Dementia risk 'increased by HRT'

[NashVegas]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/3829925.stm

Major research suggests hormone replacement therapy may increase the risk of developing dementia.

It had been thought that HRT could be used as a treatment to delay or prevent the onset of dementia.

But the US Women's Health Initiative study in the Journal of the American Medical Association found oestrogen-only HRT may increase dementia risk.

Previous findings from the group had showed an increased risk from taking combined HRT.

It's okay though, because with the new Bush proposals for mental health, we'll all be evaluated and then given even more drugs.

[aquart]

1. So it's get old or go nuts? Gee, thanks.

[SoCalDem]

2. People were never intended to be "forever-young"..

Science has been tweaking things for a long time, and there are consequences..

Have you heard that many more men are now getting breast cancer?? Maybe pumping our beef supply full of estrogen wasn't such a good idea after all..

I think the time will come, when lots of the debilitating "diseases" of the elderly will be attributed to a lifetime of eating adulterated food.:(

[NashVegas]

3. We Are the First Generation

That grew up eating mega-processed food, thanks to science and two-working-parent families.

fun being a guinea pid, ain't it?

[SoCalDem]

4. actually, I was lucky

I spent my childhood in a foreign country and ate only fresh foods..Not even much frozen stuff..

My USA hometown did not get a "fast food" place until I was a senior in high school..

It's the people who are in their 20's & 30's who might have been "raised" on adulterated foods..

We were always cheapskates, and consequently, our kids were not fed junk foods.. and when we did go to restaurants, it was to real restaurants with real food..

Cookies & cakes were always made by Mom (me!)..and my kids did not even have store bread until they were in school.. ( I was a stay-at-home Mom who loved to bake )

None of my boys have allergies or are overweight...I think if you arte not exposed to that stuff until you are an adult, or nearly, it's not as toxic..

Of course that does not preclude the damage that you cannot avoid. We have no control over what goes into the food chain via chemicals & additives.:(..and if we live long enough..SOMETHING is gonna get us :(

[aquart]

5. As opposed to generations that grew up eating

pretty much nothing at all.

Seen the old graveyards with the masses of dead in their thirties and forties? And the endless child graves?

You'll be bitching about processed food well into your 60s, 70s, 80s.