Some of us can't hear so well, me among them.  But will this condition lead to dementia?  I can tell you the answer now...YES.  But are there ways to delay or avoid that condition?  Read this posting to find out how.  Here is another more scientific graphic. The bottom line is that there are a lot of people in our society struggling with disabling hearing loss. 45-54        5% 65-74      22% 75+         55% But those are the disabling unfortunates.  There is a transition to get to this stage, and a hearing aid can help. There is a term for this ailment:   presbycusis ( prez-buh-KYOO-sis ), or age-related hearing loss .   For Americans 18 and older, 15%  suffer from this ailment, or 37.5 million people.   This number is 55% if you are older than 74.  Generally, both ears are affected.   Because the loss is gradual, you may not realize you are getting...

Democrat Tom Suozzi beat Republican Mazi Pilip to take the New York congressional seat that was left vacant when Republican George Santos was expelled from the House of Representatives.  Did you know that former speaker Kevin McCarthy not only lost his leadership, but he outright resigned from Congress?  There are now, I think, 219 Republicans, 213 Democrats, with three vacancies, all Republican seats.  Speaker Mike Johnson's job is getting more complicated.   How important is just one more Democratic seat in the House?  Well, DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas got impeached yesterday by one vote.  Had Suozzi been there, that would have failed again.  This matter dies here anyway, for the Senate won't do anything about any further impeachment.   About McCarthy , he now has time to work behind the scenes to hurt the re-election chances of Republicans who ousted him. About vitamins from  Wikipedia : Vitamins are organic molecules essent...

My blog of 21 June 2011 was entitled:   A WORLD POPULATION OF 7 BILLION .  I went on to say: If there has been any criticism of my books, it is that  I have ignored the most important parameter:  the world population .   I didn't have a full chapter dedicated to this topic in any of my publications, and not one of my 100+ Huffington Post articles treated this subject. Why? ... mostly because there was not much I could add to the subject than to say that population growth will reverse once the world becomes economically prosperous, for then, the central government will have something like Social Security in place and parents won't need to have many children to take care of them at old age . It took us from our beginnings in Africa, perhaps 300,000 years ago, to finally reach a population of 1 billion in 1804.  218 years later, we last year reached 8 billion.  However, the  good news is that the time it takes to double our population is fi...