Primary Education Topic:
Health & Wellness
Can lifestyle influence our cognition, information processing and emotional well-being? Dr. Paul Nussbaum explore this important question, as nearly 5.2 million Americans suffer from Alzheimer’s disease, the leading cause of dementia.
By Paul D. Nussbaum
We know a healthy lifestyle is beneficial to our overall health and longevity. Recent research reaffirms the basic importance of healthy living, and a 2010 study by Kvaavik et al., published in the Archives of Internal Medicine (14; doi: 10.1001/archinternmed. 2010.76), found that regular physical activity, not smoking, eating a diet filled with fruits and vegetables and mild alcohol intake helped to increase longevity.