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Greek Islands: readers' tips, recommendations and travel advice

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Picture postcard

While on holiday in Kalkan, we heard about a tiny Greek island called Kastellorizo (Meis in Turkish) a mile or two off the Turkish coast in the eastern Mediterranean. So we went to Kas to catch the ferry to the island and were met by the most stunning, colourful harbour, which was like a picture postcard. The island is about five square miles and most of the action is around the harbour with its bars and tavernas. Strolling around the unspoilt village was wonderful. Historically the island has been in the hands of the Turks, French, Italians, British and Greeks, and there is a small museum to visit.

We hired a water taxi, which took us to an isolated beach where we were deposited with the promise of a pickup in time for the ferry back. Four of us had a couple of hours there swimming totally alone. It was absolutely magical, and sure enough the water taxi returned to deliver us back to the harbour as promised. What an unforgettable experience.

Alan Simpson, Berkshire

Wartime memories

A day trip on Crete to little-known sites with no entrance fees and few tourists. From Rethymnon take the road to Armeni to explore the Minoan cemetery, more than 200 chambered passage graves in a grove of olive and oak trees. Nearby is a tiny bakery, where we drank peach tea and ate cheese and spinach pies, tiny apple pies and mushed grape desserts in the sunshine. Next we drove to the Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery by the sea at Souda Bay then headed farther west for the German war cemetery on a hillside known as Hill 107 at Maleme, the site of early fighting in the battle for Crete where the German invasion began in May 1941. Next to the entrance is a small caf with a huge collection of Second World War memorabilia inside and out.

Rosemary Wyeth, Wiltshire

Asklepion is one of the many sights of historical interest on Kos. Photo: AP

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Does a diet high in carbohydrates increase your risk of dementia?

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21-Feb-2014

Contact: Vicki Cohn vcohn@liebertpub.com 914-740-2156 Mary Ann Liebert, Inc./Genetic Engineering News

New Rochelle, NY, February 21, 2014Even small increases in blood sugar caused by a diet high in carbohydrates can be detrimental to brain health. Recent reports in medical literature link carbohydrate calorie-rich diets to a greater risk for brain shrinkage, dementia and Alzheimer's disease, impaired cognition, and other disorders. David Perlmutter, MD, best-selling author of Grain Brain, explores this important topic in a provocative interview in Alternative and Complementary Therapies from Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers. The article is available free on the Alternative and Complementary Therapies website.

Dr. Perlmutter, a board-certified neurologist and fellow of the American College of Nutrition, has just been appointed Editor-in-Chief of a new peer-reviewed journal, Brain and Gut, that will debut in summer 2014. The journal will publish leading-edge research dedicated to exploring a whole systems approach to health and disease from the intimate relationship between the brain and the digestive systems.

In the interview "Rethinking Dietary Approaches for Brain Health," Dr. Perlmutter says, "We live with this notion that a calorie is a calorie, but at least in terms of brain health, and I believe for the rest of the body as well, there are very big differences between our sources of calories in terms of the impact on our health. Carbohydrate calories, which elevate blood glucose, are dramatically more detrimental to human physiology, and specifically to human health, than are calories derived from healthful sources of fat."

Dr. Perlmutter will explore how brain health and cognitive function are linked to nutrition in his presentation, "The Care and Feeding of Your Brain," to be delivered at the 2014 Integrative Healthcare Symposium taking place now in New York City.

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Alternative and Complementary Therapies is a bimonthly journal that publishes original articles, reviews, and commentaries evaluating alternative therapies and how they can be integrated into clinical practice. Topics include botanical medicine, vitamins and supplements, nutrition and diet, mind-body medicine, acupuncture and traditional Chinese medicine, Ayurveda, indigenous medicine systems, homeopathy, naturopathy, yoga and meditation, manual therapies, energy medicine, and spirituality and health. Tables of content and a sample issue may be viewed on the Alternative and Complementary Therapies website.

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Fords newest exclusive feature: its "futurist"

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I'll bet that Sheryl Connelly's title is one you won't often come across: she's a Futurist.

Right?!

Ms. Connelly's job is to inhale social, cultural, technological, environmental and economic trends, and use them to predict what consumers will want in both the near and distant future. Basically, she's a pattern-recognition machine.

She then makes suggestions to her employer how they can best be prepared for the impact of these trends. That employer is Ford, the only automaker to keep such a person on staff.

Trends move slower than we think, about three years at a time, while a fad comes and goes quickly. For example, jeans are a trend, while the style of jeans (skinny or bootcut) are a fad.

Calling herself "a polite contrarian", we sat down together to chat about how Ford is preparing for the future. The automaker has a database of 200+ trends, and one she devotes much time to is our aging population.

Because as consumers grow older, it impacts all facets of the car manufacturing process.

Ford's Design Studio uses an "aging suit" to mimic an older buyer.

The designers don rubber gloves to reduce feeling and mobility in fingers, scratched glasses to reduce visibility, a suit that restrict movement around the knees and hips, and a neck brace which makes it difficult to swivel the neck. Then off they drive, experiencing what it's like for an eighty-year-old to be behind the wheel.

That's why the lip of Ford's newer cars are lower, because older people tend to enter the seat backwards, and then swing their legs inside.

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PART1-Cambodian Supernatural Vietnam War Ghost Movie ‘FREEDOM DEAL’ Asian Khmer Youth Film – Video

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