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.
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.
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.
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.