The Topic Today is Hydration, Drinking Water to Stay Healthy
Older folk don’t feel thirst as strongly as other adults, and total body water decreases with age. An adult over 60 years old has less water to lose before becoming dehydrated, and a typical older adult has age-related conditions that can exacerbate dehydration quickly, including obesity, swallowing disorders from a stroke, being bedridden, chronic diarrhea or vomiting, and others. Studies show dehydration can lead to an increase in falls and longer stays in rehabilitation.
Some hydration tips from several sources.
- Drink small amounts of fluids throughout the day instead of trying to drink large amounts all at once.
- As we’ve all learned, four to five 8-ounce glasses of water per day can keep you hydrated and help ward off heart disease,
- Coffee, alcohol, and high-protein drinks have a diuretic effect leading to loss of body water.
Recommending a Compelling and Meaningful Book
“Paradigms Lost” by William Sonn, a skilled and talented writer and a researcher without peer. The book traces the printed word in the context of history.
Here is the book’s description from Amazon.
“Four times in western history: in the 1400s, the early 1800s, the 1880s, and again in the mid-20th century, we learned to duplicate and disseminate the printed word more cheaply. And each time strange events followed.
For with each of these changes in the gritty production of glamorous content, expensive and secret bodies of knowledge abruptly became cheap and easy to spread. Once-rare and sometimes disorienting impressions rained down on once-sheltered folks. New and otherwise inexpert hands mixed them into whole new breeds of information, myth, logic, and viewpoints. There were fantastic scientific advances, mass migrations, bold social experiments, financial upheavals, and much bloodshed. In the harrowing decades that followed, powerful new kinds of governments, businesses, and groups came to elbow aside old ones. In all of these periods, there were great, creaking shifts in politics, wealth, religions, and even the way we learn, think, and see. And in the last decade, the costs of producing and distributing printed knowledge have fallen a fifth time, far and fast and almost to free.
“ParadigmsLost” traces the history of the accidents, inventions, forces, eccentrics, and geniuses who accelerated information in the past, examines what happened each time they succeeded, and provides some background for what, if the past is any guide, may be coming.
Novelty Song of The Week
In July 1956, “Stranded in the Jungle” by The Cadets reached #15 on the retail sales chart and #3 on the Rhythm and Blues Chart. The bass-man spoken verses are delivered by Will “Dub” Jones, who went oto sing bass on most of the Coasters hits. Prentice Moreland delivers the famous line, “Great Kooga Mooga! Lemme outta here!” Sometimes the line is heard as “Great Googa Mooga,”
Douglas “Jocko” Henderson was a pioneering radio disk jockey who created a line of rhyming patter for his program, including “Great Googa Mooga,” which appeared as “Great Googly Moogly” from blues masters Willie Dixon and Howlin’ Wolf. (And the phrase appears frequently in the tv show “Phineas and Ferb.”
Everything in Our Life Experience Can Be Found in a Seinfeld Episode
In the Seinfeld episode, “The Barber,” Jerry continues get his hair cut be the barber Enzo, even though Jerry doesn’t like the results. Why? Because he’s been going to Enzo for 12 years and he doesn’t want “to hurt his feelings.”
How many of us have continued using someone only to keep from hurt feelings?
Getting Old Ain’t for Sissies 