Keeping the entire of your home in reach with a stairs lift chair

When I was a young boy, I remember going with my mother to visit the home of an elderly lady who lived alone in a very large house; In this house there was a mechanical stairs lift chair that ran all the way up the side of the main staircase. I remember at the time thinking that that was something that you didn’t see all the time and that for someone to have such a thing in their home must mean that they were somebody special. Of course this was during the late seventies and the truth of the matter was that this was a person who was quite well off and could afford a mobility device that was much more expensive to have installed at that time compared to today. Since that time I have had the opportunity to see a few more of these enabling devices and come to appreciate how much of a difference they can make in the life of the elderly and the disabled. For such people, going up or down the stairs can oftentimes be a challenge considering their physical condition. Of course many elderly and disabled individuals are able to live independently in their own homes with just some assistance instead of twenty four-seven care, of course an implication of this is that such individuals might need help and assistance at times when there is no one there to be of any help or assistance. So if you are on your own and need to do something that most might take for granted like, say, go up or down the stairs, then the installation of a home stair lift chair makes perfect sense. In the past you might have heard references made to such types of devices as a handicapped or handicap lift chair, a stairs lift chair or a motorized chair lift, these are all pretty much referring to the same kind of thing: a chair lift for stairs in the home.

Keeping the entire of your home in reach with a stairs lift chair

The whole home can still be in your reach with a stair lift chair

n July of 2009, I was musing over how the timely installation of a stairs lift chair in the home could mean that the upstairs of one’s home would not have to be out of reach any longer. For obvious reasons that potential for accesibility would be abig deal for many facing increasing restrictions upon their personal mobility.

Back then I had seen some (at that time) recent dealings with stair chair lifts being installed in people’s homes and it had brought to mind my first exposure to such mobility aids when I was a child.

In can still remember back when I was little boy and my Mother and I were out visiting at the house of a senior lady who was living on her own in a very large house and whose physical abilities had been steadily deteriorating. Despite her lessened condition however, she was able to still live in the familiarity and comfort of her own home with just some minor assistance from a home support worker and the regular visits of a community nurse because she had been able to have a stair chair lift installed in her home, having it run up alongside the main staircase. I remember being quite impressed by what I was seeing there given that at that time such a set up was not so common to see in someone’s residence. Of course thinking back upon it now the design was a bit more rudimentary than I am used to seeing today and as I recall, the seated portion of the chair lift did look to be rather basic and uncomfortable looking. The point that I am trying to make here however, is that because this person could afford to take the initiative and go and have such a mobility aid installed in the first place, she was able to remain living in her own home that she was used to and not have to resort to relocating to a one story residence or even to a community care faci lity for more independent seniors. For me, that is always going to be a strong example of how much difference the right mobility aids introduced at the right time can make in the lives of the physically challenged.

The whole home can still be in your reach with a stair lift chair

Reclining lift chairs for increased comfort in the home

A while back, I was helping to look after an elderly gentleman in his own home as a community support worker and one of the enabling mobility devices that he had in his home to help aid him on a daily basis was a motorized or electric lift chair recliner. When out of curiosity I started looking into what kinds of electric lift chairs were out there, I have to admit that I was a little amazed at the diversity of chairs that are to be found on the market today. The important thing to remember is that often when our bodies start to show serious signs of aging, some tasks become more difficult. One task that can become very titanic is standing and sitting. lesser chairs, like recliners, are often surprisingly onerous to raise out of for a senior, especially if an individual has been sitting for an extended period of time. This is why many folks use lift chairs. A lift chair is a recliner, but it is also much more. In the base of the chair, an electric motor helps to control the backrest and footrest. This motor also raises the chair slowly through the air. Such mobility aids are also commonly known as motorized lift chairs and even handicap or handicapped lift chairs, however that last term is somewhat pejorative in nature.

From my own experiences in the workplace dealing with some of my clients, the ones that have their own lift chairs in their own homes have made it clear to me just how much of a difference owning such a mobility aid has made in their lives; the fact that they can relax in comfort in their own homes and not feel any stress or sense of urgency in regards to needing to have someone come to their assistance any time that they need to vacate their recliners for such reasons as that of needing to go to the bathroom.

