Mental workout vs. AD
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Mental workout vs. AD
By Jeanne Sabatie, Production Editor
Young and middle-age adults who participate in hobbies that exercise their braininstead of being couch potatoesmay be two and a half times less likely to have Alzheimer's. That's the finding of a study in the March 6 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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