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Managing Menopause Alzheimer’s Disease The trouble for me in writing about Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is that it’s very hard – virtually impossible, actually – to say anything funny about AD, and although some of you will undoubtedly chirp up that, “Well, hey, Art, you really don’t say anything funny about anything any time you write,” in my defense I can at least say that I actually do try to find the odd funny thing to say about most conditions; yes, I know, I may not succeed very often, but believe me, I do try. AD defeats me, though, mostly because 1) it’s a terrifying condition both for the person who has it and also for the family of the AD patient, and 2) there’s been so little real progress on AD in any of the areas you’d really want progress on with any condition, namely prevention, early detection, and of course, treatment. So not only is it hard to be funny about AD, it’s even hard to be optimistic. In fact, an expert consensus panel that met last year on behalf of the US government to review our current state of knowledge about AD came to just about the most depressing conclusions that you can come to about any illness. Thus, the panel’s consensus was that we’re not good at diagnosing AD in its earliest stages , we’re not good at figuring out which one of us with a failing memory – and that’s nearly everyone over the
age of 15, I think, but certainly all of us baby boomers and beyond - will go on to develop AD and which ones of us just has, you know, what was that, oh yes, a memory that isn’t working as well as it used to (I think I once had a good memory, but frankly, I can’t remember any longer), we don’t know very much at all about preventing AD (the panel actually said we know nothing about AD prevention), and perhaps most disturbing that our treatments leave a lot to be desired. Pretty grim, eh. So what good things are there to say about AD? Well, for a start, and this is small comfort, I know, but it’s a start: the looming prospect of millions of baby boomers with AD, which is not just a concern in western nations but in developing nations as well, is such a threat to every health care system in the world that for now and for the foreseeable future, AD is and will continue to be one of the 2 or 3 health problems on which most research is done not only by big Pharma, but also by small drug companies, by independent researchers, in fact, by anyone interested in making a name for him or herself simply because the pay-off – that dynamic duo of money and fame - for any sort of useful product – a test, a preventive strategy, a treatment – is immense. Money talks, and in this case, money is screaming. Thus, for example, as I write this (and I run Continued On Page 11
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Smoking Cessation Why does this subject usually appear in January? Perhaps it’s because the start of the year is the time for resolutions. It’s a new year, so let’s try something fresh and new. Maybe one could take up jogging, knit a sweater, clean the garage, read ‘War and Peace’, or just floss their teeth everyday. Quitting smoking (or as those in health care say ‘smoking cessation’) is a great idea for a resolution. I have a better idea; if you really want to quit smoking, rip out this article and tape it to the April section of your calendar. January is a terrible time for resolutions: it’s cold, your indoors most days, it’s stressful (with Christmas bills, maybe?) and full of celebrations. This way you can agree to other New Year’s resolutions. Then when April rolls around, and you have forgotten what you resolved to do in January, you can start fresh. Sounds good, right? Great! Now lets start scaring you a little bit. There are so many reasons to quit smoking; perhaps one could say they outnumber the reasons to continue smoking? Let's mention a few. Smoking is really bad for your health, it can harm the people around you and it can make you smell bad. It is also very expensive; let’s do some math, shall we? Let’s assume you smoke one pack a day for 1 year, or 5 years. Let’s also assume that a pack of cigarettes costs $10. Instead of putting this money up in smoke, so to speak, you could put it in the bank at 1% interest, how much would you make? After one year it will be $3600, not bad. After 5 years $18,000! After 10 years you will have saved $38,000!! Want to know some bigger money numbers? In 2010, Imperial Tobacco earned over $2.4 billion US, which was up 126% from the previous year. Another study
found that each pack of cigarettes actually cost you $150. This 'real' cost includes average lost wages, health care costs and decreases in quality of life. Let's get to the real scary part. Which is healthier for you, smoking or sucking on the tailpipe of a car? Hard to tell, but you won’t get lead from gasoline unlike cigarette smoke. You will also inhale carbon monoxide, tar, acetone (found in nail polish remover), toluene (paint thinner), styrene (synthetic rubber), cadmium, formaldehyde, acrylonitrile (nasty stuff), and many more from cigarette smoke. Actually, car exhaust might be healthier for you. The average concentration of carbon monoxide in car exhaust is 7000 ppm (parts per million). In clean air it is about 0.02 ppm. In cigarette smoke it is 30,000 ppm! I could go on and list more scary stuff, but let's look at the benefits of quitting smoking. There are so many reasons to quit smoking. One of them is to improve your health. Here are a few facts from Health Canada about how quickly your health can improve after you quit smoking. • Within 20 minutes your blood pressure drops and pulse rate decreases. • At 8 hours, the carbon monoxide level drops and the oxygen level in your blood increases to normal • Within 48 hours, your chances of having a heart attack starts to go down and your sense of smell and taste begin to improve. • Within 72 hours, your lungs work better and breathing becomes easier. • Within 2 weeks to 3 months your blood circulation improves and your lung functioning increases up to 30 Continued On Page 8
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percent . • After 1 year, your risk of a smoking-related heart attack drops by half. • At 5 years, your risk of having a stroke is reduced to that of a non smoker. • After 15 years, your risk of dying of a heart attack is the same as someone who has never smoked. So where do you start? The first thing to do is to learn what causes you to smoke. There are two parts to a smoking habit; the physical addiction to nicotine and the conditioned response to certain ‘triggers’. The physical addiction to nicotine is tough to break, but not impossible. Usually, the physical cravings will diminish after 3-4 days and be almost gone after 10 days. However, the triggers are very difficult to eliminate because they are always present. For example, some people smoke while they drive to work. So when you get in the car and turn the key, your physical cravings for nicotine is triggered. I recommend that you write down these triggers in order to find a pattern. Once you know your trigger pattern, you can start to avoid them or change your responses to them.
