Silversword, I didn't say you were wrong, I said tumeric is not all that spicy. It doesn't matter who said it was spicy, what matters is that now people who read this post will know that that is not true. If that isn't a contradiction... I didn't say you were wrong... what matters is that people...will know that that is not true. Spicy does not necessarily mean hot. It can mean piquant, pungent, heavily spiced... etc. To some people, it is a bit over the top. Obviously someone at BBC thought it was spicy. You don't. That doesn't mean you're right and they are wrong. A "little peppery" to you may mean HOT to another person. For someone so concerned with getting it accurate to the umpteenth degree this personal opinion being given as blanket truth is misleading. I find it a little more than irritating that this forum is constantly bogged down with your opinion that you and only you have the correct answers. Sometimes there is no correct answer. Is turmeric spicy? Depends on who is eating it. I think a more accurate statement would have been for you to say "I don't find turmeric particularly spicy". What matters to me is that researchers are saying the compound in turmeric may prevent Alzheimer's. This is interesting to me. It could have led to a discussion on regional diets and their effects on the brain and body. It could have led to a discussion of favorite uses of turmeric. Instead it turned into another pi**ing contest. For me, it's boring. It's tiring. It's less than educational. And it isn't any fun. I don't dislike you Brendan, I just have a hard time paying attention to anything you say because it comes across as so condescending.

Hi AuroraWA: You are right about the genetic factor which raise the risk of PD & plus more sensitive to pesticides. Not everyone is allergic to raisins like my kid, she has hay fever and many food allergies, which make her sensitive to pesticides. Raisins also has sulfur dioxide added as preservative. Sulfur dioxide is highest in yellow raisins, and that's her favorite for the past years. Thank God that my kid stops stuttering and neck-muscle-spasm after removal of raisins and dirty-dozen produce from her diet. Sam's Club, Walmart, and Trader's Joe all have organic produce at decent price. Genetic factor: if I have 1/4 cup of wine, I break out in rash rather than muscle-spasm. There's a genetic factor in Parkison's which makes a person more sensitive to pesticides. In my previous link on PD and hereditary, a twin posted on how his identical twin has PD, and he doesn't, see below link: "My identical twin brother has had Parkinson's for 14 years or so and has diskonesia; a side effect from the drugs he takes to manage his parkinsons. As we know identical twins start out from one egg and split into equal parts. Needless to say I don't have Parkinson's and can guarantee I will not get it. My twin brother is confined to his unit where he lives mostly and has cracked 9 ribs as well as his sturnum with the many falls caused by parkinsons." http://www.caring.com/questions/parkinsons-disease-hereditary Here's an excerpt from WebMD: "The UCLA researchers also found that people with a common variant of the ALDH2 gene are particularly vulnerable to these ALDH-inhibiting pesticides, according to a university news release. People with the variant are two to six times more likely to develop Parkinson's than those without the variant when exposed to the pesticides. The levels at which the pesticides inhibit ALDH are much lower than those at which they are currently used, according to the study in the Feb. 5 online issue of the journal Neurology ... "These pesticides are pretty ubiquitous, and can be found in our food supply and are used in parks and golf courses and in pest control inside buildings and homes." http://www.webmd.com/parkinsons-disease/news/20140203/more-pesticides-linked-to-parkinsons-risk From the below link: "According to the Parkinson’s Disease Foundation: Epidemiological research has identified several factors that may be linked to Parkinson’s, including rural living, well water, manganese and pesticides. Some studies have demonstrated that prolonged occupational exposure to certain chemicals is associated with an elevated risk of PD [Parkinson’s disease]. These include the insecticides permethrin and beta-hexachlorocyclohexane (beta-HCH), the herbicides paraquat and 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid and the fungicide maneb. In 2009, the US Department of Veterans Affairs added Parkinson’s to a list of diseases possibly associated with exposure to Agent Orange.” Separate research has further revealed that ambient exposure to organophosphate pesticides also increased the risk of developing Parkinson’s disease.6 Rotenone and paraquat are two additional pesticides linked to an increased risk of Parkinson's disease, and both are lipophilic, meaning they resist breaking down in water and accumulate in your fat. Both are also known to cross your blood-brain barrier. Dousing our crops with large amounts of glyphosate ��" the active ingredient in Monsanto’s broad-spectrum herbicide Roundup ��" may be another factor in the rising rates of Parkinson’s disease we’re now seeing,7 as these residues are found in all virtually all food containing genetically modified ingredients. " Here is a link that might be useful: Pesticides that trigger PD This post was edited by Strawberryhill on Wed, Oct 8, 14 at 9:39

That was the most touching video, I sat here weeping with gratitude. My Mom died of Alzheimer's and we sang together right up to the end. We communicated in a different way but touched each other deeply. I massaged her arms, legs and feet several times a week as did my siblings. She was one of the fortunate ones who was never left alone even though she was in a nursing home at the end. We took turns. You are wonderful friends to your pal. You truly show your humanity and that's the best you can do. As she changes, so will you and in a better way. God bless all of you.

Chisue, you raise some very good questions. In my 40+ years of hospital nursing, I have seen heartbreaking instances of people with advanced dementia being forced to undergo life extending procedures -- such as open heart surgery! -- because their family members felt that it was the right thing to do. But, they fail to see the terror, the pain, the combativeness, the inability to leave drains and IVs and wounds alone, the patient sometimes injuring themselves or a staff member, and so on, because he/she is unable to comprehend what is being done to them or why, and unable to feel safe in such a foreign environment. Then those family members come in and demand that the patient not be receiving sedation or pain medication because it leaves them drowsy when the family wants to interact with them. And, those families often have failed to understand that Alzheimer's, for one, is itself a fatal disease. One of the ways that medicine has changed in the past 40 years is the way that we respond to fatal illness -- back then, we wouldn't put terminally ill or advanced dementia patients on life support, or ask families if they wanted us to "do everything, including CPR", when we knew that would be futile or merely extending their dying process. We just didn't (and I think society in general didn't) consider it a reasonable option: Now, we are obligated to do just that. I made the decision on the behalf of both of my parents -- who each had dementia of different types, my mother from repeated cerebellar strokes, my father from microvascular ischemia -- that they would receive comfort care only in the event of a major illness. Therefore, any treatment would be solely for the sake of relieving pain, shortness of breath, and so forth; not to extend life just for the sake of extending life. I feel strongly that we need to respect the gift of life, however we are designed to have our lives end and we need to respect that and recognize that death is sometimes a gift also.