100 Simple Things You Can Do to Prevent Alzheimer's

[Villages PL]

This is an easy and interesting read, by Jean Carper, a veteran science writer. You'll learn about all the things you should and shouldn't be doing, as Alzheimer's is largely brought about or prevented by lifestyle. As I have said before: We usually (not always) get the health we promote. The only catch is that one needs to be flexable and open to change. In other words, it's not all about taking pills.

[zcaveman]

This is an easy and interesting read, by Jean Carper, a veteran science writer. You'll learn about all the things you should and shouldn't be doing, as Alzheimer's is largely brought about or prevented by lifestyle. As I have said before: We usually (not always) get the health we promote. The only catch is that one needs to be flexable and open to change. In other words, it's not all about taking pills.

It might be more interesting to read if you post the name of the book. :a040:

Z

[pooh]

This is an easy and interesting read, by Jean Carper, a veteran science writer. You'll learn about all the things you should and shouldn't be doing, as Alzheimer's is largely brought about or prevented by lifestyle. As I have said before: We usually (not always) get the health we promote. The only catch is that one needs to be flexable and open to change. In other words, it's not all about taking pills.

Oh? What about genes? There are genes related to Alzheimer development. There may indeed be ways to help slow or maybe even prevent, late onset of the disease....watch out for head injuries, get plenty of exercise, eat well and stay happy, but have these methods been shown to always work???

[graciegirl]

OH VP. No one has ever proved this hypothesis.

[pooh]

It might be more interesting to read if you post the name of the book. :a040:

Z

Actually, that's the name of the book, Z, 100 Simple Things.........

[zcaveman]

Actually, that's the name of the book, Z, 100 Simple Things.........

Thanks!!!

[chuckinca]

10 simple things might be easier to remember!


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[Barefoot]

Oh dear, I saw the title of this thread, and I decided to stay away from it.
But then I forgot. Oh oh.

[Villages PL]

Oh? What about genes? There are genes related to Alzheimer development. There may indeed be ways to help slow or maybe even prevent, late onset of the disease....watch out for head injuries, get plenty of exercise, eat well and stay happy, but have these methods been shown to always work???

What about genes? Good question, pooh. You, and others, might find it interesting to know that the author, Jean Carper, has the gene for Alzheimer's disease. She disclosed this information at the beginning. The book came out in 2010 and she said she was 78 years old. I think it's pretty good that she can still write an interesting and informative book at her age with the gene for Alzheimer's. She may yet get Alzheimer's but so far (as of 2010) everything seems to be okay.

On the 19th I talked to my doctor about Alzheimer's when I went in to get my blood-work results. My blood-work did not include looking for the Alzheimer's gene and he said he thought it would be a waste of time and money to look for it. And I believe he's correct. He said it's only an association and there may be many other genes involved. Most likely you will find a higher rate of dementia among those with the gene but not everyone with the gene gets Alzheimer's. So what does that mean? I believe it means that the gene (or genes) need to be triggered by something in the environment (and that includes diet, exercise etc..).

Have these methods been shown to always work? Nope, sorry, there are no guarantees. Very few people, even with the best of intentions, can follow all the rules. And these rules have to be started early in life. My father had a big waistline at middle age and I believe I read (in another book) that a big waistline (about 40 inches?) will increase your risk by about 6 times. The first symptom he had was the loss of his sense of smell which we discovered when my mother was baking cookies. Everyone said mmmm! those cookies smell good! And he said, "what smell? I don't smell anything." He was somewhere around his mid-fifties at the time and didn't get diagnosed with Alzheimer's until he was about 77 to 78 years old.

I have never been overweight but I did hit my head a couple of times, accidentally. But I would still recommend that no one give up trying to avoid dementia, regardless of what was in their past. I can't be pessimistic; that's not my nature. I may be pessimistic at times about the direction of the country as a whole, but for myself and others around me I would like to offer hope. And the fact that this good book was written by someone with the gene....well, that in itself offers a lot of hope.

[pooh]

It is indeed one of life's greatest mysteries. I have a friend whose family is impacted with familial Alzheimer's. Members of her family have been studied, also. She is beginning to exhibit brain shrinkage, associated with coming down with the condition. As of this date, she has not exhibited Alzheimer's. It's been a few years.

