Signet rings

Bespoke signet rings.

Ruff's

Mental Reserves Keep Brains Agile

- Novelty is crucial to providing stimulation for the
aging brain. The brain requires continued stresses to maintain or enhance its
strength.
- Those who pursued the most
leisure activities of an intellectual or social nature had a lower risk of developing dementia. The more activities, the lower the
risk.
- Continued
social interactions helped protect against dementia. The more extensive
an older person’s social network, the better the brain is likely to
work. Especially helpful are productive or
mentally stimulating activities pursued with other people, like
community gardening, taking classes, volunteering or participating in a
play-reading group.
- Physical exercise improves ‘executive function,’ which is the set of
abilities that allows you to select behavior that’s appropriate to the
situation, inhibit inappropriate behavior and focus on the job at hand
in spite of distractions. Executive function includes basic functions
like processing speed, response speed and working memory, the type used
to remember a house number while walking from the car to a party. Just walking fast for 30 to 60 minutes several times a week can
help.

From The New York Times

Living it up

Mail order contemporary furniture

Customer Services: 0116 269 5960 Mon-Fri 9am-5pm

Living it up

Mandeville of London

Specialist handmade human hair wigs and hairpieces.

The Studio
5 The Coda Centre
189 Munster Road
Fulham
London SW6 6AW
England

Tel:+44(0)20 8741 5959 6Fax:+44(0)20 8741 7283

Mandeville of London

Relax naturally

"Kava kava is a tropical plant that has been dubbed "Nature's Valium." South Pacific Islanders have used it for hundreds of years as a calming nectar and in religious ceremonies. In addition to soothing anxiety, kava kava is also used as an antispasmodic and pain reliever. Women suffering from menstrual cramps sometimes find relief by taking kava kava."

- Psychology Today

Staying a Step Ahead of Aging

While you will slow down as you age, you
may be able to stave off more of the deterioration than you thought. Researchers say that you should be
able to maintain your muscles as you age, including the muscle enzymes
needed for good athletic performance, and you should be able to
maintain your ability to exercise for long periods near your so-called
lactic threshold, meaning you are near maximum effort.

But you have to know how to train, doing the right sort of exercise, and you must keep it up. Train hard and train often. Do things like regular interval training,
repeatedly going all out, easing up, then going all out again. These
workouts train your body to increase its oxygen consumption by allowing
you to maintain an intense effort.

When you have to choose between hard and often, choose hard.

The reason people become slower, though, is that oxygen consumption declines with age.

In large part that is because, as has long been known, the maximum heart rate
steadily falls by about seven to eight beats per minute per decade. It
happens with or without training, in sedentary and in active people. As a result, the heart
cannot pump as much blood at maximum effort.

From The New York Times

Bread salad

1 pound stale country bread or baguette, cut in thick slices

1 small red onion, sliced very thin

Cold water

1 pound ripe tomatoes, chopped

2 tablespoons chopped fresh basil

2 tablespoons chopped flat-leaf parsley

2 tablespoons red wine vinegar or sherry vinegar (more to taste)

1 large garlic clove, minced or crushed in a mortar and pestle

Salt and freshly ground pepper

1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil

1. If your bread is very hard, douse the loaf with water and cut it into a few pieces that will fit into a medium bowl. Cover with the onions. Add enough cold water to cover the pieces and let sit for 20 minutes. Lift the onions off the bread, and rinse in a strainer. Drain the bread, squeeze out excess water and crumble the bread into a salad bowl.

2. Add the tomatoes, basil and parsley to the bowl. Mix together the vinegar, garlic, salt, pepper and olive oil, then toss with the bread mixture. Cover and refrigerate for one hour or longer before serving.

Yield: Serves six

Advance preparation: This can be assembled several hours before you wish to serve it. Add the herbs close to serving time, so they won’t fade.

From : The New York Times