Cut your Alzheimer’s Risk And..

Often not promoted enough we know that a healthy lifestyle can cut your risk of Alzheimer’s by 50%! Exercising regularly, eating well and not smoking does much to save your brain and memories as well as reducing many other chronic diseases often blamed on getting older. There is now in the UK alone around 820,000 people suffering from dementia with half of these having Alzheimer’s. Exercise promotes circulation to the brain and increases a powerful brain building protein known as BDNF- people often deteriorate quickly both physically and therefore mentally when they stop moving.  You must keep moving to fuel brain development. Reporting in the Lancet the inactive lifestyle was seen as being the most important cause of dementia’s though smoking, obesity, high blood pressure and diabetes also raise the risk.

Inactive couch potato lifestyles are also raising the risk of many cancers by 20% in the middle aged. Some 42% of people in the UK will get cancer at some stage a large increase in recent years being caused by obesity, heavy drinking and general inactivity.

Finally, Britons now take just 39mins a day to eat their food as the pressures of modern life increase. Breakfast is eaten in around 7 mins, lunch in 12 mins and dinner in 19 mins. Food is powerful fuel for our energy levels on many different levels. As psychologist Dr Woolfson notes- ‘It is so important to take the time to taste and appreciate food, as this has an effect on our emotional and physical well being and can affect our productivity.’ Take more time out and get more done!

Kevin, 26 July 2011.