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Could you be a dementia friend?
It is estimated that there are 19,000 people
living with dementia in Northern Ireland,
with approximately 2, 700 people living in
the Western Trust’s area. 25 million people
in the UK are closely connected with someone with dementia – that’s 40% of us. The
Alzheimer Society predicts that there may
be over 1 million people in the UK with Al
zheimer’s by 2021.
However, the Society says that talk of a
dementia “tidal wave” is alarmist and inappropriate as many people can learn to live
full dignified lives even with the condition.
Scare mongering may also stigmatise those
diagnosed with dementia as hopeless cases.
The focus should rather be on creating a
tolerant and supportive community that has
made a choice to include and engage with
people with dementia. The Society prefers to
look forward through its £2 million annual
research programme to a day when Altzheimers will be mastered and managed more
in achieving this, the Alzheime r’s Society is
supporting a campaign to create 1 million
“dementia friends” by 2021. The scheme has
already commenced in England but progress in Northern Ireland and Scotland will
depend upon the availability of funding.
What is a dementia friend?
Anyone can be a dementia friend. New
friends are trained initially for over one
hour where they are put through exercises
that put them in the shoes of a person with
dementia. This helps to understand the
emotional impact which confusion, physical disorientation and making mistakes in
public can have on someone. Friends begin
to appreciate that access to public services
and provision of everyday necessities such
as retail goods and services have not been
thought through by providers from the perEnlightened by the experience, friends are
encouraged to wear a “dementia friend”
badge indicating a willingness to help when
required. A million advocates for a dementia
friendly approach are bound to reach and
change most work places and organisations throughout the UK, challenging those
organisations to draft and implement a desist those with dementia.
What would a dementia friendly
charter contain?
Dementia policies usually begin with a mission statement to give those diagnosed with
dementia the same access to goods and services as everyone else and to safeguard the
dignity of the customer in the process. The
to organise home safety visits to help families and dementia candidates plan for fire
situations. The aim is to facilitate the aging
population to live independently in dignity
at home for as long as possible. Other organisations may assess buildings to ensure
that they are accessible with clear signs, easily remembered lay outs, and safe flat floors.
Excess noise and television monitors can be
very frightening so if such an environment
is unavoidable it may be worthwhile to think
about a quiet safe place of retreat where a
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person can be brought to induce calmness.
Where someone is bored or distracted it
may be necessary to provide a stimulating
environment with photographs and music
that relate to a person’s past. Security practices need to be reviewed so that everyone
is ready to deal with an emergency situation where a person becomes lost through
confusion or panic. Retail outlets and public
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inside are willing and able to look after them
and understand their circumstances. All of
these measures reduce the isolation of people with dementia and their carers and make
it easier for them to stay engaged with their
local communities.
A start has been made in the
North West
Here in the North West the Alzheimer’s
Society has started to create this type of
environment by organising Dementia Cafes on alternate Tuesday afternoons. One
week it is held in the Verbal Arts Centre,
Bishop Street Derry and the next in LCDI,
Limavady. They are open to people with dementia and their carers. The cafe runs from
12.30-3.30pm with lunch being provided at
12.30pm. In Strabane the Café is held on
the 2nd Wednesday of each month from
11.00am - 1pm in Room 2 in The
Library. This can provide carers
with a welcome respite as they
can share the responsibility to
fes. Often the carers are forgot-
ten but it should be remembered that they
too have needs. In recognition of this the
them in challenging any adverse decisions
that may be made about them or the people
they care for. They can also get advice on
the financial impact upon their incomes and
discuss diagnoses issues if they are worried.
Local people can access this service at the
The Society also runs Carer Support Groups
and peer support for the family and friends
of people with dementia and their carers.
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Daycentre, Seven Oaks FOLD, Crescent
Link, Waterside BT47 6DN. On the second
Wednesday of every month they meet from
7-9pm in Limavady - Cornfields Care Home
Seacoast Road Limavady. On the fourth
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Strabane – 7.30-8.30pm in Mulvey House,
Bridge Street, McGirr Park.
