| While it is not yet clear if Alzheimer's
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| | States, 5 percent of all persons over the
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| can be prevented, there is increasing
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| | age of sixty-five have the disease, while
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| evidence that you can take specific steps
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| | in China and Nigeria, where the fat
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| to help reduce your risk of getting
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| | intake is much lower, the incidence is
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| Alzheimer's disease.
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| | only 1 percent. Japanese who move to
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| Head First
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| | America and double the amount of fat in
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| Good health starts with your brain. It's
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| | their diet have twice the incidence of
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| one of the body's most vital organs and
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| | Alzheimer's than do those who do not
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| it needs care and maintenance.
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| | emigrate and presumably maintain their
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| Ongoing mental and physical exercise
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| | old eating habits.
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| Exercise keeps the brain healthy. Either
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| | Nicotine
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| use it or lose it. Regular physical
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| | Nicotine is a prime example of how new
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| activity increases the blood flow to the
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| | research data can supersede and negate
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| brain and provides the nutrients
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| | previously acquired information. We used
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| necessary to render its tissues resistant
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| | to believe that smokers were less likely
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| to Alzheimer's. Exercise also increases
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| | than non-smokers to develop Alzheimer's.
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| the number of connections among the
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| | But the anti-tobacco community is now
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| millions of brain cells needed for normal
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| | breathing easier because more recent
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| mental function. Get into the habit of
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| | studies indicate that smoking doubles the
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| walking for thirty or sixty minutes a day
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| | risk of getting Alzheimer's.
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| as briskly as possible. Stair climbing is
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| | Vitamin E
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| particularly effective, so take the steps
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| | Hardly a day does by without some
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| when going up or down one or two flights
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| | favorable report about vitamin E. I can't
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| and leave the elevators and escalators to
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| | think of any downside of this vitamin,
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| the kids.
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| | with the possible exception of its
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| Education
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| | raising blood pressure and causing some
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| Several population studies have shown
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| | extra beats in some people. Vitamin E
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| that the more schooling you have, the
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| | increases fertility in rats; it's good
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| greater are your chances against
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| | for the heart; and many doctors prescribe
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| Alzheimer's. That may be because the
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| | it for the treatment of vascular disease,
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| educated are more likely to eat more
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| | particularly for narrowing the arteries
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| nutritiously and receive better medical
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| | in the legs. Now comes word that vitamin
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| care throughout their lives. However,
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| | E may also delay the onset of
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| like physical exercise, ongoing
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| | Alzheimer's, presumably by virtue of its
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| intellectual challenges stimulate the
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| | antioxidant properties. Antioxidants, of
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| formation of nerve connections. Even if
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| | which there are many, are said to
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| you are destined to develop Alzheimer's,
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| | neutralize the harmful effects of free
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| the more neutrons you develop when you
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| | radicals, the byproducts of bodily
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| are young, the more you can afford to
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| | process that involve oxygen. These
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| lose before symptoms set in.
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| | radicals carry an extra electron that can
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| Many retired seniors sign up for classes
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| | damage the protein in the brain and other
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| in accounting, law, art, music,
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| | organs and accelerate the aging process.
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| economics, or whatever else interests
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| | The body's own antioxidant normally
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| them to stay mentally active, and not
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| | neutralizes these free radicals, but this
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| necessarily to start a second career. The
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| | defense can be enhanced by supplemental
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| longer you continue your education at any
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| | vitamin E.
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| age, or keep your mind busy in some other
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| | Hold off on heavy metals
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| way, the more likely your neurons are to
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| | Heavy metals such as mercury and lead are
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| connect with each other later on.
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| | known to cause brain injury that may not
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| Reduce stress
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| | be reversible. Sources of heavy metals
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| Chronic stress (as well as anxiety and
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| | include large fish (such as swordfish,
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| depression) raises your body's production
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| | tuna steaks, tilefish, king mackerel,
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| of the adrenal hormone cortisol. High
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| | shark, halibut and mahi-mahi), which are
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| levels of cortisol have been shown to
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| | high in mercury and "silver" dental
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| lead to memory impairment and atrophy of
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| | fillings. Lead exposure may occur from
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| memory centers in the brain. Stress
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| | old paint and some calcium supplements,
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| reduction techniques such as exercise,
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| | which have recently found to be
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| meditation, yoga, Tai Chi and biofeedback
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| | contaminated with lead.
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| may help to combat chronic stress,
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| | Along the way, neurologists have
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| anxiety and depression.
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| | discovered that the brain is much more
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| Diet
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| | adaptable as it ages than they realized.
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| Eat as little animal fat as possible to
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| | They have determined that the so-called
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| reduce your vulnerability to Alzheimer's.
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| | plasticity of the brain, which allows the
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| The incidence of Alzheimer's in different
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| | formation of new neurons as well as new
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| countries correlates with the consumption
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| | connections between those neurons, can
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| of total fat. Fro example, in the United
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| | last a lifetime.
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