You Don't Have to Lose Your Mind
The good news is that many of the healthy practices we adopt to improve our chances against cancer, heart disease, and diabetes also serve to protect us against Alzheimer's. Hooray.
100 Simple Things You Can Do to Prevent Alzheimer's and Age-Related Memory Loss
is a new book by Jean Carper, a medical journalist with a genetic predisposition to Alzheimer's. She wants to prevent, or postpone as long as possible, the onset of this devastating condition. Olive oil, cocoa, vitamins, mental stimulation, exercise--they all help. I'm going to be spending a few more minutes every morning on exercises. I'll try to eat less cheese and more almonds.
The last chapter puts it all together into an action plan: mental activity, physical activity, healthy eating, and taking good care of your whole body.
Alzheimer's does not run in my family, but it does in Tim's. My goal is to keep us both thinking clearly for the rest of our lives.
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