now Jesse Jackson

chicagotribune.com/news/ct-...

[Serenity_finaly-1]

As soon as he heard it was a designer disease he just had to have it.

[NRyan in reply to Serenity_finaly-1]

lol!

[rebtar]

"In Jackson’s statement, he thanked family and friends for their support and said he views the diagnosis as an opportunity to be vocal in the need to find a cure."

[Ozie]

No surprise that his father had it. If a parent has there is a much bigger chance offspring will get it.

[jujulini in reply to Ozie]

i think people probably have a predisposition for parkinsons. but i believe the main cause is toxins, mainly mercury in our mouths. i think our generation has been exposed to alot of mercury- besides the dental fillings, theres the old thermometers (they used to break and we all thought it was great fun to play with it). i worked as a nurses aide in the 70s, and sometimes we would drop a whole tray of them. if that much mercury was spilled today, the hazmat team would be there. and then what did our mothers put on our cuts & scrapes? - mercurichrome! not to mention, all the vaccines. i think future generations will see less cases of parkinsons, with more dentists using safer alternatives.

now if we can just get them to stop manufacturing cfl lightbulbs. if people knew how toxic these lightbulbs are, they would never put them in their homes. below is a link with the epa recommendations for clean up of a broken cfl bulb. its so ridiculious; it would be funny, if it wasnt so scary. no one is gonna go through all that just to clean up a bulb, if they even know that theyre supposed to (which im sure the majority of people dont). theyre gonna think- "a little mercury wont hurt me". but it could just be the straw that broke the camels back.

sorry for ranting...........

epa.gov/cfl/cleaning-broken...

[Ozie in reply to jujulini]

Just seems that a big percentage of people with pd have a parent or close relative with it.

[Serenity_finaly-1 in reply to jujulini]

I totally agree on the light bulbs. LED much better.

[jujulini in reply to Serenity_finaly-1]

and now they have led light fixtures with no bulbs. fixtures last 35 yrs, and theres no bulbs to change. who wouldve thought?.....

[Serenity_finaly-1 in reply to jujulini]

Hated CFLs from the get go. I have been hoarding incandescent .

[jujulini in reply to Serenity_finaly-1]

thats hilarious....when i heard that incandescents were being phased out, i bought a case of 60wts. i have enough bulbs to last me til i croak. then i hear that theyre not phasing out the 60wts. and now with fixtures not needing any bulbs, i really have too many......