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A Heart Helper May Come at a Price for the Brain. Stuart Bradford After a heart attack and quadruple bypass surgery in 2010, Steve Colburn of Portland, Ore., began taking a cholesterol-lowering statin at the maximum dose.

A Heart Helper May Come at a Price for the Brain

Soon, he began experiencing memory problems. “Thinking and remembering became so laborious that I could not even recall my three-digit telephone extension or computer password at work,” said Mr. Colburn, 62, a sales representative and product developer. “All day, every day, I felt like my brain was mush.” His doctor suggested a “drug vacation,” and when Mr. “I felt like I didn’t have a choice to give up the drug,” Mr. Statins are the most prescribed drugs in the world, and there is no doubt that for people at high risk of cardiovascular problems, the drugs lower not only cholesterol but also the risk of heart attack and stroke.

Nearly 21 million patients in the United States were prescribed statins last year, but nobody knows how many of them have experienced cognitive side effects. Against his doctor’s advice, Mr. Dr. 40 dumb things NOT to do in Mumbai. World's Greatest City: 50 reasons Mumbai is No. 1. 1.

World's Greatest City: 50 reasons Mumbai is No. 1

Most romantic home furnishings Since the 1950s, the old corner couch at the posh Taj hotel’s Sea Lounge has been where moneyed Mumbai introduces suitable boys and girls for marriage. 6 Real People With Mind-Blowing Mutant Superpowers. If the insane, explosive popularity if superhero movies is any indication, we are fascinated by people who are insanely better than us at any given thing.

6 Real People With Mind-Blowing Mutant Superpowers

Probably because, in real life, we're all such a bunch of incompetent boobs that we've been enslaved by blue paint, flashing lights and crying French babies. But it turns out, superpowers are real. And not just the secret ones that everyone has, or even the ones everyone thinks they have -- this Cracked Classic is about a group of people that, in a sane world, would already have multi-colored leather jumpsuits, delightfully mismatched personality traits and a skyscraper shaped like whatever they decide to call themselves.

Carl Jung Psychoanalysis: Philosophy Metaphysics of The Undiscovered Self Quotes Carl Jung Psychoanalyst. Philosophy of Psychoanalysis / Carl Jung (1875 - 1961) Discussion of Metaphysics / Philosophy of Famous Psychoanalyst Carl Jung's Undiscovered Self / Synchronicity.

Carl Jung Psychoanalysis: Philosophy Metaphysics of The Undiscovered Self Quotes Carl Jung Psychoanalyst

Carl Jung Pictures, Quotes / Quotations The contradiction, the paradoxical evaluation of humanity by man himself is in truth a matter for wonder ... in other words ...'man is an enigma'. (Carl Jung, The Undiscovered Self) What will the future bring? 6 Super Friends Villains That Didn't Give a @#%* Between Green Lantern, Superman, The Flash, and Batman, it was tough to picture any villain that could give the Super Friends trouble.

6 Super Friends Villains That Didn't Give a @#%*

Asking a cartoon writer to come up with a reasonable threat for them was a challenging, almost pointless endeavor. Understandably, this is why so many of them went insane. It's also why the Super Friends writers invented a technique many of us still use today: totally not giving a shit. And here are their villainous creations who gave the least. Oh, and here are the rules to The Super Friends Drinking Game if you're looking to get tore up while you enjoy cartoons. #6. 6 Famous Characters You Didn't Know Were Shameless Rip-Offs. Although the G.I.

6 Famous Characters You Didn't Know Were Shameless Rip-Offs

Joe action figures have existed since the 60s, it wasn't until 1982 that they gained personalities, an actual story and their very own nemesis; becoming the G.I. Joe we know and love. And we're not talking about the 1996 "extreme" version which we prefer to ignore and hate. 9 Famous Movie Villains Who Were Right All Along. Being a movie villain is not easy.

9 Famous Movie Villains Who Were Right All Along

Nobody respects your work, everyone loves your sworn enemy, and cheers if he straight up murders your ass. Of course, the villains deserve it, right? Well, actually Hollywood is littered with supposedly evil characters that, when you take a step back and ignore the cackling laughter and yellow teeth, were clearly the ones getting screwed over. Here are the so called bad guys who got the rawest deals of all: #9. The "villain": Mr. Above: The eyes of an educator. Anna and his company can no way be called Gandhians : Jyotirmaya Sharma News. Jyotirmaya Sharma | Mail Today | August 18, 2011 | UPDATED 09:46 IST. Love Quotes. Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes. GOLD standards revised for COPD management. Auroville, a universal city in the making. The Real Mahatma Gandhi - Magazine. Gluekit Joseph Lelyveld subtly tips his hand in his title.

The Real Mahatma Gandhi - Magazine

The word Mahatma (often employed in ordinary journalistic usage without any definite article, as if it were Mohandas Gandhi’s first name) is actually the Sanskrit word for “Great Soul.” It is a religio-spiritual honorific, to be assumed or awarded only by acclaim, and it achieved most of its currency in the West by association with Madame Blavatsky’s somewhat risible “Theosophy” movement, forerunner of many American and European tendencies to be found in writers, as discrepant as Annie Besant and T.