Fruit juices and your meds

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FYI------------Research has shown that fruit juices can reduce the performance

of several medicines, including some antibiotics, certain types of beta-blockers

used to treat high blood pressure, certain cancer drugs, and medications used to

prevent rejection after an organ transplant. (American Chemical Society's

national meeing August 19 had healthy volunteers take a test drug, Allegra, with

water and with juice. With juice, the effectiveness was cut in half.

http://bulletin.aarp.org/yourhealth/discoveries/articles/other_juices_not_just_g\

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PERSONALITY AND LONGEVITY: An NIA team analyzed questionnaires from 2,359

healthy people in the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging, which began in

1958. The team found that those who scored above average for emotional

stability, for staying active physically and mentally and for conscientiousness

lived on average two or three years longer than those with lower scores. NIA

researcher Terracciano says it's not clear why those traits make a

difference in longevity.

http://bulletin.aarp.org/yourhealth/discoveries/articles/want_a_long_life_person\

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FATALITIES FROM MIXING DRUGS ON THE RISE: Excluding deaths by suicide or side

effects, researchers from the University of California, San Diego, focused on

fatal medication errors at home, primarily from overdoses and mixing

prescription drugs-especially painkillers-with alcohol and street drugs. The

steepest increase in deaths (890 percent) was among people in their 40s and 50s.

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WALKING YOUR WAY TO BETTER MENTAL HEALTH: The finding emerged from an 18-month

study, conducted by the University of Western Australia, of 170 men and women

over age 50 who reported experiencing memory problems but did not meet the

criteria for dementia. The volunteers were divided into two groups. One group

continued with usual activities while the other group participated in a 24-week

home-based physical activity program that encouraged participants to walk for 50

minutes, three times a week.

http://bulletin.aarp.org/yourhealth/discoveries/articles/walk_away_from_memory_l\

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HAPPINESS COMES WITH AGE ???? The interviewees, a representative sample of the

population, were asked whether they were very happy, pretty happy or not too

happy. It turned out that those over the age of 80 were the happiest of all,

with about half of them saying they were very happy. Although the boomers-born

from 1946 to 1964-were the least content, the hope is that their outlook will

improve with age.

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For your reading pleasure,

Lottie