Coffee Questions
A slew of just-published articles (click! click! click! click! click!) describe a new research study which found that people with early-stage Parkinson’s who drink two cups of coffee a day […]
Nutrition
A High-Calorie Diet May Help You Live Longer
According to a recently published study in Neurology (and summarized for the lay reader in Medical News Today), people with Parkinson’s disease need to watch out for weight loss, especially right after
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Review: The Parkinson’s Playbook, by Robert Smith
Robert Smith, a retired landscaping architect who was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease in 2006, has just come out with a book that explains how he turned his life around five
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Breakfast and the Changing Seasons
We had the first cold night of fall last night, which means it’s time to change my daily breakfast, from cold cereal to hot. I use plain hot oatmeal (which
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Review: “How Not to Die from Parkinson’s Disease”
At the World Parkinson Congress last September, I walked in on the tail-end of an academic session that dealt with nutrition. The speaker ended with a strong pitch that we
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More Helpful Links
Last week I posted a bunch of helpful links under the title “Preparing to Be – Or to Care For – a Special Needs Senior.” The resources came to me courtesy
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In the Offing: Future Therapies for PD
I recently received the following message from Benjamin Stecher in my blog’s in-box: Hey, fellow PD advocate and blogger here, Below is a link to my latest blog entry about the
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The Sinemet Hunger Game – Round 2
A few weeks ago I wrote about the intense hunger I feel multiple times during the day, and about my need to balance eating when I’m hungry with making sure my
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The Sinemet Hunger Game
Lately my body’s been waging a war within itself. The two opponents are (1) the need to take another tablet of Sinemet (carbidopa-levodopa) because the effects are wearing off, and
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Questions for the World Parkinson Congress!
Here are the research questions for which I’ll seek answers when I’m attending the World Parkinson Congress next week in Portland. Do you have your own questions you’d like me
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