Not sure if I would want to be tested VPl. At this point, if Alzheimer's manifests, actually very little seems to help, actually nothing really does at the moment.
One physician, Dr. Mary Newport reports success with her husband, an Alzheimer's patient, using coconut oil. Is this a cure all? Did it really work? Will it bring about a host of other medical problems?
If prevention through diet, exercise, preventing blows to the head turn out to nip the condition in the bud, you're right, prevention needs to start early. If other factors play some part in Alzheimer's, hopefully continued research will better pinpoint exactly why things happen. We know what happens, but why???

[Villages PL]

OH VP. No one has ever proved this hypothesis.

What hypothesis? Duh! :) Oh, you mean the hypothesis that Alzheimer's can be prevented through lifestyle?

It all depends on how much "proof" you want. How much proof do you want?
Put in your order now and I'll try to get some. :)

[senior citizen]

What about genes? Good question, pooh. You, and others, might find it interesting to know that the author, Jean Carper, has the gene for Alzheimer's disease. She disclosed this information at the beginning. The book came out in 2010 and she said she was 78 years old. I think it's pretty good that she can still write an interesting and informative book at her age with the gene for Alzheimer's. She may yet get Alzheimer's but so far (as of 2010) everything seems to be okay.

On the 19th I talked to my doctor about Alzheimer's when I went in to get my blood-work results. My blood-work did not include looking for the Alzheimer's gene and he said he thought it would be a waste of time and money to look for it. And I believe he's correct. He said it's only an association and there may be many other genes involved. Most likely you will find a higher rate of dementia among those with the gene but not everyone with the gene gets Alzheimer's. So what does that mean? I believe it means that the gene (or genes) need to be triggered by something in the environment (and that includes diet, exercise etc..).

Have these methods been shown to always work? Nope, sorry, there are no guarantees. Very few people, even with the best of intentions, can follow all the rules. And these rules have to be started early in life. My father had a big waistline at middle age and I believe I read (in another book) that a big waistline (about 40 inches?) will increase your risk by about 6 times. The first symptom he had was the loss of his sense of smell which we discovered when my mother was baking cookies. Everyone said mmmm! those cookies smell good! And he said, "what smell? I don't smell anything." He was somewhere around his mid-fifties at the time and didn't get diagnosed with Alzheimer's until he was about 77 to 78 years old.

I have never been overweight but I did hit my head a couple of times, accidentally. But I would still recommend that no one give up trying to avoid dementia, regardless of what was in their past. I can't be pessimistic; that's not my nature. I may be pessimistic at times about the direction of the country as a whole, but for myself and others around me I would like to offer hope. And the fact that this good book was written by someone with the gene....well, that in itself offers a lot of hope.

I can attest to the "lack of smell" as one of the earlier "symptoms" of Alzheimers. Not only have I read about that symptom but my own mother displayed it for decades when everything else seemed "normal".

She knew that she couldn't smell things baking, cooking, flowers, perfume, etc. .....most of the things we take for granted as being able to notice the scent of.........but she worried most about NOT BEING ABLE TO SMELL A GAS LEAK. I kept telling her that she had NO GAS in her home, but guess she was using her "long term memory" to recall the gas heat in her childhood, as well as the gas stoves......

She always talked about her "lack of smell".

The other interesting "POSSIBLE LINK" to Alzheimers is aluminum.
They do tend to find large aluminum deposits in the brain after doing autopsies.

She used a lot of I.A.D. and Kaopectate on her senior bus trips.
Immodium is an antidiarrheal, just as Kaopectate is. Both products have aluminum in them.

She also cooked in aluminum pots her entire life, but the jury is out on that. Ditto for her generation having lots of food from aluminum cans.
World War II era.

I thought you didn't believe in genetics???????????

You've always said that the health of my long lived relatives was not attributable to their genes.

Alzheimers is very very very insidious as it sneaks up on the unsuspecting family and friends of the person who has it.

They may seem quite normal for say 84 and 85 and actually be in top PHYSICAL CONDITION..........but sooner or later someone will notice that "things go missing" like calendars, plants, pocketbooks, checkbooks, all types of things and the person cannot remember where they put them.

This is much MORE than a simple "senior moment".

