From
some of what I';ve read, there are distinct differences or changes in
how ADHD affects your life when you become an adult. I believe there
are more frustrations when it effects your memory or you find yourself
procrastinating or not being able to get a good night's sleep. When
you're a kid you don't put pressure on yourself to get things done or to
learn complex skills. As an adult it is on you to go to bed on time
and all the habits that comprise a worthwhile existence. So when you
have a condition that let's you waste time endlessly while forgetting
you've got things to do, it creates obstacles to overcome.
What
I read is you need to develop habits to keep yourself on track. Write
'to do lists' and refer to them frequently so you can keep to the course
you set for yourself. My goals need to get back to a more 'normal'
sleep pattern, keep up the walks around the block, use the bike more,
manage my time on the computer, i.e., spend less time 'surfing the net'
and generally get more balance with an emphasis on getting physically
healthy -- is the best way for me to
spend my limited energy.
Ham the Chimp, also known as Ham the Astrochimp, was the first
Hominidae to take a space flight. He was named after the Holloman
Aerospace Medical Center in New Mexico. He was launched from Cape
Canaveral on January 31, 1961 and returned to Earth unharmed except for a
bruised nose.
A DISASTER WAITING TO HAPPEN
Injuries at the library now have their very own diagnostic code in the
latest revision of International Classification of Diseases used by
physicians around the globe.
Many people thought that forgetting why you have walked into a room
(39%) might be a sign, which could happen to anyone. For a person with
dementia, it is not so much why they walked into a room that is
troubling, but the room itself seeming unfamiliar.
Warning signs for Dementia
Seek medical advice if your memory loss is affecting daily life and especially if you:
struggle to remember recent events, although you can easily recall things that happened in the past
find it hard to follow conversations or programmes on TV
forget the names of friends or everyday objects
cannot recall things you have heard, seen or read
lose the thread of what you are saying
have problems thinking and reasoning
feel anxious, depressed or angry
feel confused even when in a familiar environment or get lost on familiar journeys
find that other people start to notice or comment on your memory loss
The risk of dementia increases with age with one-in-six of those
over 80 having the degenerative disease. But it can strike even in
middle-age.
Your daily habits can have a big impact on your memory, focus, and mood. Here's what to do to help keep your mind sharp.
Use Your Brain
It's
true: Use it or lose it. Stretching your brain keeps your mind sharp.
People who are more active in mentally challenging activities are much
less likely to get Alzheimer's disease. Try these:
Read a book.
Go to a lecture.
Listen to the radio.
Play a game.
Visit a museum.
Learn a second language.
Mix Things Up
Remember
trying to talk backwards as a child? Researchers at Duke University
created exercises they call "neurobics," which challenge your brain to
think in new ways. Since your five senses are key to learning, use them
to exercise your mind. If you're right-handed, try using your left hand.
Drive to work by another route. Close your eyes and see if you can
recognize food by taste.
Work Out to Stay Sharp
Exercise,
especially the kind that gets your heart rate up like walking or
swimming, has mental pluses, too. Although experts aren't sure why,
physical activity might increase the blood supply to the brain and
improve links between brain cells. Staying active can help memory,
imagination, and even your ability to plan tasks.
A Healthy Diet Builds Brainpower
Do
your brain a favor and choose foods that are good for your heart and
waistline. Being obese in middle age makes you twice as likely to have
dementia later on. High cholesterol and high blood pressure raise your
chances, too. Try these easy tips:
Bake or grill foods instead of frying.
Cook with "good" fats like oils from nuts, seeds, and olives instead of cream, butter, and fats from meat.
Eat colorful fruits and veggies.
Watch What You Drink
You
know that too many drinks can affect your judgment, speech, movement,
and memory. But did you know alcohol can have long-term effects? Too
much drinking over a long period of time can shrink the frontal lobes of
your brain. And that damage can last forever, even if you quit
drinking. A healthy amount is considered one drink a day for women and
two for men.
Video Games Train Your Brain
Grab
that joystick. Several studies found that playing video games
stimulates the parts of the brain that control movement, memory,
planning, and fine motor skills. Some experts say gaming only makes you
better at gaming. The verdict may still be out, but why let kids have
all the fun?
