Thursday
I HAVE A QUESTION ???
Also, it is interesting to note that 11% of the people over 65 years of age DO NOT take any type of regular prescription medication.
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No stopping for this circus performer at 96!
 Las Vegas, Feb 08: Konrad Thurano, who was born almost a century ago in 1909, has entertained audiences around the world. He spent several years performing in South Africa, the Middle East and America. He worked in Las Vegas with the legendary Sammy Davis Jr., met Charlie Rivel and Charlie Chaplin, and performed with Bing Crosby.At the age of 96, most people would be, well, taking it easy. Definitely not doing pull-ups on the high wire on one finger! Konrad Thurano is the world's oldest circus performer – his mementoes show an adventurous career. The circus is his life, he says - he's spent much of his life doing a double act with his son. Konrad Thurano said, “If you want to do something, do it with love and passion or dont do it at all. If you are forced to do something, there is no love behind it. What if you do even just a small something with love and passion, it will be well received." Even after he retires in a few weeks' time, he wants to return as a freelance. As they say, it's in the blood. This story from the zeenews.com news service. click on the envelope to email this story to a friend |
Wednesday
Middle-aged 'still enjoying sex'
A study of 27,000 people aged 40 to 80 in 29 countries also found couples with greater equality in western Europe were more likely to enjoy their sex lives.
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Tuesday
Mediterranean diet 'reduces dementia risk'
US researchers looked at the diet and health of 2,200 people over four years.
The more people kept to a Mediterranean diet, the less likely they were to develop Alzheimer's, according to the Annals of Neurology study.
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Friday
Drug firms 'hype up diseases to boost sales'
Experts from around the world will meet in Australia today to discuss what they have labelled "disease-mongering".
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Heart disease and stroke
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Women 'outliving men worldwide'
In 2002 the World Health Organisation reported male life expectancy exceeded that of women in only six countries.
But research by Professor Danny Dorling at Sheffield University found this was no longer true anywhere in the world. (read more)
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Wednesday
Secret Traffic Ticket Trick - to Keep From Getting Points on Your License
According to our reader; "If you get a traffic ticket and you are going to get points on your license, then there is a secret little trick to ensure that you DO NOT get any points.
Here's how it works. When you get your fine, send in a check to pay for it. Now, if for example, the fine is say, $90.00, then make the check out for $94.00 or $93.50 or some small amount over the actual fine.
The city or county or state that gave you the ticket will then have to send you back a check for the difference. Now here is the trick! DO NOT CASH THE REFUND CHECK!! Throw it away!! Points are not assessed against your license until after all financial transactions are complete.
If you do not cash the check, then the transactions are NOT complete.
However, the city or county or state has received its money and they are happy and will not bother you anymore."
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Monday
Elderly give hotel new lease of life
The hotel near Interlaken has discovered a new, growing market: elderly people in need of care. It could be a solution for some of the other hundreds of hotels expected to slip into extinction over the next few years.
"It's almost like living in a hotel! I especially like the view," said Karl Schweingruber, an 83-year-old resident of the Schlössli nursing home. (read more)
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Sunday
CANADA: Anti-Aging Medical Corp. Now Listed on Pinksheets
"Our mission at Anti-Aging Medical Corporation is to improve the aging process. Dedicated to this purpose, we make one simple promise -- to provide quality products backed by science," says Rita Sung, President & CEO of the Company.
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Aging Ears Get Bionic Boost
If it works -- and early study results are promising -- it one day may help thousands of older Americans.
The key difference: Unlike regular cochlear implants, the hybrid model would let people keep their natural music appreciation even as it helps them hear speech more clearly again. (read more)
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80 Year-Old Billionaire Proud of Being Frugal
Editor's note: This guy is truly fantastic. There is also a book out about him titled, "Leading by Design; The IKEA Story" which should be required reading for anyone running a business.
GENEVA (Reuters) - IKEA founder Ingvar Kamprad, ranked 4th richest man in the world, drives a 15-year-old car and always flies economy class, in part to inspire his 90,000 employees worldwide to see the virtue of frugality.
The billionaire Swede, who turns 80 on March 30, explained his legendary habits during a rare television interview in Switzerland, his adoptive home for nearly 30 years.
His fortune was recently estimated at $28 billion by Forbes magazine -- trailing only Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, U.S. investor Warren Buffett and Mexican industrialist Carlos Slim. (read more)
Saturday
Hospital Investigated for "Patient Dumping"
But a surveillance tape shows otherwise.
A video camera captured a 63-year-old patient from Kaiser Permanente’s Bellflower hospital being dumped in a downtown area known as skid row, dressed only in a hospital gown and slippers.
A camera mounted outside the Union Rescue Mission shows Carol Ann Reyes, 63, of Gardena, Ca.,,a homeless person, walking from the direction of a taxi which had just driven away. She wandered the street for several minutes before staff members from the mission took her into their building. (read more)
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Marines Try To Recruit 78 Year-Old Woman
But at age 78, she thinks she may be just a little old to enlist in the Marine Corps.
The letter told her the corps could use her unique language skills, but also warned that life as a Marine would test her physical and mental abilities. (read more)
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Friday
Marshmallow Blow Gun - a great project for the kids or grandkids
Here is what you will need. 22 inches of 1/2 PVC pipe [1/2 is a the inside diameter, its actual outer diameter is closer to 7/8 inch], 2 end caps, 2 three way junctions, and 2 elbows. All of the parts will cost you $5 or less. (click here for pictures, directions and modifications)
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California man retires at age 100
A Los Angeles man who worked cleaning buses for the Metropolitan Transport Authority for 76 years has finally called it quits on his 100th birthday.
Arthur Winston was only absent for one day during his working life - when his wife died in 1988.
In 1996, Mr Winston was honoured by former US President Bill Clinton as "Employee of the Century". (read more)
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Tuesday
TV may be tied to poorer mental scores in older people
That doesn't mean that daytime television is a brain drain, they say, since it's not clear that there's a direct relationship between the two.
But the findings do point to some association between TV choices and intellectual function, and that could prove useful in evaluating older people for cognitive decline, according lead investigator Dr Joshua Fogel of Brooklyn College of the City University of New York. (read more)
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Sunday
Hormone offers promise of youth, risks
CHICAGO -- Injecting himself with human growth hormone six times a week and swallowing a handful of dietary supplements each day doesn't seem weird or excessive to 44-year-old Richard Weisman of Las Vegas.
"I have young children. I do it for them," said Weisman, the owner of a luxury and sports car dealership at Caesar's Palace. "I want to be healthy as I get older."
Not only that, he said, he also feels an increase in energy, muscle mass and libido. "My wife loves it and is going to start the program herself," he said. (read more)
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James Bond bikini babe turns 70
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Have You Considered Retiring Abroad???
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France Nabs Gun-Toting Pensioner
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Large doses of folate might help keep high blood pressure under control
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The TRUTH About Identy Theft
Many people believe identity theft is engineered by computer masterminds who prowl the Internet, surreptitiously stealing sensitive financial information. The truth is more mundane, and more disturbing.
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Where will ageing illegal US immigrants from Mexico retire ?
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Finns open playgrounds to senior citizens
It is the latest Finnish wheeze to get people more active. (read more)
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Sweden set for freeze-dry burials
Freeze-dried burials will be offered as an option in the town of Jonkoping by 2007, local officials have said. (read more)
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Older men 'happy with sex lives'
A team from Norway and the US surveyed 1,185 men aged between 20 and 79, and found more problems with impotence and declining sex drive in older men. (read more)
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Dark chocolate "good for the heart"
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