They begin to forget to send a birthday card or forget that there is a war going on in the Gulf.........or do not know , all of a sudden, who the president of the U.S.A. is........even though their spouse watches the evening news every night.

They go to mass on the wrong day. They go to their hairdresser appointment every day of the week, forgetting it is only one day a week.
The hairdresser tells the adult daughter, "Your momma is confused".

They forget to write their bills out.

All of their house plants disappear. Their clothes disappear.

This really isn't funny.........but as it's happening, it's difficult for the family members.

Some become beliggerant; others become docile. Definite personality changes.

How we noticed it was when the spouse died, and we went to clean the house, all of the EXPIRED food in the frig.........have heard this story over and over again from others in the same boat..........food in there for 2 to 3 or more years.........expired dates. Sour milk, etc.

Usually they get malnutriton as they FORGET TO EAT.

They begin to "wander" and end up in strange places.

She'd tell me she walked to the supermarket and when she got there she'd forget what she went for.
If she wrote it down, she lost the note.

I'd drive her to the supermarket and she'd say "I don't really need anything".

Then I'd find out she walked all the way back later.

In another post you said you didn't know what a KINDLE was????
Plus you've never had a charge card. Are you sure????
You just said you've hit your head a few times.

When my mom was finally administered the cognitive test by a doctor who specialized in Alzheimers, he said he could NOT administer it.
That's how far gone she was........and yet with us, she still had her social skills and remembered our names and was FINE as long as I did everything for her.............it took a good decade for it to progress to the END STAGE............however, she might have had it prior to the diagnosis, when I think back now. She always claimed she didn't know how to use the toaster. We bought her a microwave and wrote the instructions down, but she couldn't use that. Ditto for a camera, a popcorn popper, etc. So, maybe there were symptoms earlier than 84.

While traveling with us she managed to somehow open a deadbolt lock and exit the room ; went down to the atrium by the hotel pool where a wedding was going on and crashed the wedding in her nightgown, bare feet and with a pocketbook over her arm (like Sophia in THE GOLDEN GIRLS)......THE FRONT DESK CALLED ME AT MIDNIGHT TO COME AND GET HER WHICH MY HUSBAND DID. Had she gone OUTDOORS.....she would have froze to death as it was 16 degrees out in December.

She had what they call "Sundowners's Syndrome" which is night time wandering. We live in a tri level so I always worried she would fall down the stairs, but she never did. But she did some strange things overnight each night. A friend's mom would go down and set the dining room table for Thanksgiving dinner every single night.
Waking up to these things is stressful after 6 years of it or more.

At her adult daycare center, they said, "Your mom is different in that SHE KNOWS SHE IS CONFUSED". "MOST OF OUR PEOPLE DO NOT KNOW IT".

FOOD FOR THOUGHT: Are you confused if you don't know it?

p.s. Your theory on weight is flawed. We saw patients of all sizes, mostly thin, in the skilled nursing home....in various stages of Alzheimers, from early to end stage.
My mom was four feet eleven inches (very short) and extremely thin and tiny boned her entire life...........when I "got her" to live with me , after my stepdad died, she weighed only 85 pounds. In her prime she never weighed more than 95 to 100 lbs. As I've told you before, she walked all over town like a teenager, as everyone told me. We couldn't even keep up with her. I had her living with us for six years and her weight increased to 120 lbs to 125 lbs via three good nourishing meals per day.
When she had to go to a community care home, she went down to 85 pounds again as they just put the food in front of her in the dining room, but if she forgot to eat it, that was that. The last 18 months in the skilled nursing facility for alzheimer patients, they SPOON FED HER as we sat by and watched; we also spoon fed her and her weight went back up to 125 lbs. She was there because I could no longer bathe her. They had a gizmo where they'd elevate her "chair" up into the air and lower it down into a warm whirlpool tub..........she'd lost her speech by then, but would cry out as she was frightened ........until she felt the nice soothing warm water.
BELIEVE ME WHEN I SAY I AM EXPERIENCED IN THE "LONG GOODBYE" OF ALZHEIMERS.............and not everyone is the same. There were teachers, doctors, engineers, and regular plumbers, carpenters, you name it.......people from all walks of life and SIZES get Alzheimers.......the worst is when they get it at a YOUNG AGE.

[Villages PL]

I thought you didn't believe in genetics???????????

