No. 42 Spring 2018 www.caring4sussex.co.uk PLEASE TAKE ONE It’s free! RAMPION Green energy or white elephants? A look at the facts as the wind farm comes online INSIDE Vinyl revolution! Spotlight on Ditchling 85 years of Guild Care The new Duke and Duchess of Sussex Plus all our regulars LEISURE • HEALTH • NEWS • COMMUNITY • SERVICES 2 How am I going to pay for my care? Independent financial advice can make a big difference www.westsussexconnecttosupport.org/carewise Information Things to do and Advice locally Products and Social Care services to buy SupporT Visit our website for support to help you live independently for longer. www.westsussexconnecttosupport.org For help using the website, call Adults’ CarePoint on 01243 642121 WS32242(B) 05.18 2 3 . 4 Issue No From the Editor Spring 2018 Dear readers on a boat trip to see it up close. of the week. WCHP could really You may Some interesting discoveries do with a venue that could notice we’ve were made – see for yourselves be opened every day—there increased on pages 14 and 15. are plenty of volunteers to the size of Unfortunately by the time cook and serve the food (and Caring4Sussex we heard that our county is to it smells nice, believe me), but These helplines are free. yet again, get a new duke and duchess they need somewhere to cook as there’s just so much to we were already about to go it and serve people without the The Silver Line 0800 4 70 80 90 pack inside, with our regular to print, so we only had half a stability of a home. If anyone 24 hours features, letters, news, health, page to devote to Harry and has ideas please contact us – gardening and Spotlight pages Meghan – but nonetheless I’m details below. Samaritans and now a new ‘Notes From the sure we’d all like to welcome The sun is finally out, and 116 123 Districts’, where we’ll bring you them to Sussex, and look we’re forecasting a long, hot 24 hours the highlights in planning and forward to their first visit as a summer so make the most of it Elderly Care Support local issues around the county. married couple. and go exploring plenty of that BUPA (Non-members welcome) Mon-Fri 8am-8pm Our cover story is about the Worthing Homeless Churches gorgeous Sussex countryside. Weekends 9am-5pm wind farm at Rampion – we’ve Projects very kindly took me 0800 001 010 all seen it go up, but how much to Horsham, where I saw the do we actually know about breakfast club run out of the Independent Age 0800 319 6789 it? 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Cari 4 ng 4 N ews 5 foods that could help soothe arthritis The Express Arthritis affects around 10 in osteoarthritis by stimulating million people in the UK – and the activity of osteoblasts World’s top climate scientists confess: it’s a condition that affects [bone-building cells] and Global warming is a QUARTER what people of all ages, according to chondrocytes [cartilage cells].” the NHS. Brazil nuts we thought – and computers got the It’s usually caused by a Brazil nuts are the best dietary wearing down of the smooth source of selenium available, effects of greenhouse gases wrong cartilage that lines the joints. which helps to improve the Mail on Sunday Tendons and ligaments have quality of cartilage proteins. A leaked copy of the world’s 15 years, recorded world temperatures to work harder after cartilage Just a single brazil nut most authoritative climate have increased at only a quarter of is worn away, and it may even contains at least 50mg of study reveals scientific the rate the IPCC claimed when it lead to bone rubbing on bone. selenium, Brewer says. forecasts of imminent doom published its last assessment in 2007. Symptoms can include joint Curry spices were drastically wrong. Back then, it said observed warming pain, restricted movement and “Curry spices – such as anise, The Mail on Sunday has over the 15 years from 1990-2005 inflammation. chilli, cloves, cumin, fennel, obtained the final draft of had taken place at a rate of 0.2ºC per But you could lower your ginger, mustard and turmeric a report to be published decade, and it predicted this would risk of pain by adding these – can reduce inflammation later this month by the UN continue for the following 20 years, foods to your diet, according to and improve arthritis pain in a Intergovernmental Panel on the basis of forecasts made by nutritionist Sarah Brewer. similar way to aspirin. on Climate Change (IPCC), computer climate models. Apples “Curry spices can modulate the ultimate watchdog But the new report says the “Eat an apple a day for their the activation of immune whose massive, six-yearly observed warming over the more anti-inflammatory polyphenols,” cells and reduce expression of ‘assessments’ are accepted by recent 15 years to 2012 was just she says. “One large apple inflammatory cytokines. environmentalists, politicians 0.05ºC per decade – below almost all [100g] provides the same “Turmeric contains curcumin, and experts as the gospel of computer predictions. benefits against inflamed joints which reduces cartilage climate science. The 31-page ‘summary for as 1,500mg of vitamin C. destruction in osteoarthritis, They are cited worldwide policymakers’ also reveals: IPCC “Wash but don’t peel your and is as effective as ibuprofen to justify swingeing fossil scientists accept their forecast apples – the polyphenols are for reducing joint pain.” fuel taxes and subsidies for computers may have exaggerated the five times more concentrated in Onions ‘renewable’ energy. effect of increased carbon emissions the skin than the flesh.” Arthritis patients should Yet the leaked report on world temperatures – and not eat more onions to reduce makes the extraordinary taken enough notice of natural Avocado is a great superfood symptoms. The vegetable works concession that over the past variability. that may even reverse by reducing inflammation in osteoarthritis, Brewer says. painful joints. “Avocado supplies “Onions are rich source The Independent unique anti-inflammatory of polyphenols and Elderly people grow as many new brain cells as young, study finds substances that suppress joint thiosulfinates, that suppress Elderly people grow as many hippocampus – a part of the brain inflammation by reducing the production of inflammatory new brain cells as teenagers, important for memory, emotion and production of inflammatory cytokines to reduce according to a new study which cognition – at a similar rate to young cytokines. inflammation. counters previous theories that people. “These have been found to “Red onions have the highest neurons stop developing after Researchers examined the brains of promote the repair of cartilage content of antioxidants.” adolescence. 28 previously healthy people who died Healthy men and women suddenly between the age of 14 continue to produce new and 79. neurons throughout life, “We found that older people have suggesting older people similar ability to make thousands remain more cognitively of hippocampal new neurons from and emotionally intact than progenitor cells as younger people previously believed, researchers do,” said the study’s lead author found. Maura Boldrini, associate professor of For decades it was thought neurobiology. that adult brains were hard- “We also found equivalent volumes wired and unable to form new of the hippocampus across ages.” cells.