Monday, December 7, 2009

Read the newspaper to prevent Alzheimer's

People? Gees fall by more than 40% risk of developing Alzheimer's by reading the newspaper or playing chess.

Can you reduce their risk of Alzheimer maintaining cognitive activity? In any case that suggests a U.S. study published this week in the journal Neurology. ? When we speak of cognitive activity, said Dr. Robert Wilson of Rush University in Chicago, author of the study, we refer to simple activities like reading a newspaper, play chess or checkers, frequenting bookstores etc..?.

This study was conducted on 775 people? Gees 80 years on average not suffering from any disease-related cognitive decline, such as Alzheimer's disease. Each year for 5 years, participants underwent tests of memory and answered a questionnaire on their cognitive activities past and present.

Results: At the end of the study, 11.6% of patients developed Alzheimer's disease. Compared to people who read little or nothing, who did not play in games, those who are addicted to these activities had Alzheimer's risk 40% lower.
According to Robert Wilson, this risk reduction is attributable to activities of individuals present cognitive? Gees. Those practiced in the past have no influence on the cognitive decline associated

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