Well, I'll explain it again. Some authors, like Dr. Bruce Lipton, say that very few diseases are caused by a single gene. For the many common degenerative diseases, genes need to be triggered by lifestyle. Genes by themselves don't cause degenerative diseases.

You've always said that the health of my long lived relatives was not attributable to their genes.

I don't know your relatives and only have your word for what they did and didn't do. Are you sure you remember what they did? So why speculate? But I still say that lifestyle is the major factor in determining health and longevity.

In another post you said you didn't know what a KINDLE was????
Plus you've never had a charge card. Are you sure????
You just said you've hit your head a few times.

Are you sure you remember what I said? I didn't say I didn't know what a KINDLE was. Do you know what you are insinuating? Ordinarilly, it would be considered mean-spirited but it might just be a change in personality. I read that aggression and rudeness can be an early sign of Alzheimer's.


p.s. Your theory on weight is flawed. We saw patients of all sizes, mostly thin, in the skilled nursing home....in various stages of Alzheimers, from early to end stage.

No it's not flawed. It's not weight per say, it's waist measurement. Did you forget? And, in science, it doesn't mean that everyone with a large waist will get Alzheimer's. It just means that they increase their risk of getting Alzheimer's.

[Villages PL]

It is indeed one of life's greatest mysteries. I have a friend whose family is impacted with familial Alzheimer's. Members of her family have been studied, also. She is beginning to exhibit brain shrinkage, associated with coming down with the condition. As of this date, she has not exhibited Alzheimer's. It's been a few years.

Not sure if I would want to be tested VPl. At this point, if Alzheimer's manifests, actually very little seems to help, actually nothing really does at the moment.
One physician, Dr. Mary Newport reports success with her husband, an Alzheimer's patient, using coconut oil. Is this a cure all? Did it really work? Will it bring about a host of other medical problems?
If prevention through diet, exercise, preventing blows to the head turn out to nip the condition in the bud, you're right, prevention needs to start early. If other factors play some part in Alzheimer's, hopefully continued research will better pinpoint exactly why things happen. We know what happens, but why???

The book (100 Simple Things....) explains that there can be brain shrinkage and all kinds of other signs of degeneration and some people go on living normal lives. So, it's a strange disease. But it's thought that there can be offsetting factors like keeping active etc..

[pooh]

The book (100 Simple Things....) explains that there can be brain shrinkage and all kinds of other signs of degeneration and some people go on living normal lives. So, it's a strange disease. But it's thought that there can be offsetting factors like keeping active etc..
It is indeed, a strange disease. My friend was devastated initially when diagnosed with mild cognitive disorder AND some brain shrinkage...having had so many family members with Alzheimer's, including her father, uncles, and an aunt, too, I believe. A good number of years have passed and there appears to be no worsening, so hopefully, she and her family will be spared this disease and it's devastating impact on patient and family. This disease is so complicated....hopefully a cause and effect can be definitively determined soon.

[senior citizen]

Well, I'll explain it again. Some authors, like Dr. Bruce Lipton, say that very few diseases are caused by a single gene. For the many common degenerative diseases, genes need to be triggered by lifestyle. Genes by themselves don't cause degenerative diseases.



I don't know your relatives and only have your word for what they did and didn't do. Are you sure you remember what they did? So why speculate? But I still say that lifestyle is the major factor in determining health and longevity.



Are you sure you remember what I said? I didn't say I didn't know what a KINDLE was. Do you know what you are insinuating? Ordinarilly, it would be considered mean-spirited but it might just be a change in personality. I read that aggression and rudeness can be an early sign of Alzheimer's.




No it's not flawed. It's not weight per say, it's waist measurement. Did you forget? And, in science, it doesn't mean that everyone with a large waist will get Alzheimer's. It just means that they increase their risk of getting Alzheimer's.


Obviously, you've never seen a teeny tiny "skinny minnie" lady of 85 to 95 lbs....top weight 100 in their prime,if that. NO BIG WAIST on a frame of those dimensions. There are variables in everything.

What I am saying is that NOT ALL CASES ARE ALIKE....you cannot lump it all together from your rigid perspective.

It's like saying someone with a big nose is going to get brain cancer.

Mean spirited? I don't think so.

But I do think that people who have a fear of dying just might become so rigid in their search for eternal life on earth that they don't see the forest for the trees.

