{"id":17,"date":"2007-02-16T08:31:34","date_gmt":"2007-02-16T08:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/?p=17"},"modified":"2007-02-16T08:31:34","modified_gmt":"2007-02-16T08:31:34","slug":"loneliness-another-cause-of-alzheimers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/loneliness-another-cause-of-alzheimers\/","title":{"rendered":"Loneliness, another &#034;cause&#034; of Alzheimer&#039;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are a lot of things out there that are blamed for the devastating neurological disease, but what exactly causes Alzheimer&#8221;s.<br \/>\nScientists can describe what it is, sort of, but they certainly don&rsquo;t know what causes it.&nbsp; As in any case where we don&rsquo;t have a clear idea of what&rsquo;s going on, a number of potential &ldquo;causes&rdquo; are popular.&nbsp; Aluminum (like the kind in 12 oz cans and anti-perspirant) is a pretty popular villain, as well as copper.&nbsp; I even had an girlfriend once who refused to eat pork on the grounds that it was linked to the disease.&nbsp; A new <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/health\/6332883.stm\">report<\/a> coming out of the US has just added another potential source of the problem: loneliness.&nbsp; Apparently loneliness, or more specifically <em>feeling<\/em> lonely can up to double your chances of developing Alzheimer&rsquo;s.<br \/>\nDoes that mean that having imaginary friends could prevent it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are a lot of things out there that are blamed for the devastating neurological disease, but what exactly causes Alzheimer&#8221;s..?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[169],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-original-duenos","tag-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}