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Altzheimers. You may also like to fundraise
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Cheylene Murphy and Ryan McGroarty. From Derry - the UK Capital of Culture 2013 - they make blistering anti-pop, not entirely dissimilar in spirit from that legendary Derry band...the Undertones
The band have played America, Morocco, toured the UK and supported the
likes of New Young Pony Club, Castiotone For The Painfully Alone and The
Undertones amongst others, as well as playing on the Introducing stage at
Radio 1’s One Big Weekend
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Kieran Coyle in the role of Billy Doherty of the Undertones. The feel good film will nostalgically transport all the aging punks (now doctors, politicians
and civil servants!) back to those cutting edge days
when they got their “teenage kicks” from beating the
system and just playing the music they liked. It’s a bit
like Belfast’s answer to “The Commitments”. The story
about Belfast record producer and music shop owner
Terri Hooley features encounters with the Undertones
who Terri supported and promoted in his legendary
efforts to foster alternative music. Enter the present
day budding Derry Indie Rock band Wonder Villains
who played extras and gave the producers the loan of
their beloved Kieran who had to sport a magnificent
blonde head of hair for six months to play the part. In
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Friday 29th March 2013
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The Shirt Factory
Artists Gardens
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Academy Irish Dance
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Irish Trad Music Nightly
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Columba to conflict
Story of prisons 1-1 computer tutition
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Gordon Gallery
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City Factory
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Cultúrlann Uí Chanáin
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Peadar O’Donnell’s Bar
Gweedore Bar
Gasyard Heritage Centre
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Waterside Library
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Sport Football
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L Morrison & M Zabala
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E Lge D. City v S’bourne
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Saturday 30th March 2013
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L Morrison & M Zabala
G’yard Wall Feile
Royal Ballet
Disco
Blackshaw at 80
Void Gallery
B’side B’well Creggan
Millennium Forum
Gweedore Bar Upstairs
Gordon Gallery
Sunday 31st March 2013
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Comedy Festival
Dance
L Morrison & M Zabala
G’yard Wall Feile
Royal Ballet
Void Gallery
B’side B’well Creggan
Millennium Forum
Friday 22nd March 2013
Monday 1st April 2013
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Sport
Dance
Theatre
Music
Music
Children stories
Exhibition Art
World GAA Congress
Rhythm of the Dance
Dolly West’s Kitchen
The Elvis Experience
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Rhythm and Rhym Blackshaw at 80
The Venue 2013
Millennium Forum
The Playhouse
Waterside Theatre
Sandinos Club
Central Library
Gordon Gallery
Exhibition / Art
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Children / Young
Sport Football
Book Club L Morrison & M Zabala
G’yard Wall Feile”Feile Funnies”
Feis Dhoire Cholmcille
E Lge D. City v Bray Wand
Teenage Book Club
Void Gallery
B’side B’well Creggan
The Playhouse Theatre
Brandywell Stadium
Waterside library
Saturday 23rd March 2013
Tuesday 2nd April 2013
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L Morrison & M Zabala
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Blackshaw at 80
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Millennium Forum
The Playhouse
Sandinos Back Bar
Gweedore Bar Upstairs
Central Library
Gordon Gallery
Sunday 24th March 2013
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Music
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Wedding Fayre
World GAA Congress
L Morrison & M Zabala
Dominic Kirwan
Class Act School ….
Acad Irish dance
Wedding Fayre
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Void Gallery
Millennium Forum
The Playhouse
Millenium Forum
Everglades Hotel
Monday 25th March 2013
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Book Club L Morrison & M Zabala
Teenage Book Club
Void Gallery
Waterside library
Tuesday 26th March 2013
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Exhibition / Art
Dance Jive B’room
Theatre
Music
Exhibition Art
Dance Classes
L Morrison & M Zabala
Class Gnd Vintage Ball
.. Bottle .. Story to Tell
Elizabeth LaPrelle
Blackshaw at 80
Solas Flamenco W’kly
Void Gallery
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The Playhouse
Sandinos Back Bar
Gordon Gallery
Danske Bank Studio
Exhibition / Art
Children / Young
Conference
Book club for adults
L Morrison & M Zabala
Feis Dhoire Cholmcille
Ir America Peace Process Shantallow Book Club
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Void Gallery