Reclining lift chairs for increased comfort in the home

The right power lift chair means reclining in comfort at home

It was about two years ago this month that I decided to kind of codify what I thought I had learned up to that point on the subject of mobility aids in general and motorized reclining power lift chairs, considering them at the time to be an enabling mobility aid suitable in most any home. Now, two years later, do I still feel the same about the potential benefits of such an equipped chair in the home?

It was a comforting and pleasing memory of an elderly gentleman that I use to help look after that had got me thinking about this kind of home-based mobility aid in the first place;  As a community support worker, I had been helping to look after a senior gentleman who had been experiencing a lessening of his own personal mobility over a number of years due to the effects of his early experiences with polio disease when in his youth. My thoughts of him in the recent past had led me to start thinking of the various mobility devices that he had had in his home to help him get by on a daily basis. One that he really treasured was his electric lift chair recliner that he had in a prominent spot in his living room that allowed him to relax and enjoy watching television in comfort. When I mentioned this device to someone else who also works in healthcare one day and how much of a difference it was making for this man who would otherwise find it too difficult to get safely in and out of his recliner without much assistance, they asked me whether it was a two position, a three position or an infinite position model of chair and whether it had been custom sized for the man? The look on my face must have told this person that I really had no clue of what it was that they were asking me. Seeing as how I was the person that had broached the subject in the first place, it was a bit embarrassing that I could not offer any kind of informed opinion on the subject. Looking back at my discussions on this a couple years ago I think I failed to mention this embarrassing lack of knowledge on the chairs as the motivating factor for my subsequent digging on the subject, choosing instead to just chalk it up to my ‘idle curiosity’.

The right power lift chair means reclining in comfort at home

Increasing awareness of mobility aids for the disabled

It recently occurred to me that I have been working in community health care for almost ten years now as a Resident Care Attendant. wow, where has the time gone, eh? I have to admit that my work has really increased my awareness of the issues related to and involving access and mobility for elderly individuals and for those individuals who are physically disabled. Before entering the health care field, I knew that there were many people who were – due to their various personal circumstances – say, confined to a wheelchair, but I did not have much appreciation for the varying degrees of limited, restricted access or disability that people experience and how each individual has to deal with them.

Now, with some years of exposure and experience behind me I have to admit that I can really appreciate these differences in the individual situation. Recently, i have had reason to think over what I have actually learned about the issues of mobility and access and have decide to in a sense codify or unify this knowledge by putting together this site. At one time I knew what wheelchair was but could not adequately describe to you the difference between a wheelchair and a power chair or what a ‘power chair’ even was; I could not have told you the difference between a wheelchair and a lift chair or a stair lift ( effectively a chair lift for stairs ) and a mechanical lift. And if you asked me the difference between a scooter and a mechanical wheelchair, I would have been challenged to tell you. Well, here is where I hope to present some helpful information on the differences. I figured that one of the best ways to present this information would be to break it up by category, giving each category of mobility aid or device its own area of focus. This way I can give such things as lift chairs, stair lift chairs, mechanical or motorized wheelchairs and scooters appropriate coverage. So with this site I will be able to elaborate on what I have seen with my own eyes; I will be able to reflect on how I have seen various clients go out on the town and far afield in their electric or motorized wheel chairs and be able to attend functions such as Weddings and other social gatherings and feel more a part of their local community because they were not so greatly affected by factors like having to find someone able to physically help move them around or to even help get them to the location of an event: with their power chair, they often are able to transport them self to a location unaided. With the standard home lift chair recliner, I can reflect on how I have seen clients be able to relax at home in their own living rooms and not feel stressed because they now have the capability of getting out of their own recliner without the need for any assistance; without such an accessible chair, they were facing the regular and often urgent concern of needing help to get out of their chair for any time that they needed to use their bathroom. Any discussion on here regarding the variety of stair lift chairs out there would certainly include my observations of how the installation of such devices in the home of someone I have known has meant a huge difference in her ability to access all points of her multi-storied home, something that she was no longer able to do before due to a slow or gradual decrease in her personal mobility. Finally, I will want to include my experiences working with a t least one client who, due to severe decreases in her personal mobility resulting from advanced stage Cerebral Palsy, had until recently found herself much more dependent or reliant on others to get around in the community than she had ever been before – at least that is until she was able to acquire a medical mobility scooter and once again decide for herself how and when she was going to go out and about. These examples and more all come to mind. I will also try to include some mention of the different manufacturers of these vehicles and devices so that references to terms such as Golden lift chairs or Pride lift chairs will have some more relevancy to the reader.