Two of the best ways to change your response to smoking triggers are to delay and/or distract. When you feel that urge to smoke, delay it. Even just for 30 seconds. The next time delay 35 seconds, or longer. This is a good idea for two reasons. Firstly, if you can delay lighting up long enough, the craving might fade away on its own. Most cravings will pass after 5 minutes. Secondly, it is a bit of an exercise in control; you are now in control of your cravings, not the other way around. The next thing to do is to distract. Distractions will make the delay pass by easier and not seem as long. Get outside and walk around the house for 30 seconds. Slowly sip a glass of cold water. Try some deep breathing or sing a song. Anything to help make the delay last longer, or even outlast the craving. Then if you must smoke, make it unpleasant. Go and smoke outside, or even better at the end of your driveway. If people give you funny looks, tell them you are trying to quit smoking. Odds are you will receive words of encouragement. What about over the counter medicines to help with smoking cessation? There are two general categories, Continued On Page 10
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The Power of Probiotics Your stomach is home to a sensitive balance of microorganisms that include “good” bacteria called probiotics. By inhibiting the growth of harmful microorganisms, probiotics stabilize your stomach’s ecosystem, thereby improving nutrient absorption and preventing bloating, diarrhea and traveller’s illness. Probiotics also metabolize cholesterol, which reduces cholesterol levels in your blood. When probiotic levels are insufficient — due to diet, stress, antibiotics, caffeine or alcohol — a supplement can boost your immune system and keep your stomach on an even keel. Talk to your Peoples Pharmacist on how probiotics can help with your health and wellness.
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by blocking the enzyme cyclooxygenase2 which promotes inflammation and cell division and is found in high levels in tumors. In the study, published in The Lancet, researchers found the 20-year risk of death was reduced by about 10 percent for prostate cancer, 30 percent for lung cancer, 40 percent for colorectal or bowel cancer and 60 percent for oesophageal cancer in those taking ASA. Reductions in pancreas, stomach and brain cancers were difficult to quantify because of smaller numbers of deaths. The researchers added, however, that treatment with ASA during the trials lasted for only between four and eight years on average, so the effects on risk of deaths due to cancer may underestimate possible results of longer-term treatment. Do not take ASA long term without consulting your doctor. Talk to your doctor about the benefits and risks of low dose ASA. peoplesdrugmart.com People First 9
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the nicotine patches and the nicotine gums or inhalers. Which option you chose will depend on what and when your triggers occur. As a general rule, if your triggers are often and follow a regular pattern throughout the day, the nicotine patches might be the best for you. The patches are designed to provide you with a constant amount of nicotine all day long. This helps to reduce the physical cravings for nicotine. It is NOT a good idea to smoke while wearing a patch; you might get more nicotine than you are accustomed to. Other side effects include skin irritation and difficulty sleeping. Ask your Peoples Pharmacist for help in selecting which nicotine patch might be right for you. There are also prescription medications that can help with smoking cessation. Ask you Doctor or Peoples Pharmacist about Bupropion (Zyban®) or Varenicline (Champix®). Both of these medications are very effective in helping to reduce the cravings for nicotine and reduce the withdrawal symptoms. In some cases, they can improve your chances of successfully quitting by 2-3 fold. If over the counter options have not worked, consider visiting your Doctor for a prescription.