The Playhouse Theatre
To Be Advised
Shantallow library
Wednesday 3rd April 2013
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Exhibition / Art
Children / Young
Children stories
Computer class
Writing Class
L Morrison & M Zabala
Feis Dhoire Cholmcille
Rhythm and Rhym Computer club
Creative Writing
Void Gallery
The Playhouse Theatre
Central Library
Central Library
Central Library
Thursday 4th April 2013
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Children / Young
Feis Dhoire Cholmcille
The Playhouse Theatre
Friday 5 April 2013
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Children / Young
Dance
Music
Comedy
Music / Food
Children stories
Feis Dhoire Cholmcille
H’land Dance Festival
Goitse (Irish Trad)
Allo ‘Allo
Lionel Richie Tribute
Rhythm and Rhym The Playhouse Theatre
Everglades Hotel
An Culturlann
Waterside Theatre
Waterfoot Hotel
Central Library
Saturday 6th April 2013
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Children / Young
Dance
Music
Music
Feis Dhoire Cholmcille
H’land Dance Festival
Jack L - The 27 Club
Disco
The Playhouse Theatre
Everglades Hotel
Millennium Forum
Gweedore Bar Upstairs
Sunday 7th April 2013
Wednesday 27th March 2013
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Comedy
Children stories
Computer class
Writing Class
Exhibition Art
L Morrison & M Zabala
Class G’nd Vintage Ball Jack Dee
Rhythm and Rhym Computer club
Creative Writing
Blackshaw at 80
Void Gallery
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Millennium Forum
Central Library
Central Library
Central Library
Gordon Gallery
Thursday 28th March 2013
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Exhibition / Art
Fashion hats
Comedy
Exhibition Art
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L Morrison & M Zabala
Catwalk Show
Jack Dee
Blackshaw at 80
Hatwalk - 2013
Void Gallery
Everglades Hotel
Millennium Forum
Gordon Gallery
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Waterside Theatre
Monday 8th April 2013
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For love . L Sexton
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Teenage Book Club
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The Playhouse
Central Library
Waterside library
Tuesday 9th April 2013
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Event Name
Venue
Theatre
Dance Jive B’room
Comedy / Food
For love . L Sexton
Class G’nd Vintage Ball
Hairy Bikers The Playhouse
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Millennium Forum
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Wednesday 10th April 2013
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Comedy / Food
Theatre
Children stories
Computer class
Writing Class
Photography course
For love . L Sexton
Class G’nd Vintage Ball
Hairy Bikers ..I’m no Billy he’s Tim
Rhythm and Rhym Computer club
Creative Writing
N.W. W’life Photo
The Playhouse
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Waterside Theatre
Central Library
Central Library
Central Library
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Thursday 11th April 2013
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Waterside Theatre
Beech Hill Hotel
Friday 12th April 2013
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Children stories
For love . L Sexton
Annie Guerilla Days in Derry
..I’m no Billy he’s Tim
Rhythm and Rhym The Playhouse
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Millennium Forum
Waterside Theatre
Central Library
Saturday 13 April 2013
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Sport
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Fairy Queen - Sestina
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Millennium Forum
Waterside Theatre
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Sunday 14th April 2013
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Sandinos Club
The Nerve Centre
Monday 15 April 2013
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Waterside library
Tuesday 16 April 2013
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Music
Creative Village Arts
Londonderry Batt BB Ulster Orch Come Play
Print w’shop Pump St
Ebrington Square
Millennium Forum
Outdoor nature study & house tour c’ntry estate forage day
Monday 22nd April 2013
Event Type
Event Name
Venue
Exhibition Art
Comedy
Book Club Creative Village Arts
Dirty Flirty Thirty
Teenage Book Club
Print W’shop, Pump Street
The Playhouse
Waterside library
Tuesday 23rd April 2013
Event Type
Event Name
Venue
Exhibition Art
Dance Jive B’room
Comedy
Creative Village Arts
Class G’nd Vintage Ball
Billy Connolly Print w’shop Pump St
note (7)
Millennium Forum
Wednesday 24th April 2013
Event Type
Event Name
Venue
Exhibition Art
Theatre
Dance Jive B’room
Comedy
Children stories
Computer class
Writing Class
Creative Village Arts
Factory Girls
Class G’nd Vintage Ball
Billy Connolly Rhythm and Rhym Computer club
Creative Writing
Print w’shop Pump St
City Factory
note (8)
Millennium Forum
Central Library
Central Library
Central Library
Thursday 25th April 2013
Event Type
Event Name
Venue
Exhibition Art
Theatre
Theatre / Music
Play/Book swap
Creative Village Arts
Factory Girls
Thornhill College 80th
Desert Island Books
Print w’shop Pump St
City Factory
Millennium Forum
Central Library
Friday 26th April 2013