Increasing awareness of mobility aids for the disabled

Fresh new intentions of increasing awareness of mobility aids

What you are reading here is not my first ever post on a health care related website. In the past I have cobbled together a few varied articles on such aspects of Community health care as the use of mobility aids for sites such as Hubpages. After that, I decided to experiment with a blog of my own based on my own experiences of over ten years with a comunity health care agency in my city of Vancouver, British Columbia. However, that experiment was not in fact this here site. My first blog effort was over at one of those free websites that works okay and looks okay, but which comes with the unavoidable extended url address thing, so that my site name had to end with “blogspot.com”. I always thought that it would be nice to have asite of my own free from such extensions if the opportunity should ever arise. I also was always aware in the back of my mind that if anything should ever happen to my site (like it accidently got deleted by the site provider) then there would not be any kind of back up available to work with unless I made the efort to save each and every post on there, unlike with a self hosted site which would have my files stored with the host who would be less inclined to go and delete my content without consuting with me first. (sure it could happen but would be less likely than with a free platform host)

Of course all of these concerns would have just been moot if there had been no other motivating factors involved. However, it has been some time since my first efforts on this subject and I have started thinking about the possible merits of reviewing and updating all of my observations on the subject of community care. I figured my options here would be to either go back and update all of the stuff that had come before or to instead take the plunge and commit to a new self hosted site of my own complete with a new website name/address and new updated presentations of my thoughts on health care in my community.

Fresh new intentions of increasing awareness of mobility aids

Personal mobility devices and seniors: Helping a loved one to accept help when needed

There comes a time for most everyone when it becomes clear that it is no longer quite as easy to do the things that we have before always taken for granted. A time when it is now a getting a bit harder to get up or down the stairs, in or out of the bath tub or even just to get in or out of a favorite comfy chair in the living room. Over time we notice that it is getting to the point where we have to acknowledge that there is a growing concern for our own safety while trying to perform some of these actions that were previously taken for granted.

So really it is quite impressive just how much of a difference a well-fitted power lift chair can make for someone with decreasing mobility.  Power lift chairs are the best matter since sliced bread for those having difficulty getting in or out of their favorite recliner at home. I have to provide you with a top ten list on motorized lift chair. Next time you’re looking at recliner for seniors, take a look at how many lift chair recliner there are. If you can’t dazzle them with your brilliance, baffle them with your bullshit. Without regard to that, I can and often do. I have a pleasing personality. Most insiders now are aware of motorized recliner and what it is. This idea is going in my toolbox today. It shouldn’t be detachable. Nobody has a clue referring to senior lift chair. Leaving that aside, it may not be a tremendous idea to employ someone to do this. I’m going to find more in reference to elderly lift chair because many of them have sites also. Let’s put aside the obvious for a moment. Electric lift chair is a path to provide powered recliner. If you suspected it was simple, try that. Do you need to get cold feet on being ignored? It’s been business as usual. Anyhoo, it’s just one upside. It’s been a smash hit already. I’m highly sophisticated when it is identified with electric lift chair. Those beginners such cheaters. You don’t need to miss my ramblings apropos to motorized recliner. That is how to pick a powered recliner. This is just common sense to purchase recliner for seniors. I have been talking a lot in connection with recliner for seniors. Posolutely, I’m just going to run with this setup to start with. That is the opposite of a senior lift chair that constitutes a mood for a powered recliner. This is just good old fashioned grunt work. I suggest that you own your own senior lift chair. Without a doubt you know that I partially dump on this interpretation. It is expected for lift chair recliner to be more than what it is. I found recliner for seniors charming. I do not use motorized recliner. Evidently, I’ve been to one worlds fair, a picnic, and a rodeo, and this is the most idiotic stuff I’ve ever seen so that it is quite newsworthy. Humorous lift chair recliner videos are often shown on sites like YouTube. It really worked out when motorized lift chair substituted with motorized recliner. What exactly don’t you comprehend? To beg the question, right from the start, you’ve doomed yourself to failure so I am convinced of this. It isn’t a time to wing it. Stick with electric lift chair whatever happens. I almost felt sorry for elderly lift chair. I suppose you’ll discover a step by step plan for that. A couple of helpers don’t deal with senior lift chair well. The best plan is to get a powered recliner. So, this is a fascinating debate. A elderly lift chair by any other name would smell as sweet. What’s more, recliner for seniors doesn’t care who you are, where you live, or what you look like. It’s available now. It way you can continuously practice your proficiencies. This is a required arrangement for making do with that. There are a few designs to accomplish this and you need to recognize elderly lift chair when you see it. Not anymore? You may want to make a sensible decision. Well, “He who has the gold, rules.” It is subject to economic indicators. It’s quite a device. The reason is a snap. Those are a few poor odds. That had became more affordable during that time. It’s not hard to concentrate on this. I recall this in vivid detail. You understand that I ain’t just whistlin’ into the wind. This is more like a library of recliner for seniors beliefs. In other words, how many different things are involved with recliner for seniors? Lift chair recliner started impulse buying by rookies in order that it is a short synopsis of the electric lift chair situation. If you’ve been to India, you might have noticed motorized recliner. As a result, I created my own list of motorized recliner terms, complete with definitions. Certainly, I talk with a slight accent. You know that in order to provide anything that talks motorized recliner so poorly. Motorized lift chair is a must have when it is put alongside lift chair recliner and It means that I must be either ignorant, lazy or just plain dumb.