Here are a few more words of advice. If you must smoke immediately upon waking up or smoke just before bed, you should consult your physician before deciding to quit. This indicates a strong physical addiction and you may require prescription medications. Don’t get discouraged if you are unable to quit on your first attempt. This is not unusual. Learn where your plan (NOT YOU) went wrong and try again next month. People often succeed after a few attempts. Once you are smoke free, constantly remind yourself and the people around you, that you are a non-smoker. After one month give yourself a small reward for quitting smoking; perhaps a nice dinner out or a new iPod. Then promise yourself a larger reward after six months. Use the money you saved to go on vacation; you earned it and deserve it. Good luck. For more excellent information about quitting smoking visit www.quitnow.ca. Written by Ian Lloyd, Pharmacist and Chartered Herbalist, Peoples Pharmacy
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across something similar every day), a German company has just announced that it has developed a drug that halted the progress of AD in specially-bred mice, and that the company hopes to begin trials on humans in less than 2 years. Now, clearly, it’s a long, long road to travel between something that halts a chemical change in a mouse and something that halts a disease in a human, but that is the way science makes progress. Then, there’s the important issue of prevention. So, despite the aforementioned expert panel’s conclusion that we don’t know very much about preventing AD, I would dare to disagree (it’s easy for me to do that since the panel members don’t have a clue who I am, nor would they care if they did know me – the luxury of being a small fish in a small pond). I am pretty sure, you see, that we do know how to lower the risk of AD although we can’t prove it to the level these experts require, namely we know that using the same preventive strategies that we apply to other debilitating chronic conditions – Type 2 diabetes, heart disease, strokes, even come cancers - also works for preventing (or at least postponing the development of) AD. For example, we know that having Type 2 diabetes is linked with a higher risk of also being diagnosed eventually with AD, so It only stands to reason that even if we can’t “prove” it (these kinds of proofs require very large and expensive, and hence very hard to arrange studies; after all, remember how long it took and how hard it was to arrange a good-enough study to prove – as I had been arguing for years – that hormone replacement therapy for menopause simply didn’t do all the good things nearly everyone else was claiming it did?), preventing Type 2 diabetes should also, I am certain, lower the risk of getting AD. And in case you’ve forgotten, the best way to lower the risk of Type 2 diabetes is to maintain a healthy
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weight, to do some regular exercise, and to eat a healthy diet. One thing that clearly doesn’t work, though, at least not once AD has set in, is to take a lot of extra fish oil capsules. Hence, to the great disappointment of the researchers who did this work, a study published recently in JAMA found no benefit in slowing the progress of AD from fish oil capsule supplementation in a group of people who had already developed AD. Whether it’s useful to give fish oil capsules to people at higher risk of AD but who haven’t yet developed the symptoms is still debatable, although I would argue that it’s unlikely to work: I just don’t think that taking extra capsules of any sort – vitamins, anti-oxidants, fish oils, you name it - will ever mimic the effect of eating a healthy diet. (By the way, I also believe that drinking lots of coffee lowers your risk of developing Type 2 diabetes, and hence, it should also lower your risk of developing AD, but that’s a much harder sell). Bottom line is that it’s currently dark on the AD front, but it sort of reminds me of what it was like in the early years of AIDS: no good tests, no preventive strategies, absolutely no therapies, and an amazing amount of pessimism about the future. But look where we are today with AIDS – we know what causes it, we know how to prevent it (although we clearly aren’t nearly proficient enough at selling those preventive strategies to many highrisk groups) and we have some very effective treatments, with even better ones in the pipeline. And I fully believe that we’re close to similar breakthroughs with AD (hey, I have to believe it: I’m fast approaching that point in life when I’m in the higher-risk population. Yikes!)
