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Are you ready to unlock the secrets to timeless beauty? In an age where self care is celebrated and skincare is a hot topic, it's crucial to
New studies suggest older people can get small memory benefits from multivitamins. The data convinced a neuroscientist to start taking them.
The conventional wisdom in the medical community has long been that multivitamins are useless.
For years, study after study found no benefits from popping a multivitamin a day.
Professor Adam Brickman, who studies the aging brain at Columbia University, told Insider he hadn't popped a multivitamin since he was a kid when he started his most recent study of multivitamins for memory loss, roughly six years ago.
"I'm just as skeptical as anyone else when it comes to this stuff," Brickman said.
But a number of new and emerging studies — including his own — are starting to suggest the truth about multivitamins is complicated.
Brickman is the author of a large, rigorous study published earlier this year that showed men over the age of 60 and women over 65 who took a daily multivitamin (in this case, it was Centrum) were able to consistently perform better on common memory tests than those who took a placebo. A study from September 2022, using different memory tests, had similar results.
"When we start seeing that kind of consistency across well-designed studies, it certainly helps convince me — the ultimate skeptic — that we're on to something real," he said.
These new finds suggest aging brains may derive some small but real memory perks from popping a multivitamin a day. As a result, Brickman has started incorporating a multivitamin into his daily routine.
"I started taking multivitamins the day we ran the analyses and saw the results, and I take 'em every morning," he said.
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Israeli medical doctor Gai Peleg told Israeli television that in northern Italy the orders are not to allow those over 60 access to respiratory machines.
Italy suffered more coronavirus-related victims than China with 4,825 confirmed deaths and 5,000 confirmed patients in the last 24 hours, Channel 12 reported on Sunday. Israeli doctor Gai Peleg, who is currently working to save lives in Parma, Italy, told Channel 12 that things are only getting worse as the number of patients keeps growing.
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More money off deals for the over-60s
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Following on from yesterday’s blog about discounted travel for the over, here are some more money off deals for the over-60s starting with cinema:
Odeon – Enjoy discounted weekly Silver Cinema screenings for over-55s on a Wednesday at Odeon Cinema. Tickets are £3 and come with a hot drink and biscuit!
Showcase Cinema – If Wednesdays are no good, Showcase cinemas offer Senior Screenings on a…
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Discounted travel offers for the over 60s
#Discounted #traveloffers for the #over60s. There's a lot of savings to be made. Read my blog for details. #Retirement #Retiredlife #60YearsOld #60YearsYoung #BabyBoomers #Interrail #Buspass #Trainline #OysterCard #Camping #ferries #coaches #discounts
Sixty used to be when your pension started if you were a woman, nowadays many of us will have to wait until we’re 67. It made me wonder whether there’s anything these days you can get cheaper or free when you reach this lifetime landmark. In preparation I thought I’d do a bit of research and the answer is a resounding ‘yes’. There’s quite a lot, in fact, so I’m going to spread this information…
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Soapbox: Over 60's debating art and life
SOAPBOX; noun – a box or crate used as a makeshift stand by a public speaker; a soapbox orator; with reference to a situation in which someone expresses strong opinions about a particular subject.
Soapbox is a regular gathering that happens once a month for people near or beyond the age of 60 to discuss and debate art and life. Its hands-on gatherings often begin or end in the Digital Studio, augmented by other engagements across the Tate Britain.
As the series' founders write: "Where can we find examples of positive representations of older people? If not in the media at large, possibly here in Tate Britain? Many of the artists on display worked well into old age and were perhaps stronger due to this experience."
"When artist Suzanne Lacy created Silver Action, a large scale performance in Tate Modern in 2013, she brought together around 500 women ‘near or beyond the age of 60’ to talk about the points in their lives when they had felt they needed to take action politically – whether on a grand or a small scale. She wanted women’s voices and stories to be written into history, to be shared, listened to and witnessed."
"After this inspirational project we wanted to create a space for older voices at Tate. The Soapbox project enables us to share a platform, to exchange views and celebrate each other’s experience. Shouldn’t we give more space and more time to the authentic voices of older people? Isn’t the Museum exactly the right place to exercise our freedom of expression?"
Photos thanks to Maggie Connolly and Michele Fuirer.
No Money for Butter Club visits BFI Flare
Shine A Light group the No Money For Butter Club visited the BFI Flare festival last weekend to see their film Leg, Arm, Head by Scout Stuart. The film is the first Shine A Light film to be accepted to a UK festival.
Here’s an insight to their visit:
“No Money for Butter goes up to Town.”
So here we were, and it was unexpected, outwardly small, unceremoniously tucked under a London bridge, but for us, the venue of another hugely fun “premier” – the British Film Institute.
Neither of us, barring Sue’s request some years previously to her U.S. based, Oscar winning stepbrother to back the Institute’s fight for independence, had any connection with BFI and it was courtesy of Derby Quad’s Shine a Light project that we had come to see Scout Stuart’s film, “ Leg, Arm, Head.” at the Flare Festival, the annual, this year thirtieth, LGBT festival.
So it was that Sue and I, “No Money for Butter Club” reps settled in our seats to enjoy our first LGBT film festival.
Scout’s film, an esoteric, original, delicate enquiry into a means of coming to terms with one’s own true identity, had been selected to be shown within the theme of “ What Others Think”. Focussed entirely on a young ballerina, and without dialogue, “Leg, Arm, Head.” Is a fascinating, visually evocative “ coming of age” tale, sitting well beside the questioning, reflective, sometimes poignant, sometimes humorous, character of its five fellow shorts.
And with what eyes did we watch all six?
Firstly, with older eyes that had seen the progression of the LG community from, the illegal pariahs of the 50s and 60s, to our legal equality today.
Secondly, with very amateur, but certainly, since all the opportunities given by S.A.L., more knowledgeable eyes re. the processes of film making, particularly shorts.
And lastly, from the stance of art – we both love the visual beauty of colour and form.
And an hour and a half later, films watched, we, savouring Arabic food, washed down with macchiato from the throbbing street food market outside the BFI, talked – and these were our thoughts.
we liked the BFI building’s interior, surprised at all its rooms and screens, and loving its vibrancy, colour and comfort
we loved the opportunity to be amongst so many interested, interesting LGBT people, a rare treat for any rural county dweller
we were impressed by the very quality of the films made by these young people, setting out on their careers
we pondered on the necessity of remembering the past to ensure the future keeps going forward for LGBT equality and equity.
we wondered if the “kudos” gained from being a community of outsiders needs to be
re-lived by each generation, through story and film
we recalled a thought that Chris Bevan, director of a wonderful documentary for S.A.L. had voiced – that humour with a message is a very powerful tool
And most of all, we smiled together at the opportunity we’d been given to relish this event, by Derby Quad and the Shine a Light project – thank you very much.
Jen and Sue