Personally, it is none of my business if you have or don't have a charge card nor a televsion set or a kindle for that matter. Personal choices.

However, your comments have been very rude, to say the least.
Some of them don't even make sense.....such as reading novels is boring. Lurking near fellow library visitors to see what they are carrying out of the library? Most people read a variety of fields of interest but perhaps some just want an "escape" in a novel. Not all books are great works of art.

We are all on this earth to learn, but it's true that you can attract more people with a little genuine understanding that everyone is different and not as rigid as others.

Yesterday we had a carpenter over who just happens to be Mennonite, originally from Pennsylvania. He had a beautiful truck and trailer for his equipment.......unlike the Amish, they do have cars , however, he told us he does NOT have a television. Very nice 35 year old dad of an 18 month old daughter. He and his wife just flew back and forth 16 hours each way to Hong Kong on their "mission"........did lovely work, as he has done for our neighbors............now, my husband would miss his 60 inch flat screen t.v. as he's really been enjoying the Olympic games.
What's the harm? We also watch a lot of Public Television documentaries plus the few good shows that are still on regular t.v.
Our brains are still just fine.......

When our grandchildren come over, they love to play Wii and do their exercises in front of this giant t.v...........so, different strokes for different folks.

Anyone who knows me, knows I am the least mean spirited person alive; it's just that your posts do provoke people. If you are trying to get a rise out of folks, you should say you are playing "Devil's Advocate" and they would "get it"..........but you come out so bluntly......like insinuating my dad had congenital heart disease back in 1899 at birth because his mother might have done drugs? Wrong era. Unless you pictured her going to an OPIUM den, which they did have back at the turn of the century in N.Y.C. I can always see both sides to every story.
It's called "being flexible" in mind and thought.

PEACE

[graciegirl]

I have thought about this long and hard Village Pl. You think a LOT about what you eat, you don't have a TV and don't read dime novels, and I am not feeling any smilies coming from your corner. You live here in this wonderful place with so many witty, warm, funny, compassionate folks who are giggling, belly laughing and guffawing and laughing until their pants will never dry.

I just don't feel any laughs from you.

I think I am going to gather the girls posse and we may come over to your house and tickle you.

Puhleeze don't be so serious on here all of the time.

Life IS way too short, no matter what we eat.:icon_wink:

[Mudder]

My feelings about PL exactly , Gracie. No matter what you do , you will not live forever so why not loosen up and enjoy the wonderful world we live in....one ice cream cone on a hot day won't kill you, a telvison set will not shorten your life....I could go on and on but probably just falling on deaf ears.

[Barefoot]

No matter what you do , you will not live forever so why not loosen up and enjoy the wonderful world we live in....one ice cream cone on a hot day won't kill you, a telvison set will not shorten your life....I could go on and on but probably just falling on deaf ears.

And reading novels won't make you boring!

[rubicon]

You know this gene thing. Well I found out I have the golf gene but you know what it doesn't work.

You know what my Mom developed Alzheimer's cried like a baby every time I visited her. Yes I was her favorite and she mine. she was a very strong and breathtaking beautiful woman who loved God her husband and children and to witness her decline in such a fashion was excruciatingly painful. I pray the medical community does find the source of the problem and its cure.

[senior citizen]

You know this gene thing. Well I found out I have the golf gene but you know what it doesn't work.

You know what my Mom developed Alzheimer's cried like a baby every time I visited her. Yes I was her favorite and she mine. she was a very strong and breathtaking beautiful woman who loved God her husband and children and to witness her decline in such a fashion was excruciatingly painful. I pray the medical community does find the source of the problem and its cure.

I can relate to your post, so much so , that it brings tears to my eyes.
Only someone who has been through it themselves can understand as it's so very difficult to explain...

That's why they call it the "Long Goodbye"........it's hard to stand by and watch the decline, feeling helpless. When my mom lost her ability to speak, it was very difficult......and the only way we could communicate was to spoon feed her coffee ice cream. The Alzheimer Wing had a special kitchen area and the staff would tell all of us visitors to help ourselves to the dixie cups and that we should spoon feed it to our moms and dads, spouses, whatever..........they were like little birds, opening their mouths. We'd also push her out onto the patio in nice weather. This was only the last 16 months of her life. Prior to that she could speak and she could walk.......I'd say she had it for about ten years....