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Snacking Strategies When I was growing up, our family sat together and ate three square meals a day. Mom liked to bake goodies to pop into our lunch bag but more often than not when I whined about being hungry between meals, she would point at the fruit bowl and tell me to wait for the next mealtime. She was a thrifty shopper and a good cook. We ate little convenience food with exceptions that fell in line with holiday celebrations and having a treat every now and then. That was over 40 years ago and considered to be a fairly standard game plan in most homes. Today’s trends look quite different. Snacking has permeated our culture to such a degree that it has become the norm for people to eat on the go and food manufactures are happy to feed this trend. The trouble with this strategy is that often people are not really connected to how much they are really eating and they bulk up on empty calories in place of health promoting foods. There is a difference between healthy snacking and mindlessly grazing your way through the day. Most mainstream diet literature encourages a couple healthy snacks per day to keep the metabolism revved up and to curb the tendency to binge because hunger gets the better of you. So permission to snack between meals has been granted but now we have to put that into perspective. It does not mean sitting down and eating your way through package of cookies or bag of chips and chasing it down with a sugary soda. It is far too easy to overeat when we are not really connected to what we are putting in our mouth and it does not take long for this to show up on the scale. Lets talk numbers. 3500 calories stand between you and a pound of weight gain or weight loss. And it does not take long for those numbers to add up. Even an increase in 100 extra calories a day can mean you are gaining almost a pound every month. And it is very easy to do this when we just rummage or reach for whatever is handy or convenient when a hunger pang strikes. Meal planning and portion control are the tickets to success here. Allowing for a strategic snack in the morning and an-
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other in the afternoon can keep your brain alert and your energy levels up. As I walk down the aisles in the supermarket, I see that the food industry has begun to help the consumer out here by pre-packaging foods into 100-calorie servings. This is a good strategy but it does add to the cost of the product and the extra packaging is far from being ecologically sound. You can do the same thing by buying foods in bulk and carefully measuring out a portion and sticking to it. Reusable containers make these foods easy to take with you as you go about your day. There is nothing worse than having a snack attack when your only outlet may be a vending machine. A modest candy bar can weigh in between 200 and 300 calories. Many granola based bars aren’t much better. These are my top ten favourite 100-calorie snacks that help me feel satisfied between meals; 1. A hard-boiled egg and 1⁄2 ounce of carrot sticks 2. 1⁄2 cup of grapes with 1⁄4 cup of low fat cottage cheese and a few almonds 3. Half a small apple with 2 teaspoons of almond butter 4. 25 pistachios and a stalk of celery 5. 1 cup of plain non-fat yogurt sweetened with stevia and a splash of vanilla 6. 1 ounce of light cheese and 1⁄2 of a medium pear 7. 2 rye crisps with 1⁄2 ounce of low fat cream cheese 8. 10 almonds with 1 medium carrot 9. 1⁄2 a medium banana with 1⁄2 tablespoon of peanut butter 10. 3 ounces of turkey breast lunch-meat wrapped around pickle slices Statistics are showing escalating rates of obesity in our general population and suggest that youth today are much heavier than those a few decades ago. Our youth snack far more than any other generation and they are not always opting for healthy food choices. The early years are the best years to instill proper eating habits that will stick with them for life. The best way to teach a child is through modeling proper food choices. It is a win-win strategy that will benefit the whole family. Good Health to You!
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LOWER MAINLAND
VANCOUVER • 7160 Kerr St. 434-2656 • 571 West 57th Ave. 324-2258 BURNABY • 4218 Dawson St. 299-6677 NEW WESTMINSTER • 825 McBride Ave. 525-2474 PORT COQUITLAM • 2529 Shaughnessy 941-2413 COQUITLAM • 137-3030 Lincoln Ave. 464-1033 MAPLE RIDGE • 12005-238B Street 476-1420 ABBOTSFORD • 1945 McCallum Rd. 859-2351
SURREY • 110– 6350 120 St. 507-3999 • #104A-8140 120th. 778-565-3411 • #177-8138-128th St. 598-3233 • 10212 -152nd St. 580-7457 WHITE ROCK • 1463 Johnston Rd 531-4636
VICTORIA
• #102-2020RichmondRd. 370-1166 • 9-4144 Wilkinson Rd. At Interurban Rd. 881-7503
VANCOUVER ISLAND
• SOOKE 8-6716 Sooke Rd. 642-2226 GOLD RIVER • 375 Nimpkish Drive 283-9042 UCLUELET VICTORIA • 3825 Cadboro Bay Rd. • 1892 Peninsula Rd. 477-2131 726-2733 • 15-1594 Fairfield COURTENAY 598-9232 • 102-1350 England • 1282 Fairfield Rd. 334-9311 595-5997 CAMPBELL RIVER • #101-2276 S.IslandHwy. • 2642 Quadra St. 923-7311 383-1188 • 3643 Shelbourne St. • #984 Shoppers Row 287-8311 477-1881
VANCOUVER ISLAND OKANAGAN QUADRA ISLAND • 5-654 Harper Road 285-2275 PORT McNEILL • 1584 Broughton St. 956-3126 PORT HARDY • 100-8950 Granville St. 949-9522
CENTRAL NORTH
MACKENZIE • 700 Mackenzie 997-5460
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KOOTENAYS
KELOWNA • 1715 Ellis St. 712-2484 • #104-330 Hwy. 33 491-1999 • 200-3591 Elliot Rd. 768-7645 PENTICTON • 166-1848 Main St. 493-7200 CHASE • 825 Shuswap 679-8941 SCOTCH CREEK • 3874 Squilax Anglemont 955-0601 REVELSTOKE • 555 Victoria Rd 837-5191
KAMLOOPS • 103-275 Lansdowne St. 374-3112 LYTTON • 531 Main Street 455-6685 PEACE RIVER ASHCROFT CHETWYND • 403 Railway Ave. E. • 4733 - 51 Street 453-2553 788-3393 st
TRAIL • 1101 Dewdney Ave. 364-1993 ROSSLAND • 2060 Columbia Ave. 362-5622 FRUITVALE • 1942 Main Street 367-9331 SALMO • 107 - 4th St. 357-9444 SPARWOOD • 107 Centennial Square 425-2015 NAKUSP • 88 Broadway St. 265-2228 NELSON • 405 Hendryx St. 352-3121 CRANBROOK • East Kootenay Hospital 13 -24th Ave. North 420-4133
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