Seven health risks that could lead to Alzheimer’s

Half of Alzheimer’s cases worldwide can be traced to seven common risk factors, a new study shows.
The findings also suggest that by tackling those underlying issues – which range from lack of education to obesity – the rising tide of dementia could be slowed considerably.
“We are assuming that when you change the risk factor, then you change the risk,” said Deborah Barnes, an associate professor of psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco, and lead author of the study. “What we need to do now is figure out whether that assumption is correct.”

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My Canada Day 2011

This year we decided to take in a few of the many events that were happening on the south shore of Nova Scotia.  We started the day in Caledonia with a pancake strawberry brunch...delicious. The strawberries are starting to appear at markets and they are sooo  good.  While in Caledonia, we visited a little shop that I find facinating...so full of so many things. Not organized, just there.  We found a couple of little treasures that we added to the outside table.

The turtle came from Mahone Bay and the other items came from Caledonia 

Our next stop was Liverpool to visit the farmer's market.  And that is where we bought some strawberries to bring home for later. The community of Liverpool is in the midst of Privateer days but not much was happening at 11:00 am when we were there, but the market was alive and well and worth a visit.

Farmer's Market in Liverpool

Beautiful Day mid 20's and sunny

Bought a stained glass butterfly for the dinning room window at the market, also a hugh piece of banana bread to share and of course the strawberries. 

Then on to Bridgewater.  I wanted to take in some of the Canada Day celebrations in Bridgewater...but we didn't time things very well, we were too late for the cake cutting and got there to find a street closed.  So we crossed the river and took a couple of pictures from the other side of the river. Music, food and fun.

We then took a leisurely drive to Lunenburg, Mahone Bay and arrived at the Whirly Gig store in Western Shore.  And yes we made a few purchases.

Interesting shop, several made on site and others mass produced in far away lands.  But colourful and interesting.

The little butterfly followed us home...okay we bought it.

The eagle flaps his wings and creates movement and interest.

The only colour in this bed is the little spinner we bought at the whirly gig shop.  Hopefully the phlox will be beautiful in the future. 

We called it a day and headed home.  Passed on the fireworks although a neighbour did have a few that we saw from our living room window as we watched the display on parliament hill.  A great day.