Event Type
Event Name
Venue
Exhibition Art
Theatre
Theatre
Theatre
Children stories
Creative Village Arts
Factory Girls
Cooley Women
Allegiance
Rhythm and Rhym Print w’shop Pump St
City Factory
The Playhouse
Waterside Theatre
Central Library
Saturday 27th April 2013
th
Event Type
Event Name
Venue
Exhibition Art
Dance Jive B’room
Creative Village Arts
Class G’nd Vintage Ball
Print w’shop Pump St
note (7)
Wednesday 17th April 2013
Event Type
Event Name
Venue
Exhibition Art
Exhibition
Party
Dance Jive B’room
Children stories
Computer class
Writing Class
History talk
Outdoor nature study
Creative Village Arts
Stories Sea Supernatural 1 City,.. Better Place
Class G’nd Vintage Ball
Rhythm and Rhym Computer club
Creative Writing
Emigration – Derry Tree Identification Course
Print w’shop Pump St
TBA
The Venue 2013
note (8)
Central Library
Central Library
Central Library
Waterside library
Muff Glen Eglinton
Thursday 18 April 2013
Event Type
Event Name
Venue
Exhibition Art
Theatre
Outdoor Event Outdoor Event
Sport rugby
Music
Music
Music
Music / Food
Music
Creative Village Arts
Factory Girls
Brides Across Bridge Lark in the Park
Derry v Ulst Past Plrs New Irish Choir & Orch New Irish Choir & Orch
Sean Donnelly
Red Hurley note (21)
Disco
Print w’shop Pump St
City Factory
Peace Bridge
St Columb’s Park
Judges Road
Millennium Forum
Millennium Forum
The Playhouse
Belfray Country Inn
Gweedore Bar Upstairs
Sunday 28th April 2013
Event Type
Event Name
Venue
Exhibition Art
Creative Village Arts
Print w’shop Pump St
Monday 29th April 2013
th
Event Type
Event Name
Venue
Exhibition Art
Theatre
Conference
Creative Village Arts
Tom Crean Explorer
Dalai Lama of Tibet
Print w’shop Pump St
The Playhouse
Millennium Forum
Friday 19 April 2013
Event Type
Event Name
Venue
Exhibition Art
History Exhibition
Book Club Creative Village Arts
Amelia Earhart Teenage Book Club
Print w’shop Pump St
Shantallow library
Waterside library
Tuesday 30th April 2013
th
Event Type
Event Name
Venue
Exhibition Art
Sport Football Comedy
Theatre
Children stories
Creative Village Arts
E Lge D City v Sh’rock Rvrs
Open Mic Com Night
Tillies
Rhythm and Rhym Print w’shop Pump St
Brandywell Stadium
Millennium Forum
The Playhouse
Central Library
Saturday 20th April 2013
Event Type
Event Name
Venue
Exhibition Art
Music
Theatre
Music
Comedy
Music
Creative Village Arts
Record Store Day
Tillies
Sarah McQuaid
Owen O’Neill note (17)
Disco
Print w’shop Pump St
Cool Discs, Foyle Street
The Playhouse
The Playhouse
Waterside Theatre
Gweedore Bar Upstairs
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Event Type
Event Name
Venue
Exhibition Art
Dance Jive B’room
History Exhibition
Book Club Creative Village Arts
Class Grand Vintage Ball
Amelia Earhart
Teenage Book Club
Print w’shop Pump St
note (7)
Shantallow library
Waterside library
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Tea dance venues : March 15th Pilots Row/Apr 10 New Buildings Community Centre
Waterside Theatre (Saturdays) & Millennium Forum (Sundays)
University of the Third Age, (U3A), Pascal McDonald House, Gransha Park, BT47 6TG
University 3rd age (U3A), St. Mary’s Community Centre, Fanad Drive (upstairs hall)
I’M no Billy He’s a Tim £15.00/ £12.50 Conc. Opening night offer - all tickets £15, buy 1 get 1 free!
Owen O’Neill - Struck by Lightning
May McFettridge Spectacular Dinner & Cabaret
Red Hurley Spectacular Dinner & Cabaret
The Outcasts (legendary Punk Band + special guests Hooligan & Suspect Device
The Long Good Friday (Live Bands & Chilli!)
Dick Gaughan (Legendary Scottish singer/songwriter and Musician)
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SUPERFOODS
How to get smarter as you get older – the superfood connection
Your brain can improve with age! Scientists are revising the widely held belief that mental decline is inevitable as people grow
older. Michael Merzenich, PhD, professor of neuroscience at the University of California at San Francisco says that although
our brain cells continually die they are also renewed. With proper care the number of connections in your brain can actually increase with age. Although younger people can often memorise things quicker, older people have accumulated more memories.
This means that they can make connections between things that younger people cannot because they have not seen enough of
the world or experienced a lot. Older people can often see a bigger picture and can therefore be more – not less- creative than
young people. We call it wisdom - a form of intelligence that should grow through life.
Your diet is one of the factors that encourage brain growth throughout your life. Here are the top ten foods that can keep your brain
improving and prevent mental decline.
Avocados
Avocados are filled with monounsaturated fats
that create a healthy blood circulation and reduce
hypertension. This creates a beneficial blood flow
to the brain preventing mental decline. Avocados
can be high in calories though so don’t overdo it. A
perfect brain boosting meal would be wholemeal
brown bread with smoked salmon slices covered
with avocado shavings and a sprinkle of olive oil
dressing. Avocados reduce hypertension
Blueberries
Blue berries stop oxidative stress in the brain and
reduce the effects of dementia and altzheimers.
