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Well the festive season is almost over but not the dreaded flu and colds season.  Flu and colds are treble this year and the worst since the end of the last war.

If you feel yourself coming down with the flu the get yourself off to bed  with plenty of liquids to help flush it away. Lemon and honey is good, you can make it yourself quite easily and add hot water to it.

If you have no one to look after you then fill a flask with it to keep it hot and regularily take sips of it.

 One of my companions on my bedside table is a jar of vick, its a great help if you find breathing difficult. Take pain killers and keep warm.

There is not a lot the doctor can do for you unless it gets on your chest then a visit to the GP may be needed as it can turn into an infection quite easily.

The New year is almost upon on us and thousands of people will be making New Year resolutions with the best of intentions.

Although I am in 71st year I have never made a New Resolution during my life time, simply because if I made one then I could never break it, and who knows what is in the future.

I would love to say my resolution is to give up smoking, but I can’t do that because although I know I should, my will power isn’t strong enough.

A resolution is a promise, even though it is a promise to yourself it should not be broken. So it is better not to make them than to fail miserably and feel a failure.

Oh No!  Now the health campaigners are saying our Xmas lunch has twice the recommended salt intake.

 Researchers from the group Consensus Action on Salt and Health said the levels found in each course of a typical Christmas Day lunch would be dangerous if eaten everyday.

To start with, who could afford to eat Xmas lunch every day?  Well maybe the wealthy people amongst us can but I’m sure they don’t bother. After all it wouldn’t be special if it was eaten every day,

If we followed all the recommendations by these people who think they know best we would end up by being a nation of downright miserable  and skinny people.

We might all be healthy!  We might all be fit and slim but what else would we have in our lives?

No slimming classes, no gyms because we wouldn’t need them. No fatty foods, no chocolate, just the odd drink because too many would be fattening.

Are the researchers going to far with all the recommendations they keep coming up with?

Anyway what ever they recommend I am sure we will all enjoy our festive Xmas lunch and the chocolates and mincepies that are all part of Xmas, yes we will put on a bit of weight but hey! you can always go on a diet after Xmas or give the gym an extra visit.

Enjoy Xmas and have a great time its only once a year.  Merry Christmas every one.

It is true, Dandelion leaves are a great source of health giving properties.  The common and garden Dandelion leaves contain magnesium, niacin, calcium, potassium, phosphorus, gluten, proteins, resin, iron, sulphur, zinc, vitamins B1, B2, B6, B12, C and E, and vitamin A.

A great tonic is dandelion tea, it is made from the roots or leaves. It stimulates the body and gets rid of the waste and toxins.

The leaves of the dandelion are rich in magnesium which improves bones and increases bone density, so it is thought that they may actually help with bone disorders like osteoporosis.

Dandelions help the liver and gall bladder to break down fat, by stimulating the flow of bile which helps to prevent gallstones.

They also help the liver with its process of detoxification which is good for diseases such as hepatitis.

Chinese Wolfberries are like a super food they contain over 15 percent protein, 21 essential minerals and 18 amino acids.  There is substantial evidence that wolfberry have significant antioxidant and immune-supporting properties. 

Analyses have found that wolfberries contain 18 types of amino acids, 21 trace minerals, 29 fatty acids, vitamins B1, B2, B6, E, more beta carotene than carrots, more Vitamin C than oranges, and as much protein as bee pollen.

They have been around for thousands of years and  Chinese Wolfberries have been used to treat a wide range of illnesses, and it is known  that the people who ate them regularly lived long and  healthy lives up to the age of one hundred or longer. 

Studies done by the Chinese government have shown that Chinese wolfberries are extremely useful for boosting the immune system, protecting the liver, improving the quality of blood, and improving vision.(3,4,5,6)

My thoughts are that some of these researchers talk a load of tripe.  They say that some men and women sneeze when they have sexy thoughts or a sexual fantasy.

So if your stood at a bus stop or on a train and someone sneezes, it won’t be cold thats causing it but sexy thoughts.

Just hope its a good looker or you’ll be turned off, but then you never know you might start sneezing yourself.

Hey you spammers especially IP: 194.8.75.163  I don’t know what sort of fun you get from spamming but I feel sorry for you.

You evidently have nothing better to do and thats sad.

Do you really enjoy doing it or do you get paid from somewhere???

