritionista by Monica Reinagel, L.D.N., C.N.S.)
Source: The ND Blog: Notes from the Nutritionista by Monica Reinagel, L.D.N., C.N.S. - August 12, 2013 Category: Nutritionists and Food Scientists Tags: Beauty DIY DIY beauty beauty tips summer Source Type: blogs
The Healthful Vegan Diet
‘Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food.’ ~Hippocrates
By Leo Babauta
Eat plants. Those two words are the best things I’ve learned about diet, and if you stick to that, you’re likely be pretty healthy.
That said, eating a vegan diet (no animal products) doesn’t necessarily equate to a healthy diet, despite what many believe.
Yes, vegans on average are healthier and leaner than the average person. But that’s an average — there are unhealthy vegans.
How is that possible? You can eat lots of sweets, fried foods, processed foods, foods with white flour (br...
Source: Zen Habits - July 25, 2013 Category: Life Coaches Authors: zenhabits Tags: Health & Fitness Source Type: blogs
Thank You to John in Belmont and Others…
Thanks for the reassurance that what it going on with my mother is routine. I feared she may be in the nursing home permanently and she is too young for that. I have to say I have the best blog readers in the world! I went to see mom yesterday and she is looking pretty rough. She asked me to help her change her adult diaper. I got flustered. I hadn’t seen my mother naked in about twenty years. I dutifully pulled off the old diaper, wiped her clean, and pulled up another before getting her pajama pants back on. Families gotta do what families gotta do. “I should’ve never gotten that surgery,” mom told m...
Source: The 4th Avenue Blues - July 19, 2013 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Andrew Quixote Source Type: blogs
What to Eat to Beat The Heat
If you haven’t heard, it’s hot outside. Most of the country is experiencing a “Heat Wave” with temperatures soaring high and air quality dipping low. The country is covered in red – 43 States to be exact.
It’s officially the dog days of summer and we all can feel it. NBC Washington’s Tom Kierein said it best “You’ll feel like you’re covered in maple syrup today!” – Ha! Sounds fun. I’m sure the last thing you’re craving today is hot waffles!
Cool Down with Healthy Foods, Snacks, and Drinks
So what’s the best way to beat the heat? From popsic...
Source: Balanced Health and Nutrition Rebecca Scritchfield's Blog - July 17, 2013 Category: Nutritionists and Food Scientists Authors: rebeccascritchfield Tags: eating healthy food fruits nutrition recipes chilled soup kiwi chocolate soymilk coconut milk cold foods Core Foods creole stuffed tomatoes Gulf shrimp heat wave kiwi popcicles kiwifruit no cook foods pistachios shrimp ce Source Type: blogs
Clandestine Operations…
I drove down to Columbus, home of Fort Benning, to see my mother yesterday afternoon. It is only about a thirty minute drive on I-185. It’s a town of strip joints and tattoo parlors. “Mom? You’re talking funny,” I said worriedly as I sat next to her in a chair. Dad said earlier in the day that she got mixed up and thought she was at the airport in Atlanta. “It is all the morphine and painkillers they have me on,” my mother replied apologetically. Mom sounded like she had a dozen marbles in her mouth. A nurse came in and asked her pain levels on a scale of one to ten. Mom said she was at ten. This worri...
Source: The 4th Avenue Blues - July 15, 2013 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Andrew Quixote Source Type: blogs
Changing Beauty Standards
I was lunching with a friend who
mentioned having read a biography of Lucrezia Borgia, an Italian femme fatale, which
described the extreme lengths women went to in order to have a ghostly white
complexion, the epitome of beauty back in the 1400 and 1500s. Frankly, they make as much sense as what women do nowadays to be thin.
Here’s the skin beautifying
description that Sarah Bradford provides in LUCREZIA BORGIA—LIFE, LOVE AND
DEATH IN RENAISSANCE ITALY (page 146). “Foreheads were to be kept high, white
and serene by hair removal, by applying a past of mastic overnight. Perhaps the
most revolting beauty...
Source: Normal Eating - July 8, 2013 Category: Eating Disorders Authors: eatnormalnow Source Type: blogs
Avoid 'cookbook medicine' to put patients first
by Nancy Peed
When Peach Regional Medical Center (PRMC) was recognized by the Georgia Hospital Association's Partnership for Health and Accountability Core Measures Honor Roll, we viewed the award as a testimony to the exemplary patient care our employees provide on a daily basis.
I am a firm believer that healthcare workers want to do the right thing. They are personally concerned with doing what is best for the patient, and are motivated to achieve positive outcomes. That innate desire is the basis for implementing core measures.
Implementing best practices often fails, however, when we give physicians and clinician...
Source: hospital impact - June 21, 2013 Category: Health Managers Authors: Wendy Johnson Source Type: blogs
CASA Columbia Makes False Public Accusation; Needs to Get Its Facts Straight
In a letter to the editor published this week in the New York Times, CASA Columbia (formerly the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University) publicly accused Reynolds American and other tobacco companies of marketing flavored electronic cigarettes to children. In the letter, the Center writes: "E-cigarettes are a very effective delivery system for the addictive drug nicotine. Nicotine is particularly dangerous for our children, since early use increases the risk of addiction involving both nicotine and other drugs. With its enthusiastic endorsement of e-cigarettes, the tobacco industry is o...
Source: The Rest of the Story: Tobacco News Analysis and Commentary - June 19, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Source Type: blogs
The Best Unique Meatless Grilling Options
Meatless grilling extends way beyond just firing up some frozen veggie patties. (Although a good frozen veggie patty can be REALLY good sometimes, just saying.) You can pretty much throw anything on the grill and achieve that fabulous smoky summertime flavor we all know and love. Ever try a roasted veggie pizza on the grill? How about creamy avocados? From savory grilled asparagus to caramelized grilled peaches, there are endless ways to satisfy your #MeatlessMonday grilling cravings -- sans the usual burgers and dogs. Whip up one of these this weekend! (Source: The ND Blog: Notes from the Nutritionista by Monica Reinagel, L.D.N., C.N.S.)
Source: The ND Blog: Notes from the Nutritionista by Monica Reinagel, L.D.N., C.N.S. - June 10, 2013 Category: Nutritionists and Food Scientists Tags: Meatless Monday diet food grilling meatless meals nutrition superfoods Source Type: blogs
Too Softhearted For My Own Good
Grey Beard just caught me in his firm and wily grasp. I was leaving my parent’s house after seeing my niece and nephew and he was walking down the road behind the Piggly Wiggly in his Gilligan’s hat. He had just left his dilapidated house. A mile from my parent’s house. He waved and hooted and hollered as he saw me. I stopped and let him catch up to me. He came scuffling up to the car. “What’s up, man?” I asked as he got in. I noticed his beard is getting so bushy you could barely see his face. “Can you take me across the river to the Dollar General?” he asked without pleasantries. “H...
Source: The 4th Avenue Blues - May 27, 2013 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Andrew Quixote Source Type: blogs
