Did you know you can reduce your risk of Alzheimer’s Disease by making lifestyle modifications? Eating a well-balanced diet and regular physical activity may lower risk by 60%! Numerous risk factors have been associated with Alzheimer’s disease and dementia. Unfortunately, some risk factors, such as age and gender, you cannot control. However, there are…
Dietary Choline Associated with Reduced Risk of Dementia
Dementia is a generalized term for memory loss and decline in other cognitive abilities affecting one’s life. Alzheimer’s disease is a degenerative brain disease and the most common form of dementia. Together, they affect more than 50 million people worldwide and it is expected to increase in the future. There has been a recent push…
Are Your Lifestyle Choices Are Affecting Your Memory?
Researchers have discovered that lifestyle and poor health choices early in life not only affect memory later in life, but also affect memory among younger adults as well. A new study conducted by UCLA has shown that if you are depressed, don’t get enough exercise, or have high blood pressure, you may notice that…
Fall 2010: To Your Health
In this Issue: Can Certain Foods Help You Age Gracefully? • A New Option to Ease the Transition to Whole Grains • Four Ways to Lower Your Risk of Breast Cancer • Managing the Halloween Candy…and Your Diabetes! • Diet and Other Lifestyle Factors Linked to the Prevention of Dementia • Food of the Month: Pomegranate • Recipe of the Month: Pomegranate-Orange Glazed Turkey
