Archives: March 2015

Vibrating Insoles Could Improve Walking Gait

Vibrating Insoles Could Improve Walking Gait When researchers put a urethane foam insole with piezo-electric actuators delivering subsensory vibratory noise stimulation to the soles of the feet of 12 healthy community-dwelling elderly volunteers aged 65 ‰ÛÒ 90 years, the vibratory insoles significantly improved performance on measures of balance and gait...

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Alcohol, Chocolate Could Prevent Memory Loss, Dementia!

Alcohol, Chocolate Could Prevent Memory Loss, Dementia! Alcohol and chocolate may help prevent memory loss, dementia two research show. Researchers find that drinking a moderate amount of alcohol might preserve cognitive functioning, while a natural compound in cocoa can reverse age-related memory loss. Findings published in the American Journal of...

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Walnuts May Reducing Risk, Delay Onset or Slow Progression of Alzheimer‰Ûªs

Walnuts May Reducing Risk, Delay Onset or Slow Progression of Alzheimer‰Ûªs A study published in the Journal of Alzheimer‰Ûªs Disease indicates that a diet including walnuts may have a beneficial effect in reducing the risk, delaying the onset, slowing the progression of, or preventing Alzheimer‰Ûªs disease. Research led by Abha...

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Exposure to Aluminum May Contribute to Alzheimer’s

Exposure to Aluminum May Contribute to Alzheimer’s Professor Christopher Exley of Keele University, UK, a world authority on the link between human exposure to aluminum in everyday life and its likely contribution to Alzheimer‰Ûªs disease, says in a new report that it may be inevitable thatåÊaluminum plays some role in...

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More Active = Less Depressed

More Active = Less Depressed Physical activity can reduce the risk of death, stroke and some cancers, and some studies suggest activity can also lower the risk for depressive symptoms. A new study in JAMA looked at the correlation. Snehal M. Pinto Pereira, Ph.D., of the University College London, England,...

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Neurotic Middle-Age Women More Prone to Alzheimer’s

Neurotic Middle-Age Women More Prone to Alzheimer’s The Washington Post reports that middle-aged women who worry a lot may have a higher risk of developing Alzheimer‰Ûªs disease later in life, citing a studyåÊ in the American Academy of Neurology‰Ûªs journal, Neurology. The paper notes that researchers at the University of...

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