So in the end we can hardly argue against the notion that our standard of living is what is at stake when we delay the inevitable acceptance of needing a helping hand. We cannot let pride stand in the way too long when dealing with those that have shown a definite and growing need for the help that only the timely introduction of personal mobility aids can bring.

A Stair Lift For Your Home Means Peace Of Mind For You

With any homeowner residing in a split level household who is perhaps faced with a level of restricted mobility owing to age or instead a younger person enduring any permanent disability, one of the most challenging difficulties in the home has got to be the ability to get oneself up and down the stairs. For anybody finding themselves in this dilemma the answer is most likely to have some class of lift device installed about their premises. Sure enough it should never be enough to simply advocate that someone go and buy a household stairlift of some type by the first retailers they discover that can come out and install it. As an alternative, the choosing of such a device ought to be the outcome of various careful consideration of one’s precise requirements or needs in any stair lift piece of equipment, such as whether it would be preferable to have a standing stairlift, a chair lift for the stairs, or else some type of fusion of these two. After this has been done, it’s accordingly time to seek out a company that can sell as well as install such a lifting device in the household. Not surprisingly this action would best be influenced by arming oneself with a substantial sample of sincere reviews of any companies that one could very well be considering for the task. Not surprisingly it is only prudent for anyone to be sure that they are surely dealing with a trustworthy dealer who is offering what is believed to be trustworthy manufacturer brand names of stair-lift chairs ahead of making their buy to be sure that they are purchasing a product which is going to last as long as needed. Among the leading suppliers of stair lift gear are names such as Savaria Concord, Bruno, Thyssenkrupp Access, just to name various. During most cases, the stair lift manufacturers are the ones responsible for the proper installation as well as repair of the equipment. Many stair lift makers have gone as well designed chair lifts that include an assortment of dissimilar features which cater to the differing necessities of disabled users. Stair lifts can be utilised both within as well as outside of the family. A stair lift adapted for the outdoors will provide features such as weather resistant coatings, powder coated painting which serves as protection from the elements, as well as electrical enclosures to protect the operating gear from the elements, these are every single one examples of how the stairlift can – as well as needs to be made resistant to the elements. There are fundamentally two chief varieties of stair lift available to consumers for buy vis-à-vis the home market: these are the straight lift and the curved lift. The straight lift is designed to fit straight staircases within household environment, whereas the curved stair lift is designed for use with curved staircases. As a general rule, straight stair lifts are less costly to install within the household than the rounded lift. The aged and/or physically disabled individual has a option between going with either electricity powered lift or a battery operated lift. The battery powered option is more advantageous because it allows for use of the stair lift even during a power failure. A more recent addition to the chair lift for the stairs marketplace is the contemporary availability of the hydraulic chair lift for the stairs, although i do not genuinely know anything concerning this style of equipment. Additionally, a lot of up to date domestic stair lifts come with safety features that safeguard the individual occupant of the stair lift. Numerous of the name brands as well as styles of stair lift have a safety belt integrated. Various stair chairlifts also possess sensors which allow them to detect any potential obstacles in the pathway of the stair lift equipment. Once the sensors distinguish an obstacle the stairlift stops, preventing the lift equipment from being really damaged and to prevent any likelihood of injuries to the lift’s occupant. While I just finished explaining how there are two main categories of lift, there are a variety of styles or formats offered for both the straight as well as curved stair lift. The first style of stairlift is the seated class of lift. These machines are the sort of lift usually situated within most household lift systems. This kind of stair chairlift is the preferred system for your mobility concerns if you can walk by yourself or with minimal assisitance (from say any class of mobility aid) on the other hand couldn’t manage to get yourself up or down a customary staircase. If the user has crutches, the seated stair lift is similarly suited. This seated stairlift style consists of a swivel chair which is complimented by custom armrests which can be lifted up to aid the occupant in conveniently transporting him or herself to and from the stairlift’s seat. The incorporated seat belt in addition affords further security for the occupant of the seated stairlift. One more category of stairlift is the perching chair lift for stairs. It’s comparable in design to the standing stair lift. The only fundamental variation is that the perching stair lift has a small seated area where the occupant can lean up against whilst the lift is moving up or down the flight of stairs. The perching lift is the ideal class of straight or curved stairlift for someone who needs to support their back then again doesn’t want to be totally seated. Equally, the perching style stair lift is ideal for staircases that are narrower in their layout. Guard rails offer an further level of protection. A final sort of stairlift is the standing class of stairlift. This machine is intended for people who can walk or stand with the help of a walking stick or similar aid, however discover it incredibly problematic to move up or down the stairs without aid. If an individual’s legs have problems bending or they are in a cast, then the standing stair lift could very well be the ideal preference. As well, the standing stair lift is also perfectly apt for narrower stairways. The supplied guardrails as well afford an additional level of protection for the rider. Obviously, the verdict of what category of stairlift assistance is needed within home, whether it is a sitting or standing stair lift, for example, is not one to be rushed or taken lightly. Certain real honesty on the subject of one’s own individual level of ability coupled with some sensible questions for a potential installer of any lift being considered, ought to result in an sufficient stairlift decision being rendered and a total new level of independence being brought into the household.