Music Helps Your Brain
Thank
your mom for making you practice the piano. Playing an instrument early
in life pays off in clearer thinking when you're older. Musical
experience boosts mental functions that have nothing to do with music,
such as memory and ability to plan. It also helps with greater hand
coordination. Plus, it's fun -- and it's never too late to start.
Make Friends for Your Mind
Be
a people person! Talking with others actually sharpens your brain,
whether at work, at home, or out in your community. Studies show social
activities improve your mind. So volunteer, sign up for a class, or call
a friend.
Stay Calm
Too much stress can hurt your gray matter, which contains cells that store and process information. Here are some ways to chill:
Take deep breaths.
Find something that makes you laugh.
Listen to music.
Try yoga or meditation.
Find someone to talk to.
Sleep and the Brain
Get
enough sleep before and after you learn something new. You need sleep
on both ends. When you start out tired, it's hard to focus on things.
And when you sleep afterward, your brain files away the new info so you
can recall it later. A long night's rest is best for memory and your
mood. Adults need 7-8 hours of sleep every night.
Memory Helpers
Everybody
spaces out now and then. As you get older, you may not remember things
as easily as you used to. That's a normal part of aging. Some helpful
hints:
Write things down.
Use the calendar and reminder functions in your phone, even for simple things (Call Dad!).
Focus on one task at a time.
Learn new things one step at a time.
The Name Game
Have
trouble recalling names? Always repeat a person's name while you're
talking to them -- at least in your head, if not out loud. Or invent a
funny image or rhyme that you link with their name. For example, think
of Bob bobbing out in the ocean.
The Startups That Give You a Second Opinion on Costly Surgery
Employers say double-checking doctors' orders can control medical costs John Tozzi
August 20, 2015
Photograph: Getty Images
In the window before his kids wake up and he has to go to work, Dr. Gregory Gebauer helps people he's never met avoid needless surgery. That's when the Florida spine surgeon reads charts and examines MRI or X-ray scans referred to him through a company called Grand Rounds, a San Francisco startup that promises to save employers money and help their workers find better care. He often finds that patients have been given an inaccurate diagnosis or recommended for an operation unlikely to help them. "There’s certainly a time and place for surgery, but usually, at least in my practice, I recommend other things before jumping to surgery," says Gebauer, who has reviewed more than 50 cases from patients across the U.S.
The full-time orthopedic surgeon is one of an army of expert doctors who moonlight remotely for Grand Rounds, which has raised $106 million in venture capital, including a $55 million round announced today. The four-year-old company, which takes its name from the term for expert presentations doctors give to their colleagues, has signed such clients as Comcast, Costco, and Jamba Juice. About 60 percent of large employers plan to offer tools like second-opinion services or other advice to help patients make medical decisions in 2016, up from 48 percent this year, according to a survey of 140 large companies by the National Business Group on Health. Grand Rounds Chief Executive Owen Tripp says about two-thirds of all its reviews lead to changes in diagnosis or treatment. The number "still shocks me,” Tripp says. "Most of the frontline care we deliver today is either inadequate or ineffective."
Grand Rounds and its competition—companies such as Best Doctors, 2nd.MD, and Accolade—are trying to help employers deal with a problem that plagues American health care: wild deviations in care among different providers and regions. For example, patients in Bradenton, Fla., get a controversial spinal fusion surgery for lower-back problems almost 14 times more frequently than patients in Bangor, Me., according to data from the Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care, which tracks disparities in care.
That kind of variation is at least partly responsible for America’s outsize medical costs, which are higher per capita than anywhere else. It’s some combination of errors, differences in professional judgement, and a payment system that often creates incentives for doctors to prescribe treatments most lucrative for them. "There is a tremendous amount of misdiagnosis that goes on," says Lewis Levy, chief quality officer at Best Doctors, which contracts with 50,000 physicians to do remote second opinions for clients. The doctors are recommended by peers as leaders in their field.
