According to a recent study by neuro-psychologist, Dr. Paul Nussbaum of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, the best time to fight dementia is to begin in your 20's, 30's and 40's.
Following are some quite interesting tips:
1. Use your non-dominant hand to write often. This helps to excercise your opposite side of the brain and activate your neurons.
2. Get you groove on. Dance - Dance - Dance. Dancing is apparently the only physical acitivity that decreases the incidence of dementia.
3. Excercise your green thumb and garden. Gardeners use the visual and spatial resoning to garden, this excercises the brain.
4. Get some yarn and make something creative. Knitting requires use of both sides of the brain.
5. Get your board games on. Great use of your brain and it's a socializing activity.
6. Inspire your musical genious by learning to play an instrument. This develops a dormant part of your brain.
7. My favorite thing to do: Explore the world. Traveling forces your brain to expand by navigating a new and complex environment.
*** In other words..don't spend most of your time engaged in passive brain activity. (i.e. Watching television, playing video games) Excercise your brain.
(The article was inspired by an article written by Orlando Sentinal for AM NY)
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