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Ironically, the latest COVID-19 lockdown in England has been announced, a couple of days before National Stress Awareness Day on the 2nd November, and International Stress Awareness Week from the 2nd through to the 8th. When surveyed, almost one in five adults (19.2%) were likely to be experiencing some form of depression during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic in June 2020. This had almost doubled from around 1 in 10 (9.7%) before the pandemic (July 2019 to March 2020). F

Various disorders qualify as dementia, and Alzheimers is the most common. Up to 80% of dementia cases are classified as Alzheimers Disease, and this affects 30 million people worldwide. This number is expected to double every 20 years based on the current trends. In 2017 nearly 13% of all deaths in the UK were attributed to Alzheimers and dementia. One in ten people (10%) of people aged 65 and older has Alzheimer's disease. About one-third of people age 85 and older (32%) hav

Much has been written about ketogenic diets recently. Advocates pitch them as the antidote to many chronic diseases-of-the-day from heart-disease to cancer, Alzheimer's, dementia to obesity. They have also been used to treat epilepsy with much success. Ketogenic diets are also sometimes suggested as a weight-loss alternative to reduced carbohydrate diets (although both diets also seem to support the general principle that one should maintain a calorie deficit to lose weight)