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Friday, January 23, 2009

Be sociable to combat Alzheimers disease

A study was done in Sweden suggesting that people who are worriers, and rather neurotic are more likely to develop dementia that people who are calm, IF the worriers also have an isolated, socially inactive lifestyle.

The good news is that the people participating in the study who were "neurotic" --that is, inclined to worry, and to be less sociable, did not develop Alzheimer's Disease if they kept active, and had other pursuits and interests. To read the article for yourself, click on:


http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/23/health/23dementia.html?_r=1&emc=eta1

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