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How this £1,000 prize could fight an age old disease
30th November 2008
A hobby that helps my parents cope with
dementia
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In Friday's Good Life Letter I had a good old rant.
After reading the Health Secretary's demand for a
'lifestyle revolution' that involved Tesco and
Kellog's I flipped.
I just hate it when government and big business
get together to tell us what to do.
As you could probably tell, steam was coming
from my ears. (Well, it makes a change from
having hair come out my ears.)
My advice was this:
Take control of your own health and happiness.
Find out all the little ways you can make your life
better, and try them out yourself. See what suits
you.
Don't leave it to the big corporations and sound-
bite politicians to 'educate' you.
It was when I went round to my parents' house
yesterday that I realised how important this
message is.
A superb example of taking control...
As you know, my Dad is struggling with dementia.
He's struggling to realise the severity of the
problem and unwilling to take advice from us mere
mortals.
He needs to keep exercising his brain. Not only
that, he needs to keep engaged with something
fun and interesting. Something he can share with
mum.
But one thing is helping a lot... and it's coming
from a surprising quarter... |
A hobby that helps them cope with a
horrible disease
They've started a hobby that involves entering
competitions.... prize draws... brain teasers... that
kind of thing.
As I recall, I wrote to you about this at the
beginning of summer when they first started
getting into it. My wife has been 'comping' for
years and was the one who turned them onto this
hobby.
Anyway, now they love it.
So much so, that they've become super-fans of a
brilliant email service that finds the best prize
draws for them, so they can pretty much pick and
choose what they want to win.
Check this out - it's absolutely free by the way....
CLICK HERE
A chance to get £1000
When you join up you can win stuff like :
- A five-star family holiday on the Mayan Riviera
- A money-can't buy visit to The Taj Mahal in India?
- £2,000 to spend on designer clothes of your choice
- VIP drinks with Steve Wonder and friends
Not a bad hoard right? If anything can cure the
economic blues, that little lot can...
And when you sign up to this service you also get
entered for a £1000 cash prize draw. Another
good reason to take a look.
Anyway, my folks have been pleading with me to
talk about this in my newsletter. And fair enough,
it's brought them together, offered them something
that's easy to do, yet keeps the brain working...
and best of all you can win prizes.
What's not to like?
But there's also a serious message behind this... |
Why you should use it... or lose it!
As we get older, we get used to having our tried
and tested routine.
For example, I still tell myself that I'm a spring
chicken. But if something random happens to
disrupt my planned week, I start running round the
house like a deranged old cockerel, squawking at
anything or anybody who gets in the way.
This predictability isn't good for our brains. Most of
our daily tasks become automatic.
Truth is, we could do most of them in our sleep.
So we learn fewer and fewer new skills as we get
older. Old dogs, we learn no new tricks.
But the brain is like a muscle. It needs constant
workouts to keep it strong. Even more importantly,
it needs exercise to protect itself from dementia.
This was confirmed by Dr Joe Verghese and his
fellow researchers at the Albert Einstein College of
Medicine in New York.
Their study says that 'Reading, playing board
games, playing musical instruments and dancing
were associated with a reduced risk of dementia'.
Susanne Sorensen, of the Alzheimer's Society,
says:
'This confirms the 'use it or lose' it school of
thought which provides evidence that complex and
precise brain activity can build up a brain reserve
that may protect people from Alzheimer's disease
later in later life.'
So here's what to do...
Brain hobbies to keep your mind healthy
Take some time out this week to try one of
these....
- Recite the alphabet backwards. Keep
practising until you can do this fluently.
- Play a game of chess every day. If you
don't know how - then learn!
- Take up a musical instrument. Get a book
and learn each note, then begin to learn
simple tunes.
- Do the daily crossword or Su Doku.
- Start entering UK prizes and top draws -
subscribe to Just Comps Express and
they'll email you everything you need for
no charge, with no obligation. Click HERE
If you do try out comping, I wish you the best of
luck. I hope you win something before Christmas -
let me know if you do!
I'll be back with more tips next week. |
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