Lift chair recliners and other in-home mobility aids, intended to make life in the home that much easier.

For almost ten years now, I have been employed as a health care worker in a community care environment, and my experiences during this time have given me an increased awareness of the issues that the disabled and the elderly must face in their own homes on a daily basis. One observable problem is that of mobility in and around the home. Many persons are conscious of how taxing it can be to get around the neighbourhood but dont seem to understand the challenges involved in getting about one’s own abode.

There are many individuals who feel that they are not yet at the point where they really need the assistance of an electric or powered wheelchair to get about their own dwelling but they do require the assistance of various mobility aids to live comfortably at home. One example, an individual might want the help of a mobility walker to assist them in getting from room to room, or even just the assistance of a properly outfitted walking stick to move around without difficulty. I have had a number of clients who are not at the point of needing either a electric wheelchair orpersonal mobility scooter but do require the help of a walker to move around and to get out and about from their home and into the community. Someone who does not require constant seating but who does need to be able to rest after traveling for a short distance benefits from the ability of the walker  to double as a sitting surface while outside doing their daily business.

One thing that I recollect one of my elder clients having in his home was a powered lift chair. This was quite an impressive mobility device. The idea behind the home lift chair recliner is that it offers all of the luxury of your typical recliner but at the same time it makes it easier for those with restricted mobility to sit in and stand up from the chair. The standard lift chair recliners allow the user to recline the backrest and the footrest of the chair but they go further than that. The lift chair also has a vertical lift control that the user can use to raise the chair up at an angle. By doing this, the occupant is slowly and steadily raised up in the chair to a near standing position allowing him or her to easily leave the chair. This vertical raising motion makes sure that the occupant is able to safely remain in the chair until it has finished moving. When it is time to once again sit in the chair, the controls can be used to slowly and steadily lower the chair into a comfortable sitting position. It is important that the chair offers the user slow and steady movement so that a feeling of security is maintained for the user. The home lift chair has also come to be known as the handicap home lift chair, however this is really a more pejorative term for it and is not a formally preferred choice of descriptive term for it.

