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Speaker 1: Calaroga Shark Media Happy New Year of Johnny Mack with

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five good news stories. A major European study has found

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that speaking multiple languages may help people age more slowly.

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Researchers analyze data from more than eighty thousand adults ages

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fifty one to ninety across twenty seven European countries and

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compared their biological aging rates with health and lifestyle factors.

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The results show that people who speak only one language

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were significantly more likely to experience accelerated aging. That's where

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a person's biological age is higher than their actual age.

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Each additional language a person spoke offered additional measurable protection. Boy,

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that's interesting, huh. Previous research connected bilingualism to slower cognitive decline.

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This study is the first one to show broader health

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and aging effects. Three quarters of working age adults in

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the EU speak more than one language. To order, country's

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rank highest Southern Europe. In the UK leg behind love

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works in Mysterious ways. Let's talk about Zach and Isabelle.

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Seven years ago, Zach was rushed to the hospital in

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Saint Paul in a coma. He had suffered a traumatic

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brain injury on the high school football field. He was

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eighteen years old. Nine days later Isabelle, she was sixteen.

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She arrived in a coma after car crash. Both families

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were told prepare for the worst. Isabelle had to have

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her right skullpiece removed, Zach had to have his left

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skull piece removed. Zach woke up. He came downstairs for

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a hospital news conference, which was broadcast in Isabel's room,

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where her father and aunt saw it and suggested they

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go down to speak with Zach. After Isabelle woke up

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and recovered, the mothers organized a dinner together. Seven years later,

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they are partners in life. A couple has converted their

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home into hedgehog Haven to help over five hundred spiky hedgehogs.

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Andy and Sharon have helped heal and rehabilitate over five

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hundred hedgehogs over a new nearly three years. They're not vets.

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They can't help when someone brings them a hedgehog. They

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started this in twenty twenty three. They had seven hedgehogs

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in the upstairs bedroom. Word got out that they were

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the people to bring when you have an injured hedgehog.

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They had to convert their garage. Now two years later,

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after fundraising, they've built a treatment ward in their garden,

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installed an ICU, and over four hundred rehab cages. They've

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taken on eighteen volunteers. They explained, we were out in

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the car one day and we saw a hedgehog out

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collapsed on a grass verge. We contacted the SSPCA and

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they weren't able to collect the hedgehog, so we drove

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the hedgehog all the way to the SSPCA Wildlife Center,

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which was fifty miles. We learned there was a guy

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near there that had been doing hedgehog rescue for twenty

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five plus years and was looking for someone to take

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it over. We went and had a chat with some people.

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They gave us the equipment to get us started. Sharon says,

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if there's a hedgehog out there that needs help and

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it's in pain, I can't say no and we have

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to help. We always say we have to draw a line,

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we can't take any more. But then you got that

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phone call and we're like, all right, bring it in.

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Andy and Sharon can out care for up to forty

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hedgehogs at any one time and have a team of

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volunteers to help cleaning, weighing, and checking the hedgehogs on

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a daily basis. The readers of Women's Weekly have a

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long tradition of coming together through knitting. This year they

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decided to break a Guinness World record. The magazine invited

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readers to create woolen mice for rescue cats and shelters. Collectively,

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the readers stitched forty six, five hundred and six woolen

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rats for donation to cats awaiting families. Editor Jeff says

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every mouse was handmade with care. And if you like

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working out during your commute, move to Soul. There are

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opining dedicated fitness and running hubs inside three subway stations.

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Sure why not. Each site includes changing rooms, personal lockers,

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powder rooms, vending machines stock with runner essentials such as headbands,

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socks andee supports, wipes, pain relief patches, and massage oil.

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Access is free. Lockers can be reserved using the app.

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One station will offer pre work runs for office workers,

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another will provide walking and light jogging programs, and the

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World Cup Stadium station will serve intermediate advance runners with

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fifteen ks. Nowhere in there did I hear anything about

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a shower? So maybe work out on the way home.

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Those are five good news stories for today. Have a

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great day.