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Adding More of These Foods to Your Diet Can Reduce the Risk of Dementia, According to New Research - Eating Well It's no secret that eating veggies is good for your health—a plant-based diet has all kinds of benefits, from protecting your heart to helping reduce your risk for prostate or colon...

This simple at-home test may help detect subtle signs of dementia - Yahoo Though not unusual, a memory that fades with age can be worrisome: while it’s just a normal part of aging for some, for others it may be an early sign of a more serious problem, such as Alzheimer’s disease. A new study...

The #1 Snack to Limit to Reduce Your Risk of Dementia, According to Science - Eating Well You might notice something in common among the items that earned a spot on our list of six foods you should be eating every day for better brain health, according to a dietitian: they're high in...

Magnetic brain stimulation may enhance memory - Medical News Today Aging, dementia, and brain injury can reduce people’s capacity to form new memories of events in their lives, which experts term episodic memory. A study suggests that low-frequency magnetic stimulation of a particular part of...

5 tips for safe and sane travel with someone who has dementia - Yahoo How do you travel with someone who has dementia? No. 1: Learn to count to 10. Slowly. Backward and forward. Several times a day. No. 2: Bring a companion — preferably someone who has Rule No. 1 down pat. No. 3: Keep trips...

The gender of dementia - Aeon Are women really at greater risk from dementia? Until we reckon with social roles and inequalities, it’s impossible to say Auguste Deter died on the 8 April 1906, aged 55, after spending the last years of her life in a psychiatric hospital in Frankfurt, Germany. A...

Physical inactivity could increase your risk of diseases such as dementia - CNN Health Not exercising enough could increase your risk of developing certain diseases by up to 8%, according to a new study. Little to no exercise increases your risk of getting noncommunicable diseases such as...

Dementia in Pets: What You Need to Know - Next Avenue How to recognize it in your beloved four-legged family member, and what can help It is a gift that our companion animals are living longer than at any time in the past, thanks to advances in veterinary medicine, better nutrition and our...

How a Peanut Butter Test May Detect Alzheimer’s - Cleveland Clinic Creamy or crunchy – and oh, so spreadable – peanut butter is not your first thought as a possible game-changer in Alzheimer’s disease research. But it has potential, according to researchers at the University of Florida. They...

Eating the equivalent of an extra fast food burger a day can cause irreversible dementia, study warns - Daily Mail A study has found strong links between fast food and irreversible dementia Professor Nicolas Cherbuin says: 'People are eating away at their brain' The average person today is...

Football, My Dad’s Dementia, and Me - GQ Doctors said we could blame my father’s football career for his vanishing memory. So Dad and I decided to take a road trip down south to revisit the schools that made him. My father asks me to double-check the directions before we get onto the...

Infectious Theory Of Alzheimer's Disease Draws Fresh Interest - NPR Dr. Leslie Norins is willing to hand over $1 million of his own money to anyone who can clarify something: Is Alzheimer's disease, the most common form of dementia worldwide, caused by a germ? By "germ" he means microbes...