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Best Vitamins to Reduce Dementia Risk

Sunday, August 22, 2010

A pair of new studies help to explain the role that vitamins D and E play in the onset of cognitive decline… even Alzheimer’s disease. And while experts caution that it’s too early to make any recommendations for what to eat or what supplement to take to cut the dementia risk of [...]

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Excess Belly Fat Increases Dementia Risk

Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Use whatever name you like… abdominal fat… a spare tire… love handles… muffin top… a new study out of the Boston University School of Medicine that appears online in the Annals of Neurology has found that excess belly fat may actually cause your brain to shrink and increase your dementia risk.
We already know [...]

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Battle Senior Moments With Blueberries

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Want to do something to help a flagging memory?
Try a glass of blueberry juice and you’ll be giving your brain a boost says a new study in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry.
According to the groundbreaking research, a daily drink of wild blueberry juice improved the memory of older subjects who were known to [...]

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Weaker Muscles Linked To Alzheimer’s Risk

Wednesday, January 13, 2010

New research in the November 2009 issue of Archives of Neurology finds that older folks with weak muscles might be at an increased for of Alzheimer’s disease.
A team from Rush University Medical Center in Chicago followed nearly 1,000 older adults of an average age of 80 who were without dementia at the start of the [...]

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