These items just in from health unlimited.
Yes, do have that colonoscopy. Recent studies show a dramatic drop in colon cancer in those who had the investigative procedure done and had precancerous growths removed. The info indicates the death rate from colon cancer was cut in half for them. Colon cancer is next to lung cancer in killing folks. Sure, a colonoscopy is no fun. Colon cancer is much less entertaining. One to one, there’s no comparison. So do it.
YOGA IS GOOD for you. Jane Brody says so.
Ms. Brody read a book called, “The Science of Yoga” because a friend of hers wrote it and decided to take a course. Wow! She feels much healthier, stronger with more energy, more flexible, trimmer. There can be negatives. Try too hard and you can strain, tear or break something. The advantages outweigh dangers, which, do, after all, yield to common sense.
Yoga not only is good for the bod, it also can clear the mind.
Get Mr. William J. Broad’s book and learn about this ancient art. Look around and discover that there are yoga opportunities in Iola; that the only equipment needed is a mat; that yoga can be done at home, alone or together.
Speaking of together, yoga can revitalize a person’s sex life by producing surges in sex hormones and the brain waves associated with sexual arousal. But, Ms. Brody advises, don’t act on this in class.
Most important, learn it isn’t just for Indian fakirs and jaded celebrities looking for a new ego fix. Even you can do it.
FEELING OFF YOUR FEED? Maybe your eyes need checking. Looking for reasons why some older folks have memory loss, slower reaction time, insomnia and higher rates of depression, scientists closed in on the aging of the human eye.
They discovered that the gradual yellowing of the lens and the narrowing of the pupil that go along with getting older disturb the body’s circadian rhythm. Say, what? The circadian rhythm is what scientists call the body’s internal clock, just to let you know how smart they are.
Kansans are involved.
“We believe the effect is huge and that it’s just beginning to be recognized as a problem,” said Dr. Patricia Turner, an ophthalmologist in Leawood, who, with her husband, Dr. Martin Mainster, a professor of Ophthalmology at the University of Kansas School of Medicine in Kansas City, has written extensively on the effects of the aging eye on health.
The circadian rhythms are the cyclical hormonal and physiologic processes that rally the body in the morning to tackle the day’s tasks and slow it down at night to rebuild. They depend on light to work. Age-clouded lenses reduce the light, affecting the rhythms.
So, what can be done? The experiments show the clouded lens filter out blue light which is particularly needed to keep the body clock functioning at optimum. They also discovered that patients who had had cataracts removed and a clear lens substituted once again received unfiltered blue light and recovered some of their lost faculties.
Since the old are most likely to have cataracts and to have them removed and plastic lenses inserted, those persons can be given a new lease on a healthy life with the use of clear plastic inserts which let the blue light through.
Now you know what to ask for when it comes your turn.
