As our society ages, rates of dementia are expected to climb, but yet doctors have few effective strategies to address symptoms. A new study from the Canadian Medical Association Journal suggests that medication and supplements aren’t the answers for many seniors in maintaining brain function into old age, but that mental and cognitive exercises show the most promise.

Mild cognitive impairment, in which older adults show lapses in memory and other mental functions that aren’t serious enough to impair their daily activities, affects about 10% to 20% of those over age 70. Each year, about 10% of these people will progress to develop dementia, a more serious form of impairment that can drastically affect their independence. In the study that reviewed global research dating back to the 1960’s it was found that seniors that did mental exercises saw greater improvement and less developed dementia that those that were treated with medication or supplements.

Puzzles, memory games, and activities that challenge the mind were shown to have amazing positive benefits for the seniors in the study over the long term. It helps to look at your brain like any other muscle in your body and that it also needs to be exercised.

Take time to challenge your brain and have some fun. If you have relatives who are seniors, join them for an afternoon doing a jigsaw puzzle, or introduce them to simple to learn computer games. You’ll be spending quality time with someone who love, helping them, and helping your brain in the long term too stay as sharp as it can be.

We’re still working hard on getting our new website design perfect for when we do the full transition from our current site. This will happen in the middle of the May. We’ll send out an email to all our customers letting them know before the change occurs.

We’ve had some questions from customers on what this means for their user accounts and we want everyone to know that nothing will change with them. You’ll login using your same User Name and Password. All the information on your current orders and available refills will still be accessible on the new site. The new site is changing the design, and trying to make finding and ordering our great discount medication an easier experience on the web.  We’ll be launching a full mobile compatible site along with the redesign, so you’ll be able to take Canada Drugs anywhere your phone or tablet goes.

We randomly drew two more customer names last week that used the new site to place their orders. William from Minneapolis, and Hollie from Virginia each won themselves a $50 credit on their next order.  We want you to try the new site and let us know what you love, what you like, what you hate and what we should change. So go take a look at https://new.canadadrugs.com/ and take it for test spin. If you place an order, you’re entered to in the draw for $50. Use the yellow tab on the right-hand side of the page to give us feedback. We want to have the best website to serve you and we’ll do that by listening to what you have to say.

Easter is a great holiday. It’s a nice welcome to spring and good time to catch up with family and friends. Another benefit of this holiday is all the Easter eggs that the Easter Bunny might be leaving around your home on Sunday. Something to keep in mind is that those eggs, the real ones from the chicken and even the chocolate ones can be good for your health too!

You want to avoid a sugar load on Easter Sunday, but scientific study after scientific study has concluded that dark chocolate in moderation can have numerous health benefits.  Dark choclate has also been shown in studies to lower blood pressure in people with elevated blood pressure and reduce LDL cholesterol by as much as 10 percent. Chocolate contains serotonin, a natural anti-depressant. Chocolate also stimulates endorphin production, which creates feelings of happiness and pleasure, which is why you probably feel so good on Easter Sunday after finding and eating some of those hidden treats!

Several studies have found chocolate to be one of the best cancer-fighting foods along with foods like red wine, blueberries, garlic, and tea. Two ways that chocolate works as a cancer fighter is by inhibiting cell division and reducing inflammation, though research is ongoing and will probably find additional ways in which chocolate fights cancer. Many studies have shown that dark chocolate is good for the brain. Researchers at Johns Hopkins University found that it can protect the brain after a stroke by shielding the nerve cells from further damage. Dark chocolate has also been found to improve memory. Researchers at California’s Salk Institute found that a chemical in chocolate called epicatechin improved the memory of mice. So don’t eat that entire bunny in one sitting, but don’t feel guilty if you enjoy a couple of dark chocolate eggs over the weekend, just tell everyone that they’re health food.

What about the non-chocolate eggs, you know the ones that come form chickens, are those good for you too?  The answer is yes! Eggs are one of the best foods to include in a balanced diet. Eggs are low in calories, are a rich source of protein and are packed with nutrients thought essential to good health, particularly vitamin D, vitamin B12, selenium and choline.

So from everyone here at Canada Drugs, we hope you have a wonderful Easter holiday and find all the eggs the Easter Bunny left for you.

Did you know that not only can you save big on high-quality medication for yourself at Canada Drugs, but you can also get the same savings on the prescriptions your veterinarian has written for your animal family members? It’s true! Canada Drugs offers a full line of discount brand and generic pet medication from Canada and the United Kingdom.

If you think going to your local pharmacy is expensive, you’ve probably also felt some pain in your wallet if you’ve ever bought medication from your vet. The mark-up on pet medication if often 200% or more!

Canada Drugs has operated a sister site called PetDrugs.com for almost 10 years. It offers leading brands like Advantage and Frontline, as well as specialty drugs for most common aliments that our pets deal with.  As part of our ongoing redesign of our website, we recently rolled all the PetDrugs.com products into our product database here at Canada Drugs. This makes for easy one-site shopping for great savings for you, your husband or wife, and your dog, cat, rabbit, turtle, horse, cow or dolphin.

Seriously, we have a few people that order a medication from us for their dolphins. How cool is that?

Ordering pet medication is pretty much the same as ordering medication for yourself. We still require a prescription from your vet, and you’ll just have to create an online patient profile for your pet (Unless they can do it themselves, and in that case we wish to congratulate you for having the best trained and smartest pet in the entire world.) After you do that we’ll ship you your pet medication for free.

The savings on most of our pet medication is between 25% and 70% cheaper than what you would pay buying the same drugs from your vet or a chain pharmacy. We all to spoil our pets, so if you save a few hundred dollars year ordering your pet medication from Canada Drugs, feel free to use your savings on a nice steak for your dog, or some smoked sockeye salmon for your cat. They’ll love you even more for it!

If you’ve ordered with CanadaDrugs.com recently, or visited our website you’ve probably heard about the 10 Star Commitment we introduced at the start of 2013. This was a big change to how CanadaDrugs.com serves you, but it’s a change that we were proud to make and stand behind 100%.

The 10 Star Commitment means you will have access to the very best brand and generic medication from Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand, still at exceptional savings over U.S. retail prices. These are the exact same medications citizens in those countries purchase for themselves and their families. There are no compromises and no shortcuts; your safety and the quality of medications is an absolute we will always look out for. We are leading the industry by taking these steps to ensure you receive what you expect, what your physician needs you to take, and at the prices you can afford. We are the very first online Canadian pharmacy to make this commitment to our customers and did this because it’s the right thing to do.We’re still a pharmacy that is dedicated first and foremost to saving you money off your prescription drugs. This is what we’ve been doing since 2001 one each of the 7 million orders we’ve filled since than. But the 10-Star Commitment raises the bar, it means that you’ll save money, but only on the best medication, from the best sources in the world. We want our customers to know that CanadaDrugs.com has the most stringent standards in the world, and that just because you’re saving money off your drug bill, you shouldn’t have one worry about where your medication comes from. The 10-Star commitment is a guarantee of trust and value.

Let us know what you think about our 10 Star Commitment? We’re working hard to be the absolute best source of affordable medication in the world, and we love to hear from our customers on what else we can do to help you save and give you improved access to safe, quality, affordable drugs.