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Also, get your hearing and vision checked. It appears (more research is needed) that hearing and vision problems can hasten dementia, and dealing with them can delay the progression of dementia.

I’m surprised the list of risk factors did not include vision loss. It appears that removing cataracts when they occur can help slightly with cognitive function if that’s an issue. It appears that dulling of the physical senses (hearing, vision, and smell, and perhaps other senses)… Read More

I think perhaps you forgot the general rule for women’s clothing: the less fabric, the more expensive, unless it’s marketed at plus-sized women, in which case it’s always more expensive.

It can be a useful skill to know when to shut up or not say much when you don’t know things (I, myself, cannot claim to have perfected that skill). If he had simply congratulated her for having won the award, this article would have gone unwritten.

I wish I could like SarahBird’s comment more than once. I think it’s fair game to criticize someone for what they say or do, but when you criticize someone for how they look, there’s often collateral damage.

Perhaps you were too young to pick up on it at the time, but tons of yo momma jokes back in the day were recycled jokes using “yo momma” as a start to make them seem less bigoted than their previous versions.

@genextra I’m a Gen Xer who is a few years younger than you. I remember a high school English class where we were talking about the degendering of occupation names. That was when terms like policeman and fireman were still the most common, and some people were using gender-neutral… Read More

The number of people who worry about commercial airplanes when they should be worried instead about the cars they drive every day is very high.

Plus they tend to have more heavy metals on them (such as lead from road dust (from the bits that come off car tires) before you wash them.

If you’re able to avoid one area to pick (maybe by going for other spots on your body), try to avoid picking or squeezing inside the triangle from the top of your nose to the corners of your mouth (that includes all parts of your nose). If you are not able to avoid it, try to make… Read More