Three ways to die

[Benipete]

Originally Posted by jambutty

The latest research suggests that statins reduce the chances of developing Alzheimer’s disease by 50%.

I take Simvastatin as part of the heart medication regime.

Well you should be alright as long as you don't forget where you put them.

[West Ender]

It never fails to amaze me that people get all fired up about fillings, sweetners etc. but continue to smoke. Now, I've been there and done that. I've got 5 fillings in my teeth and I drink sugar-free drinks etc. but the thing that made me ill was cigarettes. Smoking was the reason I have to use an inhaler to help my lungs take in oxygen, without the inhaler my oxgen levels drop and my heart can't cope. It was smoking that caused it, there's no history of chest problems in my family until my father who smoked 50 a day and died from lung cancer aged 77.

I'll carry on with the Coke Zero, thanks, and continue to regret I ever thought smoking was "cool".

[MargaretR]

Everyone has the right to place themselves at risk.
Whose body is it after all!!
It is the risking without knowing that bothers me

[Bonnyboy]

Originally Posted by margaret@rothwell5.f

Everyone has the right to place themselves at risk.
Whose body is it after all!!
It is the risking without knowing that bothers me

I'll go along with that.

[West Ender]

I started smoking when I was 17, in 1960, and I didn't know the risks then either. They were known to the government in the 50s but the information wasn't made public for a long time.

[MargaretR]

Originally Posted by West Ender

I started smoking when I was 17, in 1960, and I didn't know the risks then either. They were known to the government in the 50s but the information wasn't made public for a long time.

Now we have the web we can assess the risks - no more secrets

[jaysay]

Originally Posted by margaret@rothwell5.f

Now we have the web we can assess the risks - no more secrets

That sounds like a cue for the Stranglers Margaret

[jambutty]

Originally Posted by margaret@rothwell5.f

Statins reduce you bodily intake of Vitamin B12.
The effect of B12 defiency creeps on you slowly over many years and is often misdiagnosed as MS, CFS, Parkinsons and Altzheimers because many of its symptoms are the same

PS I am not suggesting that you go against your docs advice - just want you to think 'Is he always right?

Your statement flies in the face of the ‘experts’. They state that statins help to reduce the onset of Alzheimer’s disease.

I bow to the superior knowledge of someone who has spent many years going through medical school and even many more years as a GP. Not forgetting Dr Myers the cardiologist who first prescribed them and subsequent specialists who concurred with his decision.

A little amateur knowledge can be more dangerous than no knowledge at all.

[jambutty]

Originally Posted by Benipete

Well you should be alright as long as you don't forget where you put them.

There is no chance of me forgetting where I put my pills, they are in open view where I can’t miss them.

However remembering to take them is another matter, especially the Warfarin. I’m supposed to take them at about 6.00pm but at that time I have often dozed off watching TV and by the time that I wake up the last thing on my mind is taking the Warfarin. Then suddenly during the evening I think to myself, “have I take my pills?” And I can’t remember if I have or not. But I’ve got round that problem by marking each pill in the blister packs with the days of the week.

[jambutty]

Originally Posted by West Ender

I started smoking when I was 17, in 1960, and I didn't know the risks then either. They were known to the government in the 50s but the information wasn't made public for a long time.

Yes the government has a lot to answer for in the smoking debate.

Back in ’54 sailors were allowed to buy 300 specially made cigarettes by BAT and two other tobacco companies, for 7 shillings and sixpence each month. That is six pence for twenty. We called them “Blue Liners” because each fag had a blue line running down the length of it. Sailors on ships in home waters and abroad could buy 800 branded fags per month for £2. That is one shilling for twenty when the same fags were three shillings and sixpence for twenty in civvy street. We could even buy Woodbines that were the same size as Players or Senior Service, known throughout the land as “Ship’s Woodbines” and much sought after in civvy street.

This concession was to all intents and purposes was encouraging sailors to smoke and even got some non-smokers to start.

If you have ever seen the newsreel footage of the troops coming home from Dunkirk, you would have seen that they were given a mug of tea by the nurses and a fag as they disembarked, even those on stretchers.

At least in those days smoking tobacco was much purer than it is today.