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Tag: Alzheimer’s disease

  • Sleeping Pills and Alzheimers

  • Alzeiheimers: Failing Drug Trials

  • Lower Your Alzheimer’s Risk by Moving!!

    New news about Alzheimer's: lowering your risk!!

    cleaning

     

    A new study indicates that normal everyday activity helps reduce the risk of Alzheimer's.

     

    Yes, exercise is good – but so are more of the everyday activities we engage in…

     

    Cleaning house and doing yardwork are taking on new importance. A higher level of physical activity — not just exercising — is linked to a reduced risk of developing Alzheimer's disease even in people over 80, suggests research published Wednesday in the journal Neurology.

    gardening

    I'm sure this is why having a pet keeps people healthy – not only do they have something to care for, they have to feed and walk the dog and feed the cat and change the litter…all require some moving!

     

     

    So get out there and garden, walk, and clean to keep your brain keeping on!!

     

    Thoughts? Comments? Thanks!

  • Puzzles? Reading? Yes – they ARE good for you!

    crossword puzzleKeep reading and doing those puzzles as you get older.

    In fact, if you are younger, and don't do puzzles –  start now and keep doing them … it's good for your brain –

    According to a study:

    Doing puzzles and reading books have been linked with a decreased risk of Alzheimer's disease, and a new study may explain why — it reduces the accumulation of harmful proteins in the brain.

    I've always believed that games play the same role – they keep our brains active. And they provide, what I found, were some therapeutic results for people of many ages.

    pinball machineOf course I do have a bias.

    I am, and have been, a big game player.  I started out with pinball, moved on to amusement park arcades, video games and now computer games.

    Just ask my son who played his video games more – him or me?  :)

    I grew up with crossword puzzles and still do them. And the same with reading. Guess now I am glad I did so much of what others tended to call a "waste of time."

    Do you play games? Do puzzles?

    Have some favorites to share? Thanks……