coconut oil and alzheimers / dementia

First the video that has been going around via email.

http://www.cbn.com/media/player/index.aspx?s=/mp4/LJO190v1_WS

Then a followup from Snopes

Then some people reportedly getting results.

I wonder if haupia ice cream and coconut pie can be beneficial?  [Coconut bao too!]  Even if it doesn't, at least we'll enjoy the food. 

[6/15/12] After looking on ebay for coconut oil, I see that it's also available at amazon.  Surprisingly there are only 34 reviews of Mary Newport's book, but 29 are five star and 3 are four star.

[8/7/12] Yep, it sure sounds like, from the way she's been acting, that mom has dementia.  Whether she has Alzheimer's or not, is another story.

Dementia is the gradual deterioration of mental functioning, such as thinking, concentration, memory, and judgment, which affects a person’s ability to perform normal daily activities.

Dementia occurs primarily in people who are over the age of 65, or in those with an injury or disease that affects brain function. While dementia is most commonly seen in the elderly, it is not a normal consequence of the aging process.

Dementia is caused by the death of brain cells. Brain cells can be destroyed by brain diseases, such as Alzheimer’s disease, or strokes (called vascular or multi-infarct dementia), which decrease blood flow to the brain.

In most cases, the symptoms of dementia occur gradually, over a period of years. Symptoms of dementia caused by injury or stroke occur more abruptly.

Difficulties often begin with memory, progressing from simple forgetfulness to the inability to remember directions, recent events, and familiar faces and names.

[8/7/12] Here's a couple of threads from Dementia Weekly:

What's Bad About Using Coconut Oil for Dementia?

Testimonials for Coconut Oil as a Dimentia Therapy

[8/19/12] Finally bought some coconut oil, found it at GNC.  Nutiva brand.  Put it on oatmeal but it didn't have much taste. So the next day I added honey too.  Not bad.

I remember Dr. Oz mentioning coconut oil on his show.  As far as I know, he didn't mention the affect on dementia, but it has some other benefits.  Here's some links:

Coconut Oil Super Powers, Part 2

What is coconut oil?

The Benefits of Coconut Oil (by Charles Mattocks)

Dr. Oz and Dr. Mercola

Joe Mercola, quack doctor

Dr. Oz changed his mind

one more for Jackie Chan

Cannes, France >> Jackie Chan is landing his last punch as an action star, but says he is stepping into retirement having made one of the most important films of his career.

The Hong Kong actor told the AP on Friday that his latest film "Chinese Zodiac" will be his last action movie.

Chan, launching the movie at the Cannes Film Festival with co-stars Kwone Sang Woo, Yao Xingtong and Liao Fan, said that people don't believe him when he says he is going to retire.

"They say 'no, you're still young, you can still do it,' but I have to stop one day."

The 58-year-old says he is bowing out with "Chinese Zodiac" — in which he plays a fortune hunter, travelling the world trying to track down missing astrological antiques — because it is one of the "most important" films in his career.

Chan says he spent seven years working on the movie — writing, producing, directing and coordinating fight scenes.

"For the last ten years I've been choosing the director to direct me. This one I direct myself." he said. "I hope this movie, 20 years later, people still remember it. For me, for the audience, for my future, for my history — it's very important."

Chan says "Chinese Zodiac," and the many films before it, have taken their toll on his body.

using your dishwasher

A Word About Prerinsing
Don’t do it. Yes, you read that correctly—prerinsing is wrong. “Dishes should be scraped to remove large chunks,” says Dries. “But if you’re rinsing, you’re really just wasting water and electricity.”

So why is everyone in the habit of prerinsing? Because older dishwashers removed food soil by diluting the food in water, and then hoping it went down the drain. Which it often didn’t.

The vast majority of today’s models have filtration systems designed to catch food and pump it down the drain so that very little dirty water carries over to the next cycle. Higher-end models not only have self-cleaning filters, but hard food disposers as well, which grind food and send it down the drain.

In addition, modern detergents are designed to attack food, which can actually cause problems if there isn’t any food on the dishware. “The detergent in the unit aggressively goes after something, and if you don’t have food soil in the unit, it attacks the glasses, which will get cloudy,” says Mike Edwards, a dishwasher designer and senior engineer for Bosch. So ignore your friends when they tell you that you have to prerinse.

How to Load the Right Way
Mike Edwards knows a thing or two about how to load a dishwasher—he’s been designing them for 22 years. His suggestion: “Read the manual. We put a lot of effort into it!” Each tub is a little different, but even so, there are two golden rules: Like items shall be loaded with like. (More items fit that way.) And all items should face the middle of the unit—that’s where the jet spray comes from.

• Avoid nesting Water, water vapor and heat need to touch every surface of the items being washed, so leave space between dishes and don’t overfill.

• Place Items facing Down Placing bowls, pans and cups upright means they’ll fill with dirty water and won’t be able to drain.

• The Lower Rack Put bigger dishes here, close to the jet spray. Plates, pots, pans, mixing bowls all go here; platters go against an outside edge so they don’t block other items. Durable mugs and thick glasses can also go on this rack.

• Silverware Load the silverware basket in the sink—knives handle-up, and forks and spoons handle-down—making sure not to overfill. Many baskets are designed to sit in a variety of bottom rack locations; after you load other items, place the basket where your remaining empty space is.

• The Top Rack Place glasses and cups along the edges, next to the tines (not on them; if you put them on the tines, the tines can break and you’ll fit fewer items). Load smaller plates and saucers in neat rows facing the middle. Long spatulas, cooking spoons and knives lie flat, in the long basket for this purpose, if your unit has one.

Read more: How to Use a Dishwasher - Use Your Dishwasher Efficiently at WomansDay.com - Woman's Day

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[6/27/12] To rinse or not to rinse?

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[2/13/13] using Quick Wash

Goober

NASHVILLE, Tenn. >> George Lindsey, who spent nearly 30 years as the grinning Goober on "The Andy Griffith Show" and "Hee Haw," has died. He was 83.

A press release from Marshall-Donnelly-Combs Funeral Home in Nashville said Lindsay died early Sunday morning after a brief illness. Funeral arrangements were still being made.

Lindsey was the beanie-wearing Goober on "The Andy Griffith Show" from 1964 to 1968 and its successor, "Mayberry RFD," from 1968 to 1971. He played the same jovial character — a service station attendant — on "Hee Haw" from 1971 until it went out of production in 1993.

"America has grown up with me," Lindsey said in an Associated Press interview in 1985. "Goober is every man; everyone finds something to like about ol' Goober."

He joined "The Andy Griffith Show" in 1964 when Jim Nabors, portraying Gomer Pyle, left the program. Goober Pyle, who had been mentioned on the show as Gomer's cousin, thus replaced him.