IT was an unlikely TV hit – a travel show that followed veteran actors Timothy West and Prunella Scales on narrowboat holidays around the UK and Europe. But as those who watched will know, the real draw was the couple’s touching relationship – full of affection, occasional impatience and a gentle teasing humour.
Their stint on Great Canal Journeys lasted ten series, turning Tim and Pru, as they are best known, into bona fide national treasures. And what made it
A couple of years ago I started losing weight very rapidly, for no apparent reason. The pounds were falling off me, even as I waited for an appointment to see my GP.
My clothes no longer fitted: the waist of my trousers suddenly sat on my hips. I thought, ‘This is it, not only has some disease invaded my brain, but now my body, too.’
I was convinced I had cancer. ‘You know I don’t want treatment?’ I told my
Doctors today called for President Joe Biden to receive cognitive tests that prove he’s fit to serve after an astonishing week of gaffes, as well as a report from the justice department that raised serious questions about his health.
The DOJ report described Biden, 81, as a ‘elderly man with a poor memory’, finding that he did not remember the years he was vice president and could not recall, ‘even within several years’, when his son Beau died.
Doctors reacting
As a nutritionist I’ve always prided myself on eating a balanced diet. But when health warnings about ultra-processed foods (UPFs) started to reach the mainstream, I was shocked to learn even I was unwittingly consuming more UPFs than I thought – many under the guise of being ‘healthy’.
I started to scrutinise the labels in my shopping basket and I was horrified. The chocolate protein shake I sipped as I left the gym, the ‘natural’ cereal bars I relied on
If a quiet library with towering walls of books and hushed patrons and my own leather armchair is my vision of eternal bliss, this refrigerator is, if not Hell, then a purgatory with tiled floors, brightly lit hallways, bland meals under plastic covers, incapacitated patients, the constant bustle of nurses, therapists, visitors, the buzz of televisions.
I have never seen anyone
reading a book in
this purgatory.
Most of the staff, clad in nursing scrubs or polo shirts and chinos,
If a quiet library with towering walls of books and hushed patrons and my own leather armchair is my vision of eternal bliss, this refrigerator is, if not Hell, then a purgatory with tiled floors, brightly lit hallways, bland meals under plastic covers, incapacitated patients, the constant bustle of nurses, therapists, visitors, the buzz of televisions.
I have never seen anyone
reading a book in
this purgatory.
Most of the staff, clad in nursing scrubs or polo shirts and chinos,
Der Grund, warum Bewegung die Alzheimer-Krankheit verhindern kann, wurde entdeckt und könnte zu neuen Behandlungsmethoden für die unheilbare Erkrankung
Eine Familie ist am Boden zerstört, nachdem bei Brüdern im Alter von nur sechs und zwei Jahren eine seltene Krankheit diagnostiziert wurde, die zu Demenz im Kindesalter führt.
Bei Michael und seinem jüngeren Bruder Oliver aus Spokane, Washington, wurde die Batten-Krankheit diagnostiziert – eine Gruppe seltener genetischer Erkrankungen, die dazu führen, dass das Gehirn im Laufe von fünf bis zehn Jahren allmählich abschaltet.
Bei Michael wurde die Krankheit diagnostiziert, nachdem er immer schwerere Anfälle erlitten hatte, und aus großer Vorsicht
What do Napoleon Bonaparte and Elvis Presley have in common?
The surprising connection is they both suffered from chronic constipation. In the case of Bonaparte, it led to haemorrhoids (piles) so bad he couldn’t ride his horse to survey the battlefield at Waterloo. Some historians claim this contributed to the French losing this crucial battle, changing the course of European history.
Constipation is, of course, no laughing matter: according to the NHS, at any given time, around 14 per cent
A man who left care home staff “frightened for their lives” when he armed himself with a butter knife and chased them away – and then tried to rape an elderly dementia patient – has been branded “a dangerous individual” by police.
Jake Astley, 22, of Sharples Hall Street in Oldham, claimed to have no collection of the incident, which happened after a day-and-night drink and drugs binge. However, before trial, he pled guilty to the charge of attempted rape