[rubicon]

I can relate to your post, so much so , that it brings tears to my eyes.
Only someone who has been through it themselves can understand as it's so very difficult to explain...

That's why they call it the "Long Goodbye"........it's hard to stand by and watch the decline, feeling helpless. When my mom lost her ability to speak, it was very difficult......and the only way we could communicate was to spoon feed her coffee ice cream. The Alzheimer Wing had a special kitchen area and the staff would tell all of us visitors to help ourselves to the dixie cups and that we should spoon feed it to our moms and dads, spouses, whatever..........they were like little birds, opening their mouths. We'd also push her out onto the patio in nice weather. This was only the last 16 months of her life. Prior to that she could speak and she could walk.......I'd say she had it for about ten years....

Let's pray for a cure because no one deserves that

[Villages PL]

Obviously, you've never seen a teeny tiny "skinny minnie" lady of 85 to 95 lbs....top weight 100 in their prime,if that. NO BIG WAIST on a frame of those dimensions. There are variables in everything.

What I am saying is that NOT ALL CASES ARE ALIKE....you cannot lump it all together from your rigid perspective.

It's like saying someone with a big nose is going to get brain cancer.

Mean spirited? I don't think so.

But I do think that people who have a fear of dying just might become so rigid in their search for eternal life on earth that they don't see the forest for the trees.

Personally, it is none of my business if you have or don't have a charge card nor a televsion set or a kindle for that matter. Personal choices.

However, your comments have been very rude, to say the least.
Some of them don't even make sense.....such as reading novels is boring. Lurking near fellow library visitors to see what they are carrying out of the library? Most people read a variety of fields of interest but perhaps some just want an "escape" in a novel. Not all books are great works of art.

We are all on this earth to learn, but it's true that you can attract more people with a little genuine understanding that everyone is different and not as rigid as others.

Yesterday we had a carpenter over who just happens to be Mennonite, originally from Pennsylvania. He had a beautiful truck and trailer for his equipment.......unlike the Amish, they do have cars , however, he told us he does NOT have a television. Very nice 35 year old dad of an 18 month old daughter. He and his wife just flew back and forth 16 hours each way to Hong Kong on their "mission"........did lovely work, as he has done for our neighbors............now, my husband would miss his 60 inch flat screen t.v. as he's really been enjoying the Olympic games.
What's the harm? We also watch a lot of Public Television documentaries plus the few good shows that are still on regular t.v.
Our brains are still just fine.......

When our grandchildren come over, they love to play Wii and do their exercises in front of this giant t.v...........so, different strokes for different folks.

Anyone who knows me, knows I am the least mean spirited person alive; it's just that your posts do provoke people. If you are trying to get a rise out of folks, you should say you are playing "Devil's Advocate" and they would "get it"..........but you come out so bluntly......like insinuating my dad had congenital heart disease back in 1899 at birth because his mother might have done drugs? Wrong era. Unless you pictured her going to an OPIUM den, which they did have back at the turn of the century in N.Y.C. I can always see both sides to every story.
It's called "being flexible" in mind and thought.

PEACE

Wow, you are really very good at two things: 1) Misunderstanding what people say (especially about science) and 2) holding a grudge

[Villages PL]

I have thought about this long and hard Village Pl. You think a LOT about what you eat, you don't have a TV and don't read dime novels, and I am not feeling any smilies coming from your corner.

I think a lot about what I eat? I don't think I think about it any more than you do. Do you know why? Because after about 7 years of veganism it all comes automatically. What's there to think about?

About TV: I watched enough TV as a youngster to last me a lifetime. Now I just consider it to be a waste of time and money. My favorite show, when I last had a TV, was Seinfeld. I'm a big fan of comedy.

No, I don't read dime novels anymore. The last dime novel I read was Lady Chatterley's Lover. I was a teenager and I heard there was some hot sex in the book.

About smiles coming from my corner: How would you detect a smile over the internet? Do you have "smile detection" on your computer?


You live here in this wonderful place with so many witty, warm, funny, compassionate folks who are giggling, belly laughing and guffawing and laughing until their pants will never dry.