They are thought to stimulate healthy connections between brain cells. You should take a cupful of them every day according to Ann Kulze, MD,
author of Dr Ann’s 10 step diet. Put them on cereal,
in a desert or just eat them as a snack on their
own.
Salmon & Hazelnuts
The ancient legend of Finn McCool tells how he
became wise when he sucked the finger he burnt
whilst cooking the salmon of knowledge for his
master. The salmon was said to possess all the
knowledge of the world because it had eaten
nine hazel nuts that fell into a well. So for thousands of years it has been known that hazelnuts
and salmon boost brain power! Hazelnuts contain flavonoids which some laboratory studies
suggest can improve memory and counteract
the changes in Altzheimer’s brain cells when extracted from green tea, grapes or citrus fruits. Hazelnuts are also one of the nuts that contain the
highest amounts of brain protecting vitamin E.
Salmon is full if Omega three fatty acids which are
needed for brain function. Omega three also has
anti -inflammatory qualities which helps in the
prevention of many conditions including cancer
and arthritis. A four ounce serving of salmon two
or three times a week is recommended. Sardines,
herring and mackerel have the same effect.
Blueberries may
stimulate connections
between brain cells
Curry
The active ingredient in Curry is curcumin which
clears amyloid plaque proteins that are thought
to play a part in causing Altzheimer’s disease. Research is not conclusive yet but Dr Susanne Sorensen of the Altzheimer’s society has noted that
Indian communities that regularly eat curcumin
have surprisingly low incidences of Altzheimer’s.
Professor Murali Doraiswamy, of Duke University
in North Carolina, says the evidence suggests that
there is a lower risk of dementia among people
who eat curry two to three times a week. Make
the curry from scratch using raw curry powder
though, as processed curries from jars often have
lots of other ingredients and can have an excessive fat or sugar content – check the labels.. Read
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Stephen Pratt MD of Scripps Memorial Hospital in La Jolla, California says that
higher levels of vitamin E seem to prevent mental decline as we get older. Research at the Chicago Health and Aging Project, revealed that people with the
highest intakes of vitamin E from food have a 67% lower risk of Alzheimer’s. Vitamin E is found in Kale, nuts and seeds. It is particularly concentrated in sunflower
seeds and almonds. However to function within your body vitamin E needs the
help of four other nutrients which should be eaten with it. Vitamin C is needed to
keep vitamin E in its active form, so eat citrus fruits. Vitamin C needs glutathione
to become active. Glutathione comes from asparagus, potatoes, peppers, carrots,
onions, broccoli, avocados, squash, spinach, garlic, tomatoes, grapefruit, apples,
oranges, peaches bananas and melon.
Glutathione is activated by Selenium and Vitamin B3. Selenium is obtained from
Brazil nuts, oats and eggs. Niacin (vitamin B3) comes from chicken, bacon, bran
or peanuts. Combine vitamin E with these foods to get the maximum benefit.
A word of warning though – avoid processed foods as between 50% to 90% of
vitamin E can be taken out of wheat when it is processed. Eat as many of these
foods as raw as possible as cooking can destroy vitamin E. Avoid salted or roasted
nuts if you can and eat fruits fresh if you can as vitamins tend to deplete in older
fruit and vegatables. As a further boon, adequate vitamin E intake can help avoid
prostate cancer.
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Black & Green Tea
Green and black tea can give a great anti-oxidant
boost when freshly brewed. This helps your brain
by lowering cholesterol. Drinking freshly brewed
tea has been shown to boost memory, concentration and mood. The University of Michigan
Health System says that four to five cups of tea
a day can prevent against brain cell death. Tea
(without sugar) is better for you than fruit juices
or soft drinks because the sudden sugar rush from
sugary drinks is not healthy for your brain cells.
Don’t try to cheat by leaving out sugar and then
eating a biscuit with your morning tea! Caffeinated tea may also reduce the risk of brain tumours
according to a study published in “Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention.” by Crystal N.
Holic, Scott G. Smith and associates.
Tea boosts
concentration
Wholemeal Grains/Oats
Whole grains make your heart and veins healthy so eating whole grains ensures that your brain gets plenty of nutrients through a healthy blood flow.
Oats, whole meal bread and brown rice are excellent sources. The main
fuel for your brain is glucose and oats are particularly good for delivering
this to the brain because the carbohydrates in oats break down slowly over
several hours providing a steady flow of energy keeping your brain alert. Eat
porridge every morning or put raw oats over your cereal. Beans and lentils
have the same slow release effect.
