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Beat Alzheimer’s with Brain Training.

Here’s the best news for Baby Boomers this year!enjoy-life-without-alzheimer's

Latest US Study Finds Brain Training Linked to Decreased Risk of Alzheimer’s.

It’s a huge, 800 page study prepared for an NIH State-of-the-Science Conference “Preventing Alzheimer’s Disease and Cognitive Decline:, but its findings are music to the ears of everyone over 50 who wants to keep a sharp, alert brain for the rest of their life. And who doesn’t!

Scientists, as you know, are very cautious about making promises but this is what they said:

“Of all the factors reviewed, including diet and dietary supplements, physical exercise, social engagement, and other leisure activities, only cognitive training was found to have a high level of evidence for being associated with a decreased risk of cognitive decline.”

This is fantastic news for Baby Boomers!

It means you don’t have to accept memory loss as a part of getting older.

You can do something about it!

‘Cognitive’ means brain and memory activities.

So, what the scientists are saying is this.

Although eating brain food, physical fitness and social activity are all really important,

‘only cognitive training was said to have a “high degree of evidence” in this report’.

These new scientific findings are of critical importance.

At 50+, you are confidently expecting to live a full and positive life, with plenty of time to enjoy the leisure activities you’ve promised yourself and your family during your busy earning years. You are entitled to those years – but more and more of us are being robbed of them through memory loss and Alzheimer’s.

But you can do something about that. Start today.

Sign up now for our FREE six-day Brain Tune course.

It will set you on the right path to brain fitness.

For further information, read lots of articles on this site, including  Nine Secrets of a Sharp Brain After 55 and Keep that Boomer Brain Growing

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This article was reproduced with permission of its author Gillian Eadie, founder of the Brain and Memory Foundation. Gillian is an award-winning educator with more than 20 years as a principal at several prestigious private schools and is a Churchill Fellow. For more free help and personal advice on Alzheimer’s disease, dementia and improving your memory, please visit the Brain and Memory Foundation.

It’s On The Tip Of My Tongue.

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What was that word again?

A family meal was in progress and there was lively discussion about the latest neighborhood scandal. Forty-something, Ben J. had taken off with the 18 year-old babysitter. Hilarity prevailed as one after the other of us imagined what might become of the odd couple. Let’s face it, Ben wasn’t exactly slim! Then, because actually nor were most of us, a quotation from the Scottish poet, Robert Burns, started tugging at my brain. Something to do with being able to see ourselves as others see us. I knew it real well … how did it begin?
It was on the tip of my tongue. Do you know, try as I might, I couldn’t remember how that quotation began.

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New Brain Science Shows Taxi Drivers Have Bigger Brains.

Well, this fact a bit of a shock but it is great news for baby boomers. I guess you are wondering if I think you all want to be taxi-drivers but, no, that isn’t it. The really interesting thing about the brains of taxi drivers in a London study, was that the more they needed to learn about the streets and landmarks of London, the larger that area of their brain grew to accommodate all the new learning. Read more…

Why Should Baby Boomers Be Worried? Memory Loss is Number one Fear.

In 2009, the oldest of the baby boomers, the generation born between 1946 and 1964, turned 63 years old. So what’s ahead for boomers?

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Confident and independent lifestyles.

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Keep That Boomer Brain Growing.

coloured-brain-imageIt seems a long time since I was in grade school but I can remember having a science class where the teacher handed round a model of a human brain. It looked kind of creepy and I wasn’t keen to touch it. But I can still hear him talking about how we, at about eleven, had all the brain cells we’d ever have in our lives. Not only that but we’d lose about 10,000 of them every day. I had visions of me losing cells all over the classroom and my house! Read more…