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Thursday 11 April 2019

World Parkinson’s Awareness Day

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The aim of Parkinson’s Awareness Day is to raise awareness of Parkinson’s disease, promoting a greater understanding of this condition and how it can affect a person

World Parkinson’s Day is supported by the European Parkinson’s Disease Association.

James Parkinson was an English surgeon, apothecary, geologist, palaeontologist, and political activist. He is most famous for his 1817 work, An Essay on the Shaking Palsy in which he was the first to describe "paralysis agitans", a condition that would later be renamed Parkinson’s disease by Jean-Martin Charcot.

James Parkinson: 11 April 1755 – 21 December 1824.

World Parkinson’s Day or World Parkinson’s Awareness Day or World Parkinson’s Disease Day is held each year on his birthday, 11 April.

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Are not

People with Parkinson’s are not some weird people on the edge of human experience.

Helen Mirren

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Benefits of coffee

You get the health benefits of coffee up through about the first twenty-four ounces. It’s the biggest source of antioxidants for Americans, and we think it helps prevent Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s as well.

Mehmet Oz

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Better

In fact, Parkinson’s has made me a better person. A better husband, father and overall human being.

Michael J. Fox

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Four or more cups of coffee a day

People who drink four or more cups of coffee a day - it doesn’t matter whether it is caffeinated or decaffeinated - have a reduction in Type 2 diabetes, or a reduced incidence of Type 2 diabetes, of about fifty percent. The same with Parkinson’s, although there it is more related to the caffeine.

Gregory Stock

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I forgot to worry about Parkinson’s

Worrying won’t prevent the worst outcome. I’ve learned to live in the moment, which is not my natural tendency. I’ve always thought that if I worried about something enough, it wouldn’t happen. I forgot to worry about Parkinson’s.

Tracy Pollan