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Healthy Moments Episode # 7-2012 Hello Everyone! I’m sad to announce that I have caught a cold, so my Lean Out Extreme Series May be 8 weeks long instead of 6, because I am limited by my immune system on the intensity of my workouts:) I have many new video projects in the works. I hope they will all be ready sometime in the summer and fall of 2012. Stay Well! Main Channel: www.youtube.com Website: www.jimiatherton.com Twitter www.twitter.com Facebook: www.facebook.com Google+: plus.google.com Otherchannel: www.youtube.com Merch Store: www.zazzle.com CNN :Skin Cancer Drug Reverses Alzheimer’s In Mice: www.cnn.com ABC News: American Psychiatric Association Under Fire For New Disorders: abcnews.go.com CNN: California Sets Trends In Health Regulation: www.cnn.com ABC News: Zumba Fitness Rush For Kinect Will Teach You How To Zumba: abcnews.go.com Yahoo News: Teen Weight Loss Program Shows Some Benefit: old.news.yahoo.com JA Featured: How Much Excersize Is Enough?: jimiatherton.com Defnitions: Serendipity: en.wikipedia.org Cutaneous T-Cell Lymphoma: (Skin Cancer) en.wikipedia.org Bexarotene (Prescription): en.wikipedia.org Alzheimer’s: en.wikipedia.org Amyloids (Plaque): en.wikipedia.org American Psychiatric Association: en.wikipedia.org Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders en.wikipedia.org

A skin-cancer drug has shown some success in treating Alzheimer’s disease in mice, according to a study in Science. Alzheimer’s is thought to be caused by the build-up of protein fragments called amyloid-beta in the brain; the drug helped to clear the protein in the animals, and, more significantly, improved their cognitive, social and olfactory performance. Stefanie Ilgenfritz has details on The News Hub.

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OK, here’s the story.
I live with my mum, sister & 2 grandparents. My dad lives across the other side of australia. We are not particularly wealthy (we live in our grandparents’ house). My grandfather has alzheimer’s and Parkinsons, and my grandmother has her 8th bout of cancer and limited time to live. My sister and I share a room but i have my own little section. I’m 15 by the way. I go to a private school and i love it there because i don’t have to see my sister, but one problem is that its 1 hour away and i am a competitive swimmer, swimming 16 hours a week and in year 10 with shitloads of work to do and no time to do any of it.
My sister and I are extremely different in many ways. We clash horribly. Sharing a room doesn’t help one bit, but there are no other rooms in the house. I can’t study with music on, and she can’t study without music on. She has it on her stereo FULL BLAST and when i ask her to at least turn it down she goes INSANE at me! That is only one of the many, many problems that we have.
Another is my grandparents. I know they’re old and slow but i am a very impatient person and i can’t help that! It’s in my half-german genes. They drive me CRAZY. My grandpa gets very confused and trashed my half of the room the other day looking for the toaster. I can’t stand things being untidy. That is again only one of the many problems i have with them.
My mum doesn’t understand me one bit. Correction, she does but she chooses not to care or help me. When i seek support from her she tells me to pull myself together and deal with what i’ve got. Which is true i guess, but i’m a teenager. I need privacy, space, and this is what i’m not getting! I’m going INSANE.
One more thing. I know this is self-inflicted stress, but if i acheive this, this will be at least one thing in my life i’m happy with. I’m trying to lose weight to make up for being so ugly. NOt anorexic, just a bit skinnier. I know i’m not fat. But i feel fat! So i want to get rid of this bloated feeling. It sucks being the ugly one in my group of friends, so i have to make up for that by being the skinniest.
I think i am either a little bit depressed or just get really stressed easily. I hate my house, it’s so old and yucky. The carpet in my room makes me want to vomit. So does my reflection. One factor that does not help my mental state is that i get literally no time to myself, it takes 2 hours to get to/from school, then 2 hours of swimming, i’m supposed to be doing 3 hours of homeowrk and study every night too. And of course, i’m exhausted by the time i get home from school every day.
I cry almost every day. It’s terrible. I hate it. As in the question, i honestly thing i’m going CRAZY. Please help me!
And thanks for reading this. It probably sounds so childish, i know. But please put yourself in my shoes. I can’t cope with life the way it’s going for me.

Moira Brown speaks with Leonie Serediuk about how she is caring for her husband with Alzheimer’s. Leonie Serediuk Author, Caregiver, Speaker Book: “And Still Will I Trust Him-A Royal Journey Through Alzheimer’s” www.leonieserediuk.com

Ok I got offered 3 jobs, and have been working for about a week now.

