Early dementia causes weight loss
Women show signs of physical change a decade before mental decline.
Researchers have found a simple physical symptom that accompanies the early, subtle brain changes that lead to dementia. Women who will go on to develop dementia begin to lose weight at least ten years before diagnosis, say researchers at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.
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I have been reassured by this article .
I write here to make you aware of the undercurrent atmosphere and neglect in one care home N Ireland . THis is a personal visit.
I have just been asked to leave a nursing home ,because I enquired quite reasonably as to where a residents dentures had been ... the resident had asked me to; she had lost an emaciating amount of weight...over 4-6 months adn felt unable to tackle the part normal diet she was being handed / fed.... This lady resident was increasingly becoming emaciated through the management's ... enforced Starvation. I was brought into a side room and told that the lady resident's teeth were not the issue , as ( wait for this ) she had been referred to the dietician ...?!! I reiterated ,,, do you really feel that the dentures are not important for food intake, and diet( the lady being fed a "normal" diet ( witnessed x7 occasions) .
I replied that this approach would not be in keeping with routine medical health care protocol (it actually would fly in the face of 30,000 doctors ( and the lay man on the street )who would logically agree that any human does require teeth to chew and optimise food eaten.
The manager objected to this; she said that she would disagree with the 30,000 doctors , and the man on the street , and felt that referral to the dietician was the only solution. She then asked me to leave the premises and threatened to ring for the police to take me off the premises; suddenly alleging that she had an injuction aginst me visitng there,,, in spite of me having visited there for 6-7 occasions in the past 2 months. (not quite what one expects in the NHS ).. I practise in health care in the UK. This is a Southern Cross Care Home at Greenhaw Lodge , Derry N. Ireland . The extreme unreasonable reaction of this management understandably makes one wonder as to what else is covertly going on in this nursing home., to the vulnerable residents . I advocate this residents human right to eat her food as others do ....
IF THIS WAS A DOG ,,, IT Would BE TELEVISED ON NATIONAL TV AS CRUELTY TO ANIMALS.
This sprightly lady , who is highly unlikely to have dementia , likely to have suffered abuse , She had also requested to have her teeth in in order to eat and stop her weight loss.
She just threw her eyes up in despair,,, and suffering
I must fight for her human rights in this Care home ... not to be Starved .. Is life in 21st century really BEtter for this resident . My grandmother always proudly said , `they had always enough food at home in the 1930-40s' when other s had little....
Nutritional deficiency aggravates ill health ; a model diet improves health
IS THIS SOCIETY NOT MORE DEGENERATE IN THAT IT SEGREGATES ELDERLY , WHO COULD BE CONTRIBUTING TO SOCIETY'S youth CURRENTLY .
I FEEL the resident is
treated as a lesser member of society ...
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Posted by: mateus black | October 8, 2007 06:44 PM
Fat people - health issues
Nowadays, the most common health problem is overweight, an issue which is suffered by a great deal of the world population. A condition that not only causes you to look fat but also brings people several health risks that leaves them in danger of losing their lives
Every day the concern of people for their health related to overweight problems grows because a lot of them have understood that this problems can make their life quality decrease too much and even to a death threatening level
The risks of being overweight are:
• Type 2 diabetes
• Heart disease and stroke
• Body Mass Index Table
• Cancer
• Sleep apnea
• Osteoarthritis
• Gallbladder disease
• Fatty liver disease
Due to this fact we are seeing every day in a greater amount governments trying to create legislations that obligate food providers including restaurants to show calorie inform calorie information on its menus and menu boards.
all of this legislation are being created in a intent to control this epidemic issue that finish with millions of life every year and is affecting not only the people that have this condition but also their loved ones because they are losing the people they love to a problem that was not much important in the past but now is putting too many lives at risk
weight loss
Posted by: john stuart | October 29, 2007 10:03 PM