Makes One Think Huh???  Also, don’t forget my new gardening book which is coming out this spring. Sure wouldn’t want you folks to miss it!

People with high cholesterol live the longest. This statement seems so incredible that it takes a long time to clear one´s brainwashed mind to fully understand its importance. Yet the fact that people with high cholesterol live the longest emerges clearly from many scientific papers. Consider the finding of Dr. Harlan Krumholz of the Department of Cardiovascular Medicine at Yale University, who reported in 1994 that old people with low cholesterol died twice as often from a heart attack as did old people with a high cholesterol.¹ Supporters of the cholesterol campaign consistently ignore his observation, or consider it as a rare exception, produced by chance among a huge number of studies finding the opposite.

But it is not an exception; there are now numerous findings that contradict the lipid hypothesis. To be more specific, most studies of old people have shown that high cholesterol is not a risk factor for coronary heart disease. This was the result of my search in the Medline database for studies addressing that question.² Eleven studies of old people came up with that result, and a further seven studies found that high cholesterol did not predict all-cause mortality either.

Now consider that more than 90 % of all cardiovascular disease is seen in people above age 60 also and that almost all studies have found that high cholesterol is not a risk factor for women.² This means that high cholesterol is only a risk factor for less than 5 % of those who die from a heart attack.

But there is more comfort for those who have high cholesterol; six of the studies found that total mortality was inversely associated with either total or LDL-cholesterol, or both. This means that it is actually much better to have high than to have low cholesterol if you want to live to be very old.

Years ago the old saying was if your tired get some sleep.  I kind of think, that most us folks today should have listened to our old Mom & Dad.

CHICAGO – Just one extra hour of sleep a day appears to lower the risk of developing calcium deposits in the arteries, a precursor to heart disease, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday.

The finding adds to a growing list of health consequences — including weight gain, diabetes, high blood pressure — linked to getting too little sleep.

“We found that people who on average slept longer were at reduced risk of developing new coronary artery calcifications over five years,” said Diane Lauderdale of the University of Chicago Medical Center, whose study appears in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

This is a link to what I have been telling folks since they brought them out on the market.  It starts off the video that is, with a advertising but let it play, it will soon start on to what I would like you folks to listen too.

GlobalTV.com | 16 x 9 – The Bigger Picture: Video

Interesting

An experimental infrared helmet has proven successful in not only halting but actually reversing the progression of dementia in at least one patient.

When 57-year-old businessman Clem Fennel began to rapidly lose the ability to function due to aggressive dementia, doctors told his family that nothing could stop his decline. Instead of giving up hope, however, they turned to an experimental device developed by British general practitioner Gordon Dogual. They flew Fennel to England, where Dougal began treating him with a helmet that radiates the brain with infrared light two times per day.

“Honestly I can tell you that within ten days, the deterioration was stopped; then we started to see improvements. He started to respond to people more quickly when they talked to him,” Fennell’s wife Vicky said.

“My husband, Clem, was fading away. It is as if he is back. His personality has started to show again. We are absolutely thrilled.”

Before receiving the treatment, Fennel was unable to complete regular daily tasks.

“When we go to the restaurant we usually have to order his meals for him, now he can order for himself,” Fennel’s daughter Maggie said. “Now we are okay about letting him go to the bank or the post office but he would not have been able to do that three weeks ago.”

The helmet has not yet been tested clinically, although a trial on 100 patients is scheduled to begin before the end of the year. Dougal noted that because the helmet has not been put through rigorous trials, there is no way to know if it will work the same on everyone.

“I made it clear to the Fennells that I didn’t know for a fact whether it would work or not, but the results are good,” Dougal said. “He was monosyllabic when I first saw him, but if I ring up now he will answer the phone. He didn’t have the verbal skills to do that three weeks ago.”