1) – Be A personal caregiver for a man who may pass away with cancer in 3-6 months, however is only part-time and not sure if this is stable. The rewarding part is they are a great family and I will be helping a family in time of need.

2) Full-time as a cashier at Navlet’s for an uncertain amount of pay, but full time and stable and right down the street from my house.

3) Working full time as a caregiver for a caregiving agency an hour and full-time and benefits.

I’m really confused as what to do, I really want to continue working for this family but they seem unpredictable and I need stability in my life.

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My husband and I moved in with my widowed MIL 7 years ago because she was attacked in the middle of the night, and we felt that her living alone was not safe. Since then I have provided companionship and care for her on a daily basis and through 2 bouts with cancer and several surgeries! We gave up our Apartments and Privacy to move in and help run this home..we do not have any rental agreement. I have a VERY NASTY and jealous SIL! Every time there is a disagreement, she threatens to throw me and my husband and our 8 year old little girl out of the home. I am not paid for my caregiving, in fact I pay my Mother in law 0.00 towards the bills here. Nothing is in writing that we have to pay a thing. What are my rights? Can my SIL keep threatening to kick us out over night? I have a child here to worry about and we have been here 7 years, I cant imagine that even if it were MIL that they could boot us overnight. MIL is of sound mind but can be WICKED, thinks SIL walks on water
FYI…we dont consider it RENT we agreed when we moved here because of the situation that we would share the excpenses….MIL has owned this house wince FIL passed 30 years ago…she is extreemly well off….DH straight up gets the house if anything happens to MIL as the will states the cash would then go to SIL…if I was asked to pay RENT I would then think it only fair that I be compensated for my time and effort and paid for the expenses that I put out for MIL, with gas rices so high (she has done 36 rounds of radiation back and forth to the hospital on the other side of town) things like that…Im not going to pay RENT, when I never asked for this situation, we uprooted to move here because SIL wasnt keeping her eye on MIL like we thought she was and the attack happened….could leave here and SIL would have to deal with her which would be fine with us…but wouldnt they have to go to court and give us 30 days at least?
Oh another FYI….The answers here are really getting alittle askew…we pay for everything to care for ourselves…MIL food bill is about .00 a week where ours is 0.00 I would never expect her to buy our food..our 0 covers all of the electric bill as well as cable and trash pick up….MIL basically pays the taxes and maintenance…but she would have to pay ALL of this on her own if we werent here pitching in…and DH does all the lawn care and repairs which would run her a pretty penny in the area we live….so it is not a situation where we are sponging off of this person…we pay our way ever bit, but I am not paid for anything I do so the rest sorta plays out evenly…
Truthfully I am not going to fight SIL…if she wants it TRUST ME she can have it! Living here with MIL is NOT a picnic! And Im not going to fight her to live here…we did this not because we wanted to but beacause we had to and it has been a sacrific for us…. SIL could NOT do it because she cant even spend 2 hours on a saturday with MIL let alone LIVE with her! We are well off enough that we would have no issue with getting a small home someplace or apartment, but would need time to get things in order…my concern was if we could be booted overnight or would they at least have to get a court order to evict us and give us 30 days…MIL is still of decent mind and SIL can control her some, but MIL knows it is good for her that we are here right now…as her mind dwindles things might change and we are prepairing for that… MIL incurres no expense with us living here what so ever…however I cant say the same….

THANKS for the great answers!!!

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Im finishing up Sophomore year. My accumulative gpa for freshmen and sophomore year is a 3.55. My freshmen year GPA was a 3.7, 2 honors, and my Sophomore GPA will be a 3.4, 4 honors classes. Next year I expect to get somewhere in the range of 3.85 – 4.0. Im taking honors classes in the classes I’m most strong in, while taking level 2′s in the classes I am not as strong in.

Anyway, I know a 3.55 isnt that great. If I was to say keep it in that range instead of drastically improving, is it good enough to get into a good college.

Now I know this isn’t an excuse. But one of the reasons my gpa is lower this year is because of family issues. My mom had a heart attack 2 years ago, and my dad died of cancer a year and a half ago. Because of that, I suffer from extreme anxiety, constantly worrying about my mom. I just find it so hard to concentrate in school while worrying about my mom, and this anxiety makes it so hard to focus on studying, and get to sleep at a normal hour.

Also, my grandma was diagnosed with alzheimers disease this year. I was in and out of hospitals with her because of falls and other problems. I normally get home late from her retirement home where I volunteer at, leaving little time for homework.

Since colleges won’t know that story, is a 3.55 gpa good enough if I dont bring my GPA up, even though I think I will.

Ps – looking at NYU and university of maryland

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