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Curry may reduce
harmful plaque in
your brain
Eating Salmon gave
Finn McCool all the
knowledge in the
world
Sunflower Seeds and Almonds
Vitamin E protects
your brain from the
effects of aging
Brown bread, smoked salmon and
avocado shavings is an excellent brain
boosting meal
Walnuts
The best nut for improving your brain health is the
walnut because it contains high concentrations of
omega 3 in the form of DHA. A study by the British Journal of Nutrition found that students increased their ability to reason and infer things by
11.2% when they ate half a cup of walnuts per day
for eight weeks. The walnut is easy to remember
because it looks like a little brain! Cut up walnuits
and put them into salads, cakes or breakfast cereal.
Brocoli
The Journal of Neuroscience reports that the
chemical sulphoraphane found in Broccoli may
help to protect the blood brain membrane and so
shield your brain from harmful chemicals in the
blood. Cauliflower, cabbage and Brussels sprouts
may also have the same effect. Although the effect was noted in laboratory animals, the benefits
for humans are being studied. Do not over-cook
broccoli though because researchers from Warwick university found that much of the nutritional
benefit is lost if you boil broccoli for thirty minutes.
It is better to hold the broccoli to the last minute
and then steam it for about ten minutes so that it
is bright green and still a little crunchy to bite. As
a bonus, it has been suggested elsewhere that one
or two helpings of broccoli per week may reduce
the prospect of prostate cancer by up to 45%.
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Eating right is not the only thing you
need to do to improve your brainpower. Author Vernon Coleman
outlines 30 things you should do to
increase your brain function as you
get older.
Broccoli may protect
the brain from harmful
chemicals
Caution: always refer to your doctor for dietary advice. Anyone below the age of 18 should take advice of a parent or guardian
before exploring any matter mentioned in this publication. Information given by Zapit Publishing is for the purpose of stimulating
public interest and discussion only and should not be taken as advice. Only your doctor is qualified to advise you on your personal
diet and health. Particular caution should be taken by anyone who suffers from nut or other allergies, is pregnant, on medication or
suffering from any medical condition. Zapit publishing does not take responsibility for information provided on any website or for
claims made by anyone reported in this publication.
Portrait of a City
Read it at:
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Call for old photographs
of Derry held by families all
over the world
Zapit! Magazine is fully behind the BT Portrait of a City project which aims to create one of the
largest digital archives of photographs and film ever created for the people of Derry/Londonderry. We want everyone to make a point of contacting families of people from the North West
who may have gone away from the town – even a few generations ago. In attics, basements and
albums all over the world are pictures and stories about the people and times past in Derry. We
want everyone to ask for photos that can be added to the Portrait of a City archive so that they
can be shared with everyone for posterity.
Just to show you what gems remain undiscovered out there we asked Charles Brewster to share
his family album with you all. Charles is one of the Brewster Bakery family of Limavady. He left
Derry in the late 50s and now lives in Wales. His mother who is still alive, was the last baby to be
born in Boomhall to Caroline (Carline) Cooke and Alex Wyncoll. Their daughters Angela (Charles’s
mother) and Rosemary, are featured in these photographs which were taken on a holiday to the
North West in June and July 1930. You can see them holding hands at a party at McCorkell’s (the
shipping people). Angela is the tall girl on the right. She was such a beautiful young lady that she
became a Vogue model at the end of the 50’s when living in Culmore. She was featured in Vogue
as photographed by the famous photographer Norman Parkinson who also photographed the
Beatles, Elizabeth Taylor, Vivien Leigh, Audrey Hepburn and Margaret Thatcher. Angela’s sister
Rosemary is now in America and still teaches as a professor of Neuroanatomy at a teaching hospital in Washington DC at age of about 85.
People who live in Park will be particularly interested in the photograph of the car outside Learmount House (Now derelict). The Wyncolls visited there because Carline’s mother was a Beresford. Portrait of a city are helping community groups in Park to gather photos and Charles would
like to add this one to their collection. People in the Culmore Road will be interested in the Photographs of the girls outside Troy Hall playing with their dog.
Thank you to Charles. He has asked us to return the favour by putting out an appeal to anyone
who may have a photograph of the Brewster Bakery shop front in Derry. If you do, please contact
the Zapit! Magazine office (address on page 2).
So if you know of a family who left Londonderry please contact them and ask them to share
their photos with the BT Portrait of a City project which is located in the Digital Arts Studio in
the Ráth Mór Complex in Creggan.
Contact Kirsty Osborn at [email protected].
Telephone 02871 279919.
Kirsty and the Portrait of a City team are also working with community groups across the city
to collect and freely digitise old photographs and film for the digital archive. They can also offer
free training including digital photography and Photoshop classes for interested groups. You
can find out more about the Portrait of a City project at www.btportraitofacity.com
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Does Money make you
happy? Yes & No
Why are the
Irish amongst the
happiest people in
the world?
