Are you still relying on vitamins to keep you healthy? Learn the truth about which supplements help and which ones you can toss.

Once upon a time, you believed in the tooth fairy. You counted on the stability of housing prices and depended on bankers to be, well, dependable. And you figured that taking vitamins was good for you.

Oh, it’s painful when another myth gets shattered. Recent research suggests that a daily multi is a waste of money for most people—and there’s growing evidence that some other old standbys may even hurt your health. Here’s what you need to know.

Myth: A multivitamin can make up for a bad diet: An insurance policy in a pill? If only it were so.

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   Remembering the Farm House

Memory provided by: Irma Giglio, RN

“My cousin Judy and I were talking about our grandfather, Jabez MacDougall, and she remarked that he would live just as long as the youngest person to remember him lived. After that, he would just be another name engraved on a headstone in that little Bethel churchyard.

I started thinking that maybe I should write down some of my memories of my grandparents, parents, aunts and uncles, and all of the people of my childhood. I was born into a place that was not “up with the times” so to speak. Prince Edward Island, Canada. In that rural area of western PEI, there was no running water or electricity. No one had a tractor and only a couple of people had an automobile.

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   A Visit to Nova Scotia, c.1946

By: Norma Bouchie-Silva

“I like the Elder Insider post ‘Remembering the Farm House’. It brings back a lot of memories for me. When I was 14, I went to visit my relatives in Canada. The year was 1946. It was just a small little village in Nova Scotia called Petit de Grat.

I visited my grandmother, aunt, uncle and 5 cousins…all girls. They all lived in a small house with a pump for running water. The bathroom was an out-house. Very primitive but, I had more fun that summer!

Most evenings we walked along the dirt road (barefoot) to go to the post office for the mail. They also had a general store and a poolroom where all the teenagers met their friends and played pool.

On weekends we went to dances around the area. That was the most fun. These dances were all Square dances but not like what we have here. Everybody would make a big circle around the hall and square dance.  So you got to dance with everybody. I met lots of nice (BOYS) people and had a good time! They had Bingo every Friday night.

My uncle worked for the Canadian Government. He was a lighthouse keeper. He had a helper so he could come ashore for supplies etc. The family stayed ashore in the summer. In the winter they stayed on the island and home schooled the girls. This was one of the fun summers of my life!” 

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