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Want a healthy brain as you age? Live a healthy life

22/05/2024

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April 17, 2017

ROCHESTER, Minn. — Adopting a healthy lifestyle can protect the brain against several risk factors for Alzheimer’s disease, Mayo Clinic research shows. Controlling blood pressure and cholesterol and avoiding obesity, smoking and diabetes are among the steps that can help preserve brain health, according to the study, published in JAMA Neurology.

Neurologists believe two aspects make up Alzheimer’s disease:

Amyloid deposits: Toxic proteins that build up plaques on the brain.
Neurodegeneration: Loss of structure and function of neurons in the brain.

The Mayo research examined whether the risk factors and protective steps against each

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Decoding keys to a healthy life — Harvard Gazette

22/05/2024

For 74 years, one of the longest-running studies of normal adult development has been examining not disease and illness, but what may be life’s magic question: How can you live long and happily?

The answers that have emerged — and are still emerging — are both surprising and obvious. Having a difficult childhood, for example, matters a lot in early adulthood, but its effects fade as the years go by. Among those who had tough beginnings, self-starters who seek out jobs as kids do better than those who don’t. And education — specifically going to college — is more important

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New era of public health to tackle inequalities and level up the UK

22/05/2024

New bodies will tackle health disparities across the UK which means men in the most deprived areas in England are expected to live almost 10 years fewer than those in the least deprived
Preventing health conditions before they develop will reduce pressure on the health and care system
Chief Medical Officer, Professor Chris Whitty, will provide professional leadership to OHID

Health disparities across the UK will be tackled through a new approach to public health focused on stopping debilitating health conditions before they develop, as the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities (OHID) launches today (Friday 1 October).

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