It’s official! Ireland is the tenth happiest place in the world
to live. Northern Ireland is the happiest part of the United Kingdom.
People are happiest between the ages of 16 to 19 and from the age of 65
to 79. World happiness surveys have led to surprising conclusions as to
what makes people happy. We uncover 9 action points to increase your
personal happiness.
Columbia University’s Earth Institute set out to find out who were the happiest people in the world and why. Denmark is the happiest place to live, followed by Finland,
Norway and the Netherlands. Ireland ranks as the 10th happiest place in the world
ahead of the United States (number 11). The Office of National Statistics ranked
people in Northern Ireland as the happiest in the UK in 2011. Even more fascinating
are the answers people gave to the Earth Institute about what made them happy.
Does marriage make you
happy?
According to a Michigan State University
study, getting married does not make you
happier. However, although a married person maintains their happiness into old age,
the happiness of single people declines
with age. So marriage maintains happiness rather than creates it; married people
are happier in the long run. What about
co-habiting couples? People living together are ultimately just as happy as married
couples according to a study by Cornell
University’s College of Human Ecology in
the Journal of Marriage and Family. Even
though married and co-habiting couples
lost contact with other friends and family and single people maintained the link,
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Obviously, not having enough money to live on makes
people unhappy. The fact that the unhappiest countries
Togo, Sierra Leone and Benin are located in a region where
over half the population are below the poverty line speaks
for itself. However, the report found that once basic needs
are met, making more money does not necessarily make
you happier. How much money covers basic needs? As
your income increases up to an income of £50,000 you get
happier according to a Princeton study, but beyond that
figure there is little increase in life satisfaction from money
alone. Even though personal wealth has tripled in the USA
since the Second World War, happiness has declined. The
Earth Institute says this is because people do not look at
how much money they have when they have the basics
covered – instead they think about how much they have
compared to their neighbours. Societies where there is
unequal pay are particularly unhappy. The happiest countries Sweden, Denmark and Norway have the least income
inequality in the world. Northern Ireland has the greatest
income equality of anywhere in the United Kingdom. We
have relatively less really poor people and relatively less
really rich people. Does this explain why Ulster people are
the happiest in the UK? The Republic of Ireland has one of
the lowest levels of income inequality in the world.
The great surprise is that money makes peo
ple happiest when they give it to others! Elizabeth Dunne of
the University of Chicago found that spending money on
yourself does not have a lasting effect upon happiness in the
way that spending it on others does. As our wealth increases
we get used to higher levels of spending to the point where
it has no impact upon how we feel. However, knowing that
we helped others boosts our self-esteem in a lasting way.
It is also better to have secure income than to have lots of
money. The happiest people in the world are the Danes
and yet they are the most taxed! In return they get guarantees of free health care, support when disabled, free
education and an almost full income if they become unemployed. It seems happiness has a lot to do with feeling secure that the risks in life are already taken care of.
What makes the Danes
the happiest people in
the world?
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the social life of the single person was not
enough to sustain their happiness. This
suggests that the type of social interaction
needed for lifelong happiness is the deeper
intimate type. Another bonus is that people
in committed personal relationships tend
to live seven years longer than single people and they are also generally healthier.
Human contact –
a key to happiness
Take control of your life
don’t be passive
Humans need a sense of meaning to
survive according to Tal Ben-Shahar,
the happiness professor at Harvard. Yes
– there is such a thing as a happiness
professor! This means having goals that
are significant to us personally and enjoyable. The Danes are individually very
confident that they can change their
own lives if they want to. This is one
of the primary reasons they show high
happiness ratings according to Christian
Bjørnskov from Aarhus Business School.
The National Geographic “true Happiness test” revealed that the happiest people were those who restricted their TV viewing to less than one hour per day. We get
more satisfaction from engaging with friends and family. In 2008 Gallup poll found
that the happiest Americans spent 8 or 9 hours per day interacting with friends
and family whilst the unhappiest Americans had one hour or less of social time.
Top 10
Happiest
Countries
on the
World
Does Money make
you happy? Yes & No
Deliberately control
your attitude
1 - Denmark
2 - Finland
3 - Norway
4 - Netherlands
5 - Canada
6 - Switzerland
7 - Sweden
8 - New Zealand
9 - Australia
10 - Ireland
9 things to do today to increase
your happiness see online
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You can learn to be happy. Action for happiness is an organisation that aims
to teach people to be happy. Take their free online video advice on how
to make yourself, your school, your workplace and your family happier.
