The Winds of Windsor

November 2020. A Publication of Windsor Medical Center

LAUGHING MATTERS!

• I’m sure all of you have heard the phrase “laughter is the best medicine”, but there are some studies that show laughter does have significant benefits to our bodies and our health. Some of these benefits include: stimulating organs, increases endorphins (our feel-good hormone), relieve pain, relieve stress, improve our immune system, improve mood, and burn calories.
  So, go ahead and give it a try. These short funny stories should help!
• -” Cash or credit card?” asked the sales lady to a woman shopper. As the woman struggled with her purse, the remote control for a YV set came tumbling out onto the counter. “Do you always carry your TV remote around with you?” she asked the woman. “No,” she replied, “but I asked my husband to come shopping with me and he refused, so this is the most severe punishment I can give him that’s still legal.
• -A little girl had just finished her first week of school. “I’m wasting my time,” she said to her mother, “I can’t read, I can’t write, and they won’t let me talk!”
  -A woman was trying hard to get ketchup out of a jar. During her struggle, the phone rang so she asked her for four years old to answer it. She heard her say “Mommy can’t come to the phone to talk to you right now, she is hitting the bottle”.
• -One of my wife’s third-graders was wearing a Fitbit watch, which prompted my wife to ask, “Are you tracking your steps?” “No,” said the little girl. “I wear this for my mommy so she can show daddy when he gets home.”
• -A man boasts to his friends about his new hearing aid, ‘It’s the most expensive one I’ve ever had, it cost me $3,500.’ His friend asks ‘what kind is it?’ The braggart says ‘half pas four.’
• -A husband was reading a newspaper article to his wife. “Women use about 30,000 to a man’s 15,000” he read. “That’s because we have to repeat everything we say to men,’ she replied. Her husband put down the paper and said “WHAT?”

 

DID YOU KNOW….

-November is Alzheimer’s Awareness Month.
-Alzheimer’s is the most common cause of dementia, which is a general term for the loss of cognitive ability.
-It is estimated that 5.8 million Americans are living with Alzheimer’s, making it the 6th leading cause of death in the U.S. By 2050 that the number is projected to nearly triple to 13.8 million.
-One in 10 people age 65 or older had Alzheimer’s dementia.
-Almost two-thirds of Americans with Alzheimer’s are women.
-The brain only weighs 3 pounds but is our most powerful organ.
-Alzheimer’s disease cause brain cells and brain cell connections to degenerate and die, eventually destroying not only memory but other important mental functions. These include thinking, planning, organizing, judgment, behavior, and personality.
-Approximately 80% of the 16 million American caregivers are family members and in 2019 they provided an estimated 18.6 billion hours of unpaid care.
-Alzheimer’s and other dementias cost the U.S. $259 billion. By 2050 that number will reach $1 trillion.
-Even individuals in advanced stages of the disease can still hold emotional memories. This means they can still remember how someone or something made them feel long after they have forgotten the person or event that brought those feelings.
-Between 2000 and 2018 deaths from heart disease have decreased 7.8%, while deaths from Alzheimer’s have increased by 146%.

 

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