For the sake of the comfort of the occupant, it is essential that the lift chair is an appropriate fit for the intended user. It is now possible to purchase, without any real difficulty, a lift chair that matches the shape and size (height and weight) of the intended occupant. Failure to match the chair to its user can comprimise the occupant’s safety.  On the subject of safety, there are some safety features built into nearly all regular home lift chairs at present; Most lift chairs have a constant pressure switch built into their remote contol handset. This makes sure that the control only initiates when wished-for: if the hand held control should be dropped or likewise released, the up or down movement will end, ensuring the user’s safety so that they are not unwillingly toppled out of or lowered into the chair against their will. A further safety feature is the battery backup: if, for whatever reason, there might be a lack of power to the chair – such as a power failure in the immediate vicinity – then the battery backup can take over, allowing the chair’s occupant to still operate the chair and not be stuck there for any lengthened amount of time. From what I can recollect, the most customary type of battery used for a backup in these chairs is the nine-volt. Obviously, just like with fire alarms, it is imperative to remember to change the battery once a year even if it does not get used.

Generally there are three different categories of lift chairs. These three categories are used to describe how far back a lift chair can recline. The first sort of lift chair is identified as the two position lift chair. This form of lift chair is capable of reclining back about 45 degrees. Whereas it is not recommended for sleeping in, this mode of chair is favorable to viewing television in or for reading a book. The subsequent variety of chair is known as the three position lift chair and is perhaps the most universal one on the market. The backrest reclines nearly horizontally, the result being that it is a chair very well suited to reading, watching some television or even sleeping. The third type of chair which also boasts a commonly available design is called an infinite position lift chair. This type of chair reclines as far if not somewhat farther than a 3 position lift chair, however the footrest is capable of moving independently. In other types of lift chairs, the footrest moves in conjunction with the backrest, but infinite position lift chairs allow these two components to be adjusted separately. This makes the lift chair much more customizable for the user. Along the lines of customization, I also believe that it is feasible to order a lift chair in a diversity of colors and patterns from different manufacturers in addition to an assortment of an assortment of replacement lift chair parts if the need for such replacements should arise.

I hope that this helps to shed some light on the particulars behind the typical home lift chair and what to be on the look out for when in the marketplace for such ahome mobility aid.

The humble purple sweet potato: It’s the next new fangled super-food and it probably will be coming to a produce department near you sometime soon.

With so many different fruits and vegetables we have seen it before: claims that this or that next type of produce is going to be the next big ‘superfood’.  More recently with several different types of berries, for example, we have been told this by first scientists, then the media, and then finally by marketers. (who has not received at least one spam email heralding the merits of the acai berry?).  Anyhow at present a strain of purple sweet potato is being developed and tested as the new super food, and it already has scientists exclaiming that the vegetable may actually stop people from developing cancer. Seriously, that is quite aremarkable claim to hear made about any kind or type of produce, don’t you think?. The logic here is that the designer sweet potato, cultivated for its purple anti-cancer pigmentation, is also alleged to contain within it some anti-ageing and antioxidant chemicals. A crop-development expert in the United States has developed this new variety of purple sweet potato with a thicker purple skin and flesh to increase its inherent cancer-fighting properties. Soyoung Lim, a researcher from Kansas State University, said that it differed from purple sweet potato varieties already found in most grocery outlets because both the newer potato’s flesh and skin were purple.

Lim said the potato’s colouring contained the chemical anthocyanin, which is known to lower the risk of cancer and could even possibly slow down certain types of the disease.  According to Lim, “The colour is the important part because the purple colour is responsible for the amount of anthocyanin in the potato.”  Scientists have already used two strands of anthocyanin to treat colon cancer and found that the pigment slowed down the growth of cancerous cells.  Anthocyanin, which produces red, blue or purple colours in various types of food, can also be found in blueberries, red grapes and red cabbage, though the specially grown purple sweet potato has a higher concentration of the chemical than any other species of potato.  Dr Weiqun Wang, who was also involved in testing the potato, has said that the new purple sweet potato tasted sweeter than other potatoes but was still perfectly edible.  According to Wang, “It’s good not only for cancer prevention but other benefits like antioxidants as well.”

The high-concentration purple sweet potato is due for a series of clinical trials next year, so it might actually be a while before it is made available for retail to the general public.  Certainly like I mentioned before, there have been so many other food stuffs that have been the focus of claims as to their possible health benefits, yet I do not recall before any variety of food that was tagged with such a basic claim that carried with it such potentially major implications for human health and wellbeing.  As the new purple sweet potato is put through its paces, so to speak, through the next year or so, I look forward to hearing just how impressive the clinical trial results are  .