Second-opinion services allow employers to take a softer approach than enforcing strict rules requiring workers to get permission before seeking costly treatments. Most companies that offer services like Grand Rounds and Best Doctors make them voluntary, and though there may be incentives to get a medical decision reviewed, workers can usually skip the second opinion or ignore it if they disagree. That makes the services seem less coercive than restrictive HMO rules. It also means companies sometimes struggle to get workers to use them. "One of the biggest knocks on this is no matter how much you communicate this, at the time the employee needs this, they may not remember that that service is available to them," says Shari Davidson, vice president of health-care cost and delivery at the National Business Group on Health, a nonprofit alliance of large employers.
A group of Pittsburgh-area school districts that buy health care together through the Allegheny County Schools Health Insurance Consortium began using Grand Rounds this spring. Outreach through mailings, a quarterly magazine, and direct prompts from Grand Rounds based on peoples’ medical claims have gotten 15 people to use the second-opinion service so far, says Jan Klein, the group’s trustee chairman. "We can’t force it on people," she says. "Well, we could. But we don’t."
At least one employee avoided a surgery after the expert reviewer "said absolutely not a good thing to do, not justified, no research that this operation will help this person," Klein says. Though she expects the service to save money, Klein says getting people the proper diagnosis and treatment is more important. "Sometimes their costs are more than it would have been under the wrong diagnosis," she says, "but they would have been treated for the wrong thing."
Correction: Corrects number of people who have used the second-opinion service through the Allegheny County Schools Health Insurance Consortium
A
new, engineered light-activated protein holds promise for restoring
sight to millions of people blinded by progressive degeneration of
light-sensing cells in the outer retina. As reported in research published by PLOS Biology,
the method is the first to overcome the obstacles of low light
sensitivity and incompatibility with normal signaling mechanisms that
exist with other genetic approaches to restore function in these cells.
Sonja Kleinlogel’s team at the University of Bern engineered a protein
that responds to daylight and subsequently activates a signaling pathway
in healthy cells in the inner retina that normally don’t respond to
light. The chimeric protein includes components of the photopigment
melanopsin and the glutamate receptor mGluR5.
The researchers say their approach meets several criteria for a
potential gene therapy for patients with photoreceptor degeneration. In
mice, it restores light sensitivity at environmental light levels; it is
physiologically compatible with no toxic or immunogenic side effects;
and with the current state of intravitreal injection, it is a minimally
invasive and safe technology.
With a globally aging population, the availability of new approaches to
treat diseases associated with aging is increasingly important.
Focusing the Brain on Better Vision
By JAN HOFFMAN APRIL 6, 2015 5:16 PM April 6, 2015
As adults age, vision deteriorates. One common type of decline is in contrast sensitivity, the ability to distinguish gradations of light to dark, making it possible to discern where one object ends and another begins.
When an older adult descends a flight of stairs, for example, she may not tell the edge of one step from the next, so she stumbles. At night, an older driver may squint to see the edge of white road stripes on blacktop. Caught in the glare of headlights, he swerves.
But new research suggests that contrast sensitivity can be improved with brain-training exercises. In a study published last month in Psychological Science, researchers at the University of California, Riverside, and Brown University showed that after just five sessions of behavioral exercises, the vision of 16 people in their 60s and 70s significantly improved.
After the training, the adults could make out edges far better. And when given a standard eye chart, a task that differed from the one they were trained on, they could correctly identify more letters.
“There’s an idea out there that everything falls apart as we get older, but even older brains are growing new cells,” said Allison B. Sekuler, a professor of psychology, neuroscience and behavior at McMaster University in Ontario, who was not involved in the new study. “You can teach an older brain new tricks.”
The training improved contrast sensitivity in 16 young adults in the study as well, although the older subjects showed greater gains. That is partly because the younger ones, college students, already had reasonably healthy vision and there was not as much room for improvement.
Before the training, the vision of each adult, young and older, was assessed. The exercises were fine-tuned at the beginning for each individual so researchers could measure improvements, said Dr.G. John Andersen, the project’s senior adviser and a psychology professor at the University of California, Riverside.
During each session, the subjects watched 750 striped images that were rapidly presented on a computer screen with subtle changes in the visual “noise” surrounding them — like snow on a television. The viewer indicated whether the images were rotating clockwise or counterclockwise. The subject would hear a beep for every correct response.