Yes, that reminds me: I was in a restaurant with my friend a few months ago and next to us there was a table (two tables put together) full of about 8 or 10 people. They were laughing so loudly, we had to stop talking because we couldn't hear each other.

I just don't feel any laughs from you.

Well, I don't usually laugh when I'm on the computer. But somtimes I do. You might not be around when I'm laughing. I'll call you over next time I feel a laugh coming on.

I think I am going to gather the girls posse and we may come over to your house and tickle you.

I'm on the phone right now calling Community (tickle) Watch.

Puhleeze don't be so serious on here all of the time.

Life IS way too short, no matter what we eat.:icon_wink:

Did you detect any laughing in this post? On a scale of 1 to 10, how serious was I? (10 being the most serious)

[graciegirl]

I think a lot about what I eat? I don't think I think about it any more than you do. Do you know why? Because after about 7 years of veganism it all comes automatically. What's there to think about?

About TV: I watched enough TV as a youngster to last me a lifetime. Now I just consider it to be a waste of time and money. My favorite show, when I last had a TV, was Seinfeld. I'm a big fan of comedy.

No, I don't read dime novels anymore. The last dime novel I read was Lady Chatterley's Lover. I was a teenager and I heard there was some hot sex in the book.

About smiles coming from my corner: How would you detect a smile over the internet? Do you have "smile detection" on your computer?




Yes, that reminds me: I was in a restaurant with my friend a few months ago and next to us there was a table (two tables put together) full of about 8 or 10 people. They were laughing so loudly, we had to stop talking because we couldn't hear each other.



Well, I don't usually laugh when I'm on the computer. But somtimes I do. You might not be around when I'm laughing. I'll call you over next time I feel a laugh coming on.



I'm on the phone right now calling Community (tickle) Watch.



Did you detect any laughing in this post? On a scale of 1 to 10, how serious was I? (10 being the most serious)

Well now that you explain it that way, I see that my personality and yours are a bit at odds. Just tryin' to hep. Doesn't look like you need any. Good night and sleep well.

[senior citizen]

Wow, you are really very good at two things: 1) Misunderstanding what people say (especially about science) and 2) holding a grudge

They may have a Dale Carnegie course at The Villages or in the surrounding area.
By the way, it is not a "novel".

How to Win Friends and Influence People

This is Dale Carnegie's summary of his book, from 1936

Table of Contents



Fundamental Techniques in Handling People (http://www.westegg.com/unmaintained/carnegie/win-friends.html#one)
Six Ways to Make People Like You (http://www.westegg.com/unmaintained/carnegie/win-friends.html#two)
How to Win People to Your Way of Thinking (http://www.westegg.com/unmaintained/carnegie/win-friends.html#three)
Be a Leader: How to Change People Without Giving Offense or Arousing Resentment (http://www.westegg.com/unmaintained/carnegie/win-friends.html#four)
Part One
Fundamental Techniques in Handling People



Don't criticize, condemn or complain.
Give honest and sincere appreciation.
Arouse in the other person an eager want.

[graciegirl]

They may have a Dale Carnegie course at The Villages or in the surrounding area.
By the way, it is not a "novel".

How to Win Friends and Influence People

This is Dale Carnegie's summary of his book, from 1936

Table of Contents




Fundamental Techniques in Handling People (http://www.westegg.com/unmaintained/carnegie/win-friends.html#one)
Six Ways to Make People Like You (http://www.westegg.com/unmaintained/carnegie/win-friends.html#two)
How to Win People to Your Way of Thinking (http://www.westegg.com/unmaintained/carnegie/win-friends.html#three)
Be a Leader: How to Change People Without Giving Offense or Arousing Resentment (http://www.westegg.com/unmaintained/carnegie/win-friends.html#four)
Part One
Fundamental Techniques in Handling People



Don't criticize, condemn or complain.
Give honest and sincere appreciation.
Arouse in the other person an eager want.


Very good points indeed, and ones that I have always considered valid.
I think my dear Senior, it is time for us to try to stop trying here.

[otqm1212]

There ia a walk for the cure of Alzheimer's Sept.7th in Ocala at Tuscawilla Park.
Also Dirt-B-Gone is holding a carpet cleaning drive (Clean For The Cure) from now until the end of Sept. where 20% of the cost of your carpet cleaning goes to Alzheimer's research in your name. To setup an appointment call 352-322-0102