Acrostic Poem
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Nutrition
Positive Deviancy and Enriched Environment
Positive Deviance with an Enriched Environment Last week I reviewed research that showed that rats and mice raised in an “enriched environment” and then infected with a chemical that gave
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From Korea: Metabolic Syndrome and the Risk of Parkinson’s Disease
A five-year study of the entire South Korean adult population over the age of 40 found strong correlations between “metabolic syndrome” and Parkinson’s disease. What’s “metabolic syndrome” (MetS)? It consists
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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
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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