Each session took an hour and a half. The exercises were taxing, although the subjects took frequent breaks. But after five sessions, the subjects had learned to home in more precisely on the images and to filter out the distracting visual noise. After the training, the older adults performed as well as those 40 years younger, before their own training.
The older participants were also better able to make out letters on an eye chart at reading distance, although not one 10 feet away. The younger students were better able to see the distant eye chart, but not the closer one.
“We think that a behavioral intervention where learning is going on changes brain structure in older adults,” Dr. Andersen said.
In the absence of a disease like glaucoma or changes in the retina and optic nerve, contrast sensitivity is processed by the brain’s visual cortex. This study suggests that certain areas of the brain can be strengthened. “It means the visual system has a high degree of plasticity, even in old age,” Dr. Andersen said.
Dr. Andersen and his colleagues, including Denton DeLoss, a graduate student and the paper’s lead author, say they do not know how long the effects of this modest intervention will last. But an earlier study in which older adults received training to sharpen their ability to discern texture showed that the improvement was sustained for at least three months.
Dr. Andersen said that as people aged, the random firing of neurons in the brain’s visual system increased, creating a kind of internal noise. At the same time, the aging brain struggles harder with external visual noise, such as snowflakes in a blizzard that obscure words on a road sign.
The latest study’s exercises were designed to train adults to filter such external visual noise so they could better discern edges of contrast. “It’s possible that the brain might simultaneously have been trained to reduce internalized noise,” Dr. Andersen said.
Researchers are increasingly focused on perceptual learning, the brain’s ability to discriminate among stimuli — training the ear, for example, to distinguish between Shostakovich and Bartok, or the palate to discern a cabernet sauvignon from a pinot noir. There is also much research on the aging brain. But until now, few scientists have thought to examine the possibilities for improving perceptual learning in older adults.
“These researchers are leading the charge,” Dr. Sekuler said.
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A version of this article appears in print on 04/07/2015, on page D5 of theNewYork edition with the headline: Focusing the Brain on Better Vision.
"Tuberculosis is the disease we thought HIV would be in the '80s. A
disease you could get and die from that was aerosolized and spread
through the air," Eric Goosby, the U.N. special envoy on tuberculosis,
said at a United Nations Foundation briefing in July. "With TB, you can
get it standing in a line when you go to the grocery store or standing
in line for the movies."
The highly infectious bacteria that
cause TB spread in tiny droplets of saliva and mucous that are expelled
when an infected person coughs. They can float in the air for hours.
About one-third of the world's
population is infected with tuberculosis. The lucky ones have strong
enough immune systems to wall off the TB bacteria, forcing it to lie
dormant. The unlucky ones -- about 10 percent of those infected -- come
down with a wracking cough, overwhelming weakness, weight loss and
persistent fatigue.
If left untreated, two-thirds of people with active TB die. It is the No. 2 single-agent infectious killer in the world (behind HIV/AIDS), according to the World Health Organization, and the No. 1 killer of those infected with HIV/AIDS.
Is happiness a skill? Modern neuroscientific research and the wisdom of ancient contemplative traditions converge in suggesting that happiness is the product of skills that can be enhanced through training and such training exemplifies how transforming the mind can change the brain.
Kent Berridge, Richie Davidson, and Daniel Gilbert speak at the Aspen Ideas Festival
Transcribed from The Strangest Secret audio program by Earl Nightingale
Some years ago, the late Nobel prize-winning Dr. Albert Schweitzer was asked by a reporter, “Doctor, what’s wrong with men today?” The great doctor was silent a moment, and then he said, “Men simply don’t think!”
It’s about this that I want to talk with you. We live today in a golden age. This is an era that humanity has looked forward to, dreamed of, and worked toward for thousands of years. We live in the richest era that ever existed on the face of the earth … a land of abundant opportunity for everyone.
However, if you take 100 individuals who start even at the age of 25, do you have any idea what will happen to those men and women by the time they’re 65? These 100 people believe they’re going to be successful. They are eager toward life, there is a certain sparkle in their eye, an erectness to their carriage, and life seems like a pretty interesting adventure to them.
But by the time they’re 65, only one will be rich, four will be financially independent, five will still be working, and 54 will be broke and depending on others for life’s necessities.