Anyway you evidently have a disturbed mind and you know where people like that end up!!!!!!

This is a headline today “Older people view the past through rose tinted glasses”

Researchers found that ageing brains allow negative memories to fade leaving pensioners with a distorted impression of how great life was in their younger days.

It is believed that as we get older we learn to be less affected by negative information in order to maintain our well being.

In contrast, younger adults need to keep an accurate memory of both positive and negative information to help them through their working life.

Therefore younger people remember more negative events than their older counterparts.

The study also found differences in the way the brains work.

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I wonder how old these researchers are!  Do they have experience of what older people think about the past.

I am over seventy years old so maybe they mean people a lot older than me.

The reason older people look back on the good things that happened during their life, is that no one wants to look back at problems or blackspots.

No one can go through life with only good things happening, or if they do they must be one in a million. So we all tend to look back at the good things that did happen.

That doesn’t mean we don’t look forward to the future, since I lost my husband my life is planning holidays and looking forwards to my grand children visiting every week.  The PC takes up a lot of my time, and I look forward to Xmas just like everyone else.

Looking back on the past might just happen if I am having a sleepless night, but at the moment my memories are more in the last two or three years, not a good time I must admit.  Maybe if I reach the age of 80 or 90 I might start looking back on the good times because there were plenty.

To be truthful I try not to think of the past, its much easier to block it out and concentrate on the life ahead.

Oh one more thing you youngsters might like to know is that even when you get to my age, your mind still feels the same as when you were young.  I can be with a crowd of younger people and feel as if I am no different to them, the same age in fact, yet my body shows the difference. So if I tried to act like them they would think I was a silly old woman.

Even my daughters hold my arm when we are crossing roads as if I am decreptive, yet when I am out with my grand children I am looking after them and watching them as we cross roads. So how old to you need to be to be old woman!  I suppose it must be when you really start thinking about the good things that happened in your past and really believe that there was never any bad times.

After all If you got to that stage who would want to be reminded about bad times, you have earned the right to spend your last few years as happy as possible.

All the reports about coffee being bad for you has now changed.  Today new research has reported that a cup of coffee every day could halve cancer of the throat and mouth.

If you have children of school age and they have caught those nasty headlice it seems you can now make money fom them. It will help if you live near the University of Bristol’s department of veterinary science in Langford, North Somerset, as they want to remove the headlice alive.

They will pay one pound for every live head lice they discover in childs head. As lice have become resistant to most of the insecticides available they are looking for new and effective methods to remove them.

Dr Coles says he will pay one pound each as long as there is a minimum of 20 live headlice.

 An Australian doctor has created the Worlds healthiest wine. This is good news for those moderate wine drinkers as two glasses a day is the recommended amount.

The drink is said to clean blood vessels and each glass will reduce the risk of heart a attack.

Wine historian Dr Philip Norrie, explains that each bottle contains up to 100 times the amount of resveratrol in a standard drop, this is a naturally occurring anti-oxidant found in grapes.

Resveratrol helps to maintain blood flow by keeping arteries free of fatty deposits called atherosclerotic plaque.

Dr Norrie said it would act as a “vascular pipe-cleaner”.  The inclusion of such large quantities of this beneficial anti-oxidant is very good news for wine drinkers,” he told Australian Associated Press.

You are effectively clearing your arteries while you drink.

In reality trying to get people to stop smoking, to exercise daily and lose weight, is thought to be the right idea but it doesn’t happen.

Drinking two glasses of wine is realistic, enjoyable and also good for you and I’ve made it even healthier,” he said.

Dr Norrie is now producing his own range of wine, including a chardonnay and a shiraz, each containing 100mg/L of resveratrol per bottle.

He said this was as much as is contained in 70 to 100 bottles of standard white wine or 15 to 20 bottles of standard red.

“He stressed that these benefits are best realised with moderate drinking,” Dr Norrie gave this warning to any connoisseurs planning a wine-based health kick.

University of Queensland cardiologist Associate Professor David Colquhoun also stressed the need for “moderate” consumption as he said the benefits of resveratrol were well known.

“Studies suggested that consumption of wine rich in resveratrol can lessen cardio-vascular disease, heart attack and stroke.

I have not seen any news as to when this wine will be available, or where it will be available, but lets hope its soon.