“Think about your future. Maintain your brain today” heads the section at the Alzheimer’s Association web site regarding brain health. This topic has been featured on a number of national and science sites recently…essentially “use your brain or lose it.”
I wrote about this in a previous blog, “Continuing to Learn May Slow Down Alzheimer’s,” and found caregivers and those who want to ward off possibilities of developing this disease responded.
At the Alzheimer’s Association’s page on maintaining brain health, you’ll find information about ways to remain physically, socially, and mentally active, as well as eating a healthy diet. There are some factors we can’t control (particularly heredity or genetics and aging). However, many people are interested in trying to remain as healthy as possible…mentally, emotionally and physically…if there is a possibility this might help prevent or slow down the development of Alzheimer’s.
Also, as Kristen King, of Lively Women, remarked about my previous post. “And even if it [being mentally active] turns out not to help slow the progression or development of Alzheimer’s, it still will make for a richer life, so there’s nothing to lose!”