Only five out of 100 make the grade! Why do so many fail? What has happened to the sparkle that was there when they were 25? What has become of the dreams, the hopes, the plans … and why is there such a large disparity between what these people intended to do and what they actually accomplished?
THE DEFINITION OF SUCCESS
First, we have to define success and here is the best definition I’ve ever been able to find:
“Success is the progressive realization of a worthy ideal.”
A success is the school teacher who is teaching because that’s what he or she wants to do. A success is the entrepreneur who start his own company because that was his dream and that’s what he wanted to do. A success is the salesperson who wants to become the best salesperson in his or her company and sets forth on the pursuit of that goal.
A success is anyone who is realizing a worthy predetermined ideal, because that’s what he or she decided to do … deliberately. But only one out of 20 does that! The rest are “failures.”
Rollo May, the distinguished psychiatrist, wrote a wonderful book called Man’s Search for Himself, and in this book he says: “The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice … it is conformity.” And there you have the reason for so many failures. Conformity and people acting like everyone else, without knowing why or where they are going.
We learn to read by the time we’re seven. We learn to make a living by the time we’re 30. Often by that time we’re not only making a living, we’re supporting a family. And yet by the time we’re 65, we haven’t learned how to become financially independent in the richest land that has ever been known. Why? We conform! Most of us are acting like the wrong percentage group and the 95 who don’t succeed.
GOALS
Have you ever wondered why so many people work so hard and honestly without ever achieving anything in particular, and why others don’t seem to work hard, yet seem to get everything? They seem to have the “magic touch.” You’ve heard people say, “Everything he touches turns to gold.” Have you ever noticed that a person who becomes successful tends to continue to become more successful? And, on the other hand, have you noticed how someone who’s a failure tends to continue to fail?
The difference is goals.
People with goals succeed because they know where they’re going. It’s that simple.
Failures, on the other hand, believe that their lives are shaped by circumstances … by things that happen to them … by exterior forces.
Think of a ship with the complete voyage mapped out and planned. The captain and crew know exactly where the ship is going and how long it will take and it has a definite goal. And 9,999 times out of 10,000, it will get there.
Now let’s take another ship and just like the first and only let’s not put a crew on it, or a captain at the helm. Let’s give it no aiming point, no goal, and no destination. We just start the engines and let it go. I think you’ll agree that if it gets out of the harbor at all, it will either sink or wind up on some deserted beach and a derelict. It can’t go anyplace because it has no destination and no guidance.
It’s the same with a human being. However, the human race is fixed, not to prevent the strong from winning, but to prevent the weak from losing. Society today can be likened to a convoy in time of war. The entire society is slowed down to protect its weakest link, just as the naval convoy has to go at the speed that will permit its slowest vessel to remain in formation.
That’s why it’s so easy to make a living today. It takes no particular brains or talent to make a living and support a family today. We have a plateau of so-called “security.” So, to succeed, all we must do is decide how high above this plateau we want to aim.
Throughout history, the great wise men and teachers, philosophers, and prophets have disagreed with one another on many different things. It is only on this one point that they are in complete and unanimous agreement and the key to success and the key to failure is this:
WE BECOME WHAT WE THINK ABOUT
This is The Strangest Secret! Now, why do I say it’s strange, and why do I call it a secret? Actually, it isn’t a secret at all. It was first promulgated by some of the earliest wise men, and it appears again and again throughout the Bible. But very few people have learned it or understand it. That’s why it’s strange, and why for some equally strange reason it virtually remains a secret.
Marcus Aurelius, the great Roman Emperor, said: “A man’s life is what his thoughts make of it.”
Disraeli said this: “Everything comes if a man will only wait … a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and nothing can resist a will that will stake even existence for its fulfillment.”
William James said: “We need only in cold blood act as if the thing in question were real, and it will become infallibly real by growing into such a connection with our life that it will become real. It will become so knit with habit and emotion that our interests in it will be those which characterize belief.”
He continues, ” … only you must, then, really wish these things, and wish them exclusively, and not wish at the same time a hundred other incompatible things just as strongly.”
