Your Brain's Future

What is the future of your brain? What is the future of my brain? You may reply, "Well, that is a strange question." And I readily agree. But strange as it sounds, I believe it has validity. It goes without saying for someone who has a close friend or family member who suffers from memory loss, dementia, or Alzheimer's.

A Healthy BRAIN for LIFE - How to Prevent Alzheimer's, Dementia, and Memory Loss by Richard Furman, MD, FACS says on page 189:1

“The Chicago Health and Aging Project offered some interesting estimates concerning the prevalence of Alzheimer's disease. The study showed that one in eight people, 13 percent, age sixty-five and older has Alzheimer's, and approximately 45 percent of everyone eighty-five and older has Alzheimer's.”

Alzheimer's is among the most dreaded conditions on the planet. I also learned that stage one can be present in one's brain with no obvious symptoms for up to twenty years and we have no control over our genetic inheritance. With statistics like that, who wouldn't be interested in his brain's future?

The five factors that increase the risk of Alzheimer's are:

• High cholesterol

• A sedentary lifestyle

• Excess weight

• High blood pressure

• Diabetes

The more of these risk factors we have, the greater is our risk of developing Alzheimer's.

The good news is that by developing healthy lifestyles, we can decrease the odds of developing Alzheimer's.

The risk factor that I have is a sedentary lifestyle. I have renewed my determination to exercise a minimum of thirty minutes a day. I highly recommend this book which is available on this website.

—Carol

How We Came To Be

Hi, I want to thank you for visiting our website. I hope that your experience here will be enjoyable and that it is user-friendly. I imagine you’re wondering what “Certain Books” means. Here’s a little background:

As a child, I loved to read. So much so, that my reading habit interfered at times with the activities of daily life. I read the whole set of biographies of famous people from our small-school library. Often, I read while walking the scant 1/2 mile distance from school to home. When I arrived home, I’d go straight to the couch and continue reading, oblivious to the requests of my mother to help out with the household chores. I am thankful that the books that were available to me were wholesome books.

As I matured I learned to enjoy and value books that were based on truth, informative, inspirational, and spiritually sound. Then I landed a job at a Christian book store. I enjoyed the years spent in various tasks from customer service to accounting. By the time I was managing a Christian book store a situation came up that changed my course. One of the books that was provided by our publisher taught as the desired method to “satisfy our soul’s hunger”, the techniques used in Eastern meditation. This became such a concern for me that ultimately it led to a parting of the ways. As only a manager, I did not have the final say as to the books that were sold in that store.

Consequently, my husband, Wesley and I decided to open our own store. That’s where the name “Certain Books” came in. We intend to carry only books that reflect truth.

—Carol