You get what you think about. If you choose to think about
bad things you feel bad. If you select good things to ponder
you feel good. It’s that simple! Psychologist Sonja Lyubomirsky says we should deliberately pause every day to look out
for the good things that are happening to us and savour them.
People who make a point of doing this reduce feelings of depression significantly. Our mind can play cruel tricks on us by
selecting only negative things to remember even though if we
thought about it, many good things also happened to us in our
past. Negative thoughts suggest further negative thoughts and
they re-inforce each other like a nuclear reaction. The opposite
is also true. When you remind yourself of all the happy things
that happened to you in the past you can train your memory
to attract other positive thoughts and enhance your feeling of
well-being. One of the main changes you can make to your
thought process according to Lyubomirsky is to stop comparing yourself unfavourably to others as this breeds unhappiness.
If you need to be convinced that this works try this exercise.
Ask ten people to write down their biggest problem or worry
on a piece of paper and ask each one to put their worry into
a hat. Each person then randomly picks out a problem from
the hat. You will soon be asking for your own problem back as
you will quickly see that the “other man’s grass is not always
greener”. The important thing is that you make a conscious
choice to control what goes into your mind rather than let your
thoughts and feelings be dictated by the media, negative people
around you or your own bad habit of looking for the negative.
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Ruth Bigger explains why early eye tests can have a positive effect upon the
career and education of children later on in life.
Children in
the North
West missing
out on vital
free eye tests
and glasses
In the first years of life poor eyesight can damage a child’s educational development. Not being able to read,
play some sports or take instruction from a blackboard can also adversely affect their social development as
they fall behind other children making them feel different, inferior and excluded from social activities. Sometimes children are mistakenly put in special needs classes because teachers, in the absence of a diagnosis of
eye problems, have wrongly concluded that the child has an intellectual difficulty. About 5% of 7-8 year olds
and 10% of 12-13 year olds that should have glasses don’t have them. In the City Council area alone this means
that roughly 250 children every year suffer visual disadvantage unnecessarily through missed diagnosis. This
accumulates over time so that around almost 3,500 under 16 year olds in the area have suffered disadvantage
that may affect their careers and educational advancement.
The tragedy is that the tests and the basic glasses are free. So why do nearly 80% of people under 16 never avail
of the free tests? It seems that people just don’t know how important it is to correct sight at an early age and
also that it does not have to be a financial burden.
Why early eye tests for children are so vital
The eye is developing critical brain connections during the first seven years of life and failure to correct errors
during that period can lead to irreversible damage to the sight of the child. Common problems are squinting, lazy eye (blurred image from one eye), short sightedness, long sightedness and defective binocular vision
which can lead to problems in judging distance and depth. Children don’t know they have these problems
because it feels normal to them, so parents should never wait for their child to report problems before they get
their eyes tested. Nor should a parent wait until a child enters school as an uncorrected squint or astigmatism
(blurred vision due to irregular shaped cornea) can lead to permanent sight loss. Your child does not have to be
able to read or write to get an eye test as we use other methods of assessing them when they are infants. The
earlier the correction is made during the critical first seven years, the greater is the permanent improvement in
brain connections and lifelong visual clarity.
Tell-tale signs
Ruth Bigger Optician
“Tests and basic glasses for
Children up to 16 are free”
Early assessment is particularly urgent where a child has special needs, where there is a history of other family
members wearing glasses in childhood, squinting, or being treated for lazy eye by wearing a patch. You should
also suspect and investigate sight problems if your child screws up their face when reading a book or watching
the TV. Another tell-tale sign is when they put books close to their face or sit too close to the TV. Watch to see
if a child squints, rubs their eyes excessively when not tired or whether their eyes water. Don’t ignore any complaint from the child that they have blurred vision or an unexplained headache. Look at flash photographs of
your child to see if “red eye” appears in one eye but not the other or whether there is a white, yellow or orange
colour in their pupils as this may indicate a rare condition that should be tested immediately.
Advice on children’s eye tests from the College of Optomotrists
The solution
Your child’s test may often be clear and you will not need glasses or treatment. Once a problem has been diagnosed however, correction is very simple. Glasses or a patch may be all that is required. Coloured overlays or
tinted glasses may improve reading speeds. It is worth contributing more to get glasses that are personalised
to your child’s face. Glasses need to fit at the nose without shifting. Lenses only work as prescribed when they
are positioned where they were prescribed to be in front of the eye. Poorly fitted glasses could be worse than
no glasses at all! Lindburg frames are particularly child proof because their patented Danish design eliminates
all screws, rivets and welds and the titanium from which they are made is robust yet light to wear. As a bonus
you can tell your child that Simon Cowell, Billy Connolly and Elton John all wear them so if they look after their
eyes like they do – maybe one day they will be rich and famous too!
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