My old friend Dr. Norman Vincent Peale put it this way: “If you think in negative terms, you will get negative results. If you think in positive terms, you will achieve positive results.”
George Bernard Shaw said: “People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can’t find them, make them.”
Well, it’s pretty apparent, isn’t it? We become what we think about.
A person who is thinking about a concrete and worthwhile goal is going to reach it, because that’s what he’s thinking about.
Conversely, the person who has no goal, who doesn’t know where he’s going, and whose thoughts must therefore be thoughts of confusion, anxiety, fear, and worry will thereby create a life of frustration, fear, anxiety and worry. And if he thinks about nothing … he becomes nothing.
AS YE SOW, SO SHALL YE REAP
The human mind is much like a farmer’s land. The land gives the farmer a choice. He may plant in that land whatever he chooses. The land doesn’t care what is planted. It’s up to the farmer to make the decision.
The mind, like the land, will return what you plant, but it doesn’t care what you plant. If the farmer plants too seeds and one a seed of corn, the other nightshade, a deadly poison, waters and takes care of the land, what will happen?
Remember, the land doesn’t care. It will return poison in just as wonderful abundance as it will corn. So up come the two plants and one corn, one poison as it’s written in the Bible, “As ye sow, so shall ye reap. The human mind is far more fertile, far more incredible and mysterious than the land, but it works the same way. It doesn’t care what we plant … success … or failure. A concrete, worthwhile goal … or confusion, misunderstanding, fear, anxiety, and so on. But what we plant it must return to us.
The problem is that our mind comes as standard equipment at birth. It’s free. And things that are given to us for nothing, we place little value on. Things that we pay money for, we value.
The paradox is that exactly the reverse is true.
Everything that’s really worthwhile in life came to us free and our minds, our souls, our bodies, our hopes, our dreams, our ambitions, our intelligence, our love of family and children and friends and country. All these priceless possessions are free.
But the things that cost us money are actually very cheap and can be replaced at any time. A good man can be completely wiped out and make another fortune. He can do that several times. Even if our home burns down, we can rebuild it. But the things we got for nothing, we can never replace. Our mind can do any kind of job we assign to it, but generally speaking, we use it for little jobs instead of big ones. So decide now. What is it you want? Plant your goal in your mind. It’s the most important decision you’ll ever make in your entire life. Do you want to excel at your particular job? Do you want to go places in your company … in your community? Do you want to get rich?
All you have got to do is plant that seed in your mind, care for it, work steadily toward your goal, and it will become a reality.
It not only will, there’s no way that it cannot. You see, that’s a law and like the laws of Sir Isaac Newton, the laws of gravity. If you get on top of a building and jump off, you’ll always go down and you’ll never go up.
And it’s the same with all the other laws of nature. They always work. They’re inflexible.
Think about your goal in a relaxed, positive way.
Picture yourself in your mind’s eye as having already achieved this goal.
See yourself doing the things you will be doing when you have reached your goal. Every one of us is the sum total of our own thoughts.
We are where we are because that’s exactly where we really want or feel we deserve to be and whether we’ll admit that or not.
Each of us must live off the fruit of our thoughts in the future, because what you think today and tomorrow and next month and next year and will mold your life and determine your future. You’re guided by your mind.
I remember one time I was driving through e a s t e r n Arizona and I saw one of those giant earth-moving machines roaring along the road with what looked like 30 tons of dirt in it and a tremendous, incredible machine and and there was a little man perched way up on top with the wheel in his hands, guiding it. As I drove along I was struck by the similarity of that machine to the human mind.
Just suppose you’re sitting at the controls of such a vast source of energy.
Are you going to sit back and fold your arms and let it run itself into a ditch?
Or are you going tokeep both hands firmly on the wheel and control and direct this power to a specific, worthwhile purpose?
It’s up to you. You’re in the driver’s seat.
You see, the very law that gives us success is a double-edged sword. We must control our thinking. The same rule that can lead people to lives of success, wealth, happiness, and all the things they ever dreamed of and that very same law can lead them into the gutter. It’s all in how they use it … for good or for bad.
That is The Strangest Secret! Do what the experts since the dawn of recorded history have told us to do: pay the price, by becoming the person you want to become.
