See Ways to Prevent Dementia

How Eye Exams Keep Your Brain Young

Am I seeing this right? My eye health offers protection against dementia? According to RealAge, people with untreated vision problems were nine (9) times more likely to develop Alzheimer’s disease. That’s because poor vision keeps people from engaging in brain stimulating activities – like reading this blog, playing games, walking and socializing. Talking about walking, read the ‘Walk on the Cerebral Side’ article when you get back from your hike.

Exercise Your Brain with Neurobics

Neurobics works to keep your aging brain fit

Lawrence C. Katz and Manning Rubin offer ‘83 Neurobic Exercises to Health Prevent Memory Loss and Increase Mental Fitness’. Thank you Scribd.com for offering this free e-book packed with practical ideas. Chapters include Starting and Ending the Day… Commuting…At Work… At the Market… At Mealtimes… and At Leisure. Hat’s off to David Suter for his novel illustrations creatively representing this science of brain enhancement.

Aerobics Keeps Your Brain Young

More than Good Nutrition, Education and Positive Thinking

http://www.bioedonline.org/news/news.cfm?art=2005 BioEd Online reports that Aerobic exercise is the best way to keep your memory healthy. According to Jennifer Wild's research report of Ian Robertson research at the University of Dublin, Cardiovascular exercise surpasses stretching for being sharper, with memory and attention improvement. Read this interesting article and see why exercise is sort of a wonder drug in the over 50s age group.

Jeff Haebig

Working Out Improves Sleep Patterns

Wake Up to the Importance of Exercise

Rebecca Pratt, staff writer for http://www.sparkpeople.com/ has written an article pointing out how quality sleep is as important as exercise and good nutrition on your total well-being. Sleep deprivation interferes with your immune system fighting off disease and blood sugar regulation. Good sleep reduces stress and sharpens the brain. Daily exercise greatly improves the quality of sleep.

http://www.sleepfoundation.org/ National Sleep Foundation offers many sleep-related articles free of charge. Hot Topics, Ask the Expert and Library Highlights are featured. Here's to a solid night sleep.


Jeff Haebig