Can We Kill Delilah Tonight?
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| Why Why Why Delilah |
Say what?!
Well that is what one of my dear resident friends at Manor Care Cherry Hill would ask every time I would go in and perform there.åÊ
Her name was Sarabelle and I just found out she died peacefully in her sleep a few days ago. I was sad but glad she went that way. And then I smiled because every time I sing a particular song or go into Manor Care, I will think of her.
The song is Delilah, the Tom Jones version not the other one from the Plain White T’s. Watch it here.åÊ As with a lot of songs we often like them because they have a good beat and a catchy chorus and Delilah qualifies. “Why Why Delilah.” You’ll see. Go watch and listen.
See a lot of times we like the song but we have no clue what the lyrics are saying and the story they are painting. In this case Delilah is the cheating girlfriend of our singer. And bottom line when her lover leaves her house Tom shows up and kills her.
Well I painstakingly make this a part of my act, explaining what is taking place in the song. I make the point that we often have no idea what is happening in a song. And then I embellish because during the song there is an instrumental part and it comes back to the lyrics where he is killing Delilah again. So I tell residents we just didn’t kill her right the first time and she rose from the dead during the instrumental part! And we have to kill her again.
Well they all get in a fit of laughing. And once they realize that some cheating woman is getting murdered, well that changes everything. You must now sing Delilah every time you come here or else!
Well thank you for that Sarabelle. I trust Delilah might be floating around somewhere up there with you. Ask her how she’s doing. And thanks for making me smile.
I am sure your friends will demand that we kill Delilah when I show up in Cherry Hill in October. I will be glad to oblige. And I will be thinking of you.
New Report on Senior Obesity Contradicts Older Studies. Bottom Line – It’s Bad for You!
Earlier this year we published a post that essentially said that body weight does not necessarily correspond to longevity. According to a report in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA),åÊ it said that those carrying extra pounds outlive their thinner peers and those who were overweight at ages 65 and older, even those who were highly obese, had a lower mortality rate.
Timeout.
Obesity does not decrease seniors’ risk of death, according to a new study.åÊ
The new study also suggests that long-term care providers will see an increasing number of obese residents in the coming decades.åÊ
The research team was led by Ryan Masters, Ph.D., a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health & Society Scholar at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health. The team analyzed National Health Interview Survey data and mortality records in the National Death Index from 1986-2006.
In that 20-year period, obesity was associated with more than 18% of premature deaths of white and black Americans aged 40-85, the researchers found. Prior studies put that number at just 5%.åÊ
Prior studies also indicated that obesity is associated with a decreased mortality risk in seniors. However, the so-called ÛÏobesity paradoxÛ is based on studies that did not account for seniors living in nursing homes, assisted living communities or other facilities, Masters told the Los Angeles Times. He said his own research shows that mortality increases sharply as obese people age.
Obesity rates may be declining among young people, but Masters and his team said that a significant portion of the population is already obese and is likely to stay that way throughout their lives.åÊ
ÛÏIt stands to reason that we won’t see the worst of the epidemic until the current generation of children grows old,” said study co-author Bruce Link, Ph.D.
The study was published Thursday in the American Journal of Public Health.
Midlife Eating Disorders More Common Than You Think (Video)
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Midlife Eating Disorders More Common Than You Think
(Source – AARP)
In June 2012 the International Journal of Eating Disorders published the results of a seminal study on the prevalence of eating disorders in midlife and beyond.
5 Signs You May Have an Eating Disorder
2. You worry that you have lost control over how much you eat.
3. You’ve lost more than 14 pounds in a three-month period.
4. You believe yourself to be fat when others think you are too thin.
5. Thinking about food dominates your life.
Lead study author Cynthia Bulik, Ph.D., director of the Center of Excellence for Eating Disorders at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, found that 13 percent of American women 50 or older experience symptoms of an eating disorder; 60 percent report that their concerns about weight and shape negatively affect their lives; and 70 percent are trying to lose weight.
Those figures mirror the rates found among teens and young women. An eating disorder is a mental illness with close links to depression and anxiety.
These conditions also have a serious medical impact.
Anorexia is the deadliest of all psychiatric disorders, killing up to 20 percent of chronic sufferers. Starvation, binge eating and purging all damage the heart and gastrointestinal systems. Erratic eating can cause hormone imbalances that can lead to osteoporosis. Repeated vomiting and malnutrition damage teeth, too.åÊ
These problems affect eating disorder sufferers of any age, but they hit harder and faster as people get older and their bodies become less resilient.
The physiological and psychological changes that happen during menopause seem to echo changes at puberty, Bulik says, which may make this time a high-risk period for the development of new eating disorders or the reemergence of old ones.åÊ
