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Healthy Living Helps the Aging Brain
There’s no magic cure for dementia yet, but we have plenty of data to show that lifestyle changes can lower the risk.
Figuring out what works.
Photographer: Andriy Onufriyenko/Moment RFA new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association makes a compelling case that a healthy lifestyle does an aging brain good.
That might sound obvious. Eat well, exercise, challenge yourself mentally, have an active social life and you’ll be better off for it. Yet researchers are just starting to offer concrete data to support the theory that making conscientious lifestyle changes can lower the risk of dementia, which is estimated to affect some 6 million Americans.