“Eating Nuts In Your Forties Could Cut Dementia Risk In Later Life, Study Finds,” by Natasha Preskey, Independent Quote: “Eating nuts from mid-life onwards could help stave off dementia as we age, a large-scale study has found. Researchers at the National University of Singapore followed almost 17,000 people from 1993 to 2016, assessing first their diets and, later, their cognitive function. People who began eating nuts in their 40s twice a week or more were more than a fifth less likely to have problems with memory when they were over 60, compared with those who ate nuts less than around once a month.” LTC
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“Promoting the sixth insurance program,” by Wang Qiao, ChinaDaily Quote: “China already has five social insurance programs: elderly care, healthcare, unemployment, work injury and maternity. The government runs the programs, with the individuals and employers paying premiums on a compulsory basis. Four years into the trial run, the long-term care insurance is likely to become the sixth program.” LTC Comment, Stephen A. Moses, President, Center for Long-Term Care Reform: Interesting how most U.S. analysts want to handle long-term care in the same way as the Chinese Communist Party—with compulsory social insurance enforced by government. For more on LTC in China,
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