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Show Wednesday. January 30, 1980. THE HERALD, Provo, Utah—Page 23 Derhenwrence Feminis t Title Too Young to Forget I'm writing to you in desperation. To put it plainly, I can't remember. | am serious. | can't. I've gone to writing things turned purple, his eyes watered and he was unable I do. I would be too embarrassed to go to my to exhale. doctor. He would probably snicker anyway. Myhusband becomes perturbed with me. I am young and on no medication. What can I do? DEAR READER — Yourefrained from telling said he had a slight heart attack a year ago but he hasn't been back to any doctors for any check ups me what your age is but it really doesn’t matter because people can have memory problems at any age. It is not necessarily a sign of old age. That's why wehaveto be careful about deciding that an older person who has trouble remembering things has this problem simply because of age. There are a lot of reasons for suchdifficulties. Since we do see this rather commonly in people as they get older, though, we tend to associate it with age. I included quite a bit of information on this problem in The Health Letter number14-2, The Aging Mind. I am sending you a copy that has some suggestions in it about what you cando in reference can send 75 cents with a long, stamped, selfaddressed envelope forit. Send your request to me, in care of this newspaper, P.O. Box 1551, Radio City Station, New York, NY 10019. Some people seem to be able to rememberthings more easily than others buta lot of this is training. If you've neverlearned to play ihe piano, you may not do very well if you sit down to play. The same thingis true in training the memory.If you haven't He could breathe in but he couldn't since then. DEAR READER — You're a very good observer Your grandfather apparently had some form of asthmatic attack Characteristically, these individ uals can inhale but they have trouble exhaling. It's the effort they have to maketo forcetheairout of the lungs that causes the wheezing one hears during an acute asthmatic attack The blueness of the face was because the lungs werenot able to provide enough fresh oxygen to the circulation. Wecall this cyanosis. made anyreal effort totrainit, ijt may not work so well. I would suggest that you start a regular program of exercising your mind and developing your memory. Start learning to remember lists of things. I have included in The Health Letter I've sent you the idea of using word associations.Start memorizing poems, quotations or other things. Try to picture things as you see them.In fact, you might be wise to go by the bookstore and pick up a good book on memorytraining. I do think it's very important for people to start training their memory when they're young. The higher the developmentof their memory and mental faculties, the longer they will serve them well as they get older. I often think one of our best examples ofthis is some of our great musicians who havelived to quite old age and still are able to remember and play musical scores with unequalled skill. That's because they trained their memories and continued Provos orem than one quart. Manysta- tions outside the United States sell gasoline by the liter The independent federal board is charged FUNTIME b1'3 MUSKETEERS” anoars CAST OF QUITE A 1220 WORTH ~* ins adult ype material and | Sat Mat. 396 pum. under Iy years ovage are FERRE or PG) fe x * STEAK SALE « « admitted [higher in The age lumit may be some places Motion Mieture Association of s| CHICKEN FRI PLATTER Amerion Reg. $3.38 + {ll You Can Eat SOUP 'n SALAD BAR « Chicken Fried Steak with Country Gravy - Baked Potato or French Fries + A thick lab of Stockade Toast Our quality will keep you comin back. 466 North State Street, Orem to work the memory system soit continues to func- tion for them for years. Basically, the mind is a lot like muscles and it can be trained in almost everyone. Sometimes it’s easier to train the mind of somepeople thanitis others, just as it’s easier for some people to learn to becomea skilled musician thanit is for others. Sometimes a person may have too much to remember. A good exampleis the busy executive. He usually has a secretary to remember the more ALL OF PROVO A AND OREM IS TALKING A3OUT.. routine things for him while he remembers thebig things. A mother can have so many things to remember in a busy family that she may have the same problem. But in most cases some memory trainingwill help at least some. DEAR DR. LAMB — Since soldiers. or hikers take salt tablets to retain water, therefore permitting them to go for a longerperiod of time without water, why can’t they just drink salt water? DEAR READER — You've made a couple of presumptions that are not correct. In the first place,notall soldiers or hikers take salt tablets and they shouldn't. The only people who should ever fake salt tablets are those whoreally lose a lot of salt and that’s through copious sweating. That's why salt loss usually occurs only in vigorous athletes or heavy laborers. They can get additional salt through food andliquids that contain salt. ‘Thus, salt tablets are not to keep a person from havingto drink water.Thesalt is merelyto replace the salt lost in sweat. In fact, if a person takes salt tablets and fails to drink adequate amounts of water at the sametime, he mayincrease his chances of having a heatstroke. DEAR DR. LAMB — Hecently my grandfather had somekind of a respiratory attack. He had been outside in the evening air whenit first started. He said he couldn’t catch his breath. He asked for a FEW PEOPLE. FOX4 "2Wes 1145 Pa 374-5525 . 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