Absolute codswallop

Maybe you can get June Andrews on her to explain her research methodology.

FFS what's all the fuss about? It's only a few tips.

Or is it because most people know this already?

Agree, Anya. It's not as if we've been told to do anything outlandish.
I've always known that if I get dementia, it's because I do not eat fish!

It borders on blaming the sufferer. Which is wrong.

Does it really?

Can't see that myself and I've just re-read it in case I missed something.

Well, I eat fish but I don't go ballroom dancing!

These are my own tips for avoiding dementia - and if they don't do any good, they won't do any harm.

1 Regularly hide your handbag in the house and don't look for it until a couple of hours have passed. This will give your brain a wonderful workout as you struggle to remember where the hell you have put it.

2 Overspend and treat yourself as often as possible. Use your numerical skills to work out how you are going to pay off your credit card bill.

3 Use research to keep your slang up to date. Nothing is so aging as using phrases such as 'browned off'.

4 Try walking backwards to Christmas. This will exercise both your physical and mental capacities

5 If you want to avoid an awful future, please buy my book at once.

You are obese, you stupid woman. You ate too much.

You have dementia, you idiot. You didn't buy fish oil/eat enough fruit and veg/take exercise.

Where will it stop?

Quite apart from that, you can't stop brains becoming diseased that easily.

As I said - codswallop. Total.

The final sentence is the most ridiculous.

It was only a short time ago that research was published showing that mental exercises, such as sudoku and crosswords, had no benefit to the brain but physical exercise had some.

I don't know anything about this woman's organisation. Does anyone else?

Oh now I get your point jingl ...... it's the ridiculous notion that we are somehow responsible for the state of our own health? It was the bit about being obese and eating too much that gave me the clue.

vegas I certainly get plenty of mental exercise working out where I was when I was last wearing my glasses. The most humiliating answer of course being that I have already got them on
jingl what are you getting so worked up about?
Yes the blog has limited value because we knew all that already, and it is written in a simplistic, if not patronising, tone.
But advising people how they might be able to reduce their risk of something is not at all the same thing as blaming them if they succumb.

I look at stuff like this article and if I'm interested I read it and if not (as in this instance) I think "Well, they have to find content for the website somewhere" (not always easy) and then I get on with my day. Life's too short - and so is my memory!

So, one woman dies of her cancer. Another one survives. Did the first woman not "fight" the disease?

To anyone who can find any merit at all or even partly condones this article, I can only say I personally find it distressing.
My DH is/was a FRICS and a Chief Officer with a very large MBC.
He played football and cricket into his 30's then took up squash and golf,the latter he played until his 70's .Healthy eating,loves red wine and has perfect blood pressure. Until we started the investigations which diagnosed his dementia his he hadn't been to the Dr for about 14 years so were did we go wrong? The answer of course is that we didn't go wrong.
Dementia can,and will, strike anywhere.

Surplus "his" in there!

My father never touched fish in his life, he hated it, oily or white. He didn't have a touch of dementia to the end of his days.

annsixty I'm sorry to hear that and of course you didn't go wrong.

Don't drink too much. Don't get obese. Breastfeed all your children. Don't take HRT. Do exercise (and/or yoga). Make sure you come from a family that has no history of breast cancer and you will be fine.
Another load of codswallop.
As recent studies in the USA have shown, most of it is just down to chance.

People with larger brains or who took more education are protected against dementia

Really? Really??
If I am reading that correctly, that statement has to be 100% false in my opinion.

No. 9. I doubt, and I dont see how it could be proved in any way in my opinion.

If you’re eating good things with a glass of wine and dancing to music, at the very least you’re enjoying life to the full now.

I dont like that as a sentence. Someone who is experiencing domestic abuse can be doing those things. I very much doubt that the person is enjoying life, let alone life to the full.

So if you get dementia you’ll continue to do that, because you’ve had lots of practice

Do they mean still enjoy life?? Still dance and eat good food and have a glass of wine??

I think people still do remember how to dance; my SIL dances a lot and some of their group have dementia and can still dance.
However, dancing does not prevent you from getting dementia if you apply that criterion

Try this for size you need to read all of it if you are to get the best from it, but pages 7-11 are most relevant.

I have nursed many people with dementia including academics, doctors, judges and ex leaders of industry.
I have also seen a film of a math genius whose MRI scan shows very little brain with a big void in the centre.
Again stupid incorrect research.