It’s not nearly as difficult as living unsuccessfully. The moment you decide on a goal to work toward, you’re immediately a successful person and you are then in that rare group of people who know where they’re going.
Out of every hundred people, you belong to the top five.
Don’t concern yourself too much with how you are going to achieve your goal. Leave that completely to a power greater than yourself.
All you have to do is know where you’re going. The answers will come to you of their own accord, and at the right time.
Start today. You have nothing to lose and but you have your whole life to win. 30-DAY ACTION IDEAS FOR PUTTING THE STRANGEST SECRET TO WORK FOR YOU: For the next 30-days follow each of these steps every day until you have achieved your goal. 1. Write on a card what it is you want more that anything else. It may be more money. Perhaps you’d like to double your income or make a specific amount of money. It may be a beautiful home. It may be success at your job. It may be a particular position in life. It could be a more harmonious family. Write down on your card specifically what it is you want. Make sure it’s a single goal and clearly defined.You needn’t show it to anyone, but carry it with you so that you can look at it several times a day. Think about it in a cheerful, relaxed, positive way each morning when you get up, and immediately you have something to work for and something to get out of bed for, something to live for. Look at it every chance you get during the day and just before going to bed at night.
As you look at it, remember that you must become what you think about, and since you’re thinking about your goal, you realize that soon it will be yours. In fact, it’s really yours the moment you write it down and begin to think about it.
2. Stop thinking about what it is you fear.
Each time a fearful or negative thought comes into your mind, replace it with a mental picture of your positive and worthwhile goal.
And there will come a time when you’ll feel like giving up. It’s easier for a human being to think negatively than positively. That’s why only five percent are successful! You must begin now to place yourself in that group. “Act as though it were impossible to fail,” as Dorothea Brande said. No matter what your goal, if you’ve kept your goal before you every day, you’ll wonder and marvel at this new life you’ve found.
3. Your success will always be measured by the quality and quantity of service you render.
Most people will tell you that they want to make money, without understanding this law. The only people who make money work in a mint. The rest of us must earn money. This is what causes those who keep looking for something for nothing, or a free ride, to fail in life. Success is not the result of making money; earning money is the result of success and and success is in direct proportion to our service. Most people have this law backwards. It’s like the man who stands in front of the stove and says to it: “Give me heat and then I’ll add the wood.” How many men and women do you know, or do you suppose there are today, who take the same attitude toward life? There are millions. We’ve got to put the fuel in before we can expect heat. Likewise, we’ve got to be of service first before we can expect money. Don’t concern yourself with the money. Be of service … build … work … dream … create! Do this and you’ll find there is no limit to the prosperity and abundance that will come to you.
Don’t start your test until you’ve made up your mind to stick with it. If you should fail during your first 30 days and by that I mean suddenly find yourself overwhelmed by negative thoughts and simply start over again from that point and go 30 more days. Gradually, your new habit will form, until you find yourself one of that wonderful minority to whom virtually nothing is impossible. Above all … don’t worry! Worry brings fear, and fear is crippling.
The only thing that can cause you to worry during your test is trying to do it all yourself. Know that all you have to do is hold your goal before you; everything else will take care of itself.
Take this 30-day test, then repeat it … then repeat it again. Each time it will become more a part of you until you’ll wonder how you could have ever have lived any other way.
Live this new way and the floodgates of abundance will open and pour over you more riches than you may have dreamed existed. Money? Yes, lots of it.
But what’s more important, you’ll have peace … you’ll be in that wonderful minority who lead calm, cheerful, successful lives.
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Some studies show that people with gum disease are more likely have heart disease than those with healthy gums. Researchers aren't sure why that is; gum disease isn't proven to cause other diseases. But it makes sense to take care of your mouth like you do the rest of your body.
Tooth Loss and Kidney Disease
Adults without teeth may be more likely to have chronic kidney disease than those who still have teeth. Exactly how kidney disease and periodontal disease are linked is not 100% clear yet. But researchers suggest that chronic inflammation may be the common thread. So taking care of your teeth and gums may reduce your risk of developing chronic kidney problems.
Some studies show that people with gum disease are more likely have heart disease than those with healthy gums. Researchers aren't sure why that is; gum disease isn't proven to cause other diseases. But it makes sense to take care of your mouth like you do the rest of your body.
Tooth Loss and Kidney Disease
Adults without teeth may be more likely to have chronic kidney disease than those who still have teeth. Exactly how kidney disease and periodontal disease are linked is not 100% clear yet. But researchers suggest that chronic inflammation may be the common thread. So taking care of your teeth and gums may reduce your risk of developing chronic kidney problems.
Dr. Gifford-Jones: Potassium — Like sex and money, just the right amount
A tropical fruit smoothie with almond and ginger provides potassium, fibre and vitamins B-6, A and C. (Adrian Lam / Victoria Times Colonist)City Desk
Apr 23, 2014 - 6:00 PM EST
Last Updated: Apr 23, 2014 - 4:38 PM EST
“Why would anyone be so foolish to carry on this asinine habit for so long?”
This was my immediate reaction to an article, published by LiveScience and reported at the European Heart Rhythm Association. In effect, the article shows how a most innocent habit, carried out for a long period, can send you to hospital.
A woman living in Monaco was admitted to emergency following a fainting episode. She had no family history of heart problems. Doctors quickly discovered that she had an irregular heart rate. When results of the blood study were reported they were shocked to find her blood potassium was in the hazardous range. But why would it be so low?
A detailed questioning revealed that she had consumed nothing but soda, particularly cola, for half her life. To their amazement she admitted never having touched a glass of water for 16 years! Do the math, and it shows she had drunk two litres (over half a gallon) of cola daily.
So how much do the rest of us drink?
Dr. Kenneth Woliner, A U.S holistic physician, reports in Best Life Herbals, that the average American drinks about 170 litres (45 gallons) of soda a year. One would have to be living on Mars to not know that the excessive consumption of cola does not constitute a healthy lifestyle. High levels of glucose, fructose and caffeine combine to rob the body of potassium.
Dr. David Young, professor of physiology at the University of Mississippi, once remarked, “potassium is like sex and money, you can never get too much.” That’s not entirely true as too much can also kill you. But by linking it to sex and money, he got his point across that potassium is a very important mineral.
Potassium is responsible for many functions in the body and must be maintained within a strict range. One of its key tasks is to control the electrical impulse that governs heart rate. Too much potassium can bring the heart to a lethal halt. Too little triggers muscle weakness and an erratic heart rate.
This particular patient was lucky that all she suffered was abnormal rhythm of the heart. Another study from Hawaii reports that low blood levels of potassium can be associated with stroke, one of the leading causes of death in this country.
Dr. Deborah Green, a researcher at Queen’s Medical Centre in Hawaii, followed 5,888 men and women ages 65 and over for eight years. Her conclusion? Patients with low levels of potassium were twice as likely to suffer from “ischemic stroke,” the type of stroke in which a blood clot cuts off the supply of blood to the brain.
But she had worse news for those who had an irregular heart rate, low blood potassium and were also taking diuretics (water pills to increase the frequency of urination) to decrease blood pressure. These people faced 10 times the risk of stroke.
So how does potassium protect against stroke? Studies show that potassium, like magnesium, has a potent effect on blood pressure. For instance, researchers have caused blood pressure to increase by simply restricting potassium intake for a little as 10 days. So taking potassium to prevent hypertension is one way to decrease the risk of stroke.
But Dr. Green believes potassium’s effect on blood pressure isn’t the entire solution. It is well known that stroke and coronary attack often occur when there is no evidence of hypertension, narrowed arteries or elevated blood cholesterol. The blood simply forms a clot due to an abnormality in the blood clotting process. It’s believed that potassium can also help to decrease the risk of this happening.
Fortunately, there are more ways to obtain 4,000 milligrams of potassium daily than by eating spinach. Three glasses of milk provide 1,200 mg, a potato with skin 844 mg, banana 450 mg, and there’s potassium in nuts, citrus fruits, meat, fruits and leafy vegetables.
Hopefully the lady from Monaco has learned the lesson of Aristotle’s Doctrine of the Golden Mean. Not too much and not too little provides greater health than a daily diet of cola.
