Good health is the most important foundation for the pursuit of all happiness. And a person's health and longevity, largely depends on their own living habits. Studies have shown that people who live a healthy lifestyle not only live longer and healthier lives, but also protect against Alzheimer's disease! The study found that people 65 and older with healthy lifestyles lived longer than their less healthy peers. The increase in life expectancy was about 3.1 years for women and 5.7 years for men, with a significant reduction in the risk of Alzheimer's disease.
Here are five things you must do to lead a healthy life
1. Exercise is good for the body as well as the brain
More activity in the elderly can not only drive away bad moods, but also enhance the elderly's memory and reduce the incidence of Alzheimer's disease. Endurance exercises such as running, breaststroke and brisk walking are the best for the brain. The old man WHO is not in good physical condition can start from a small movement first, such as finger holding, grasping the ground with the foot, playing tai chi and so on.
2. Brain diet, different groups have key points
The MIND diet is considered to be an effective diet against dementia. It emphasizes the intake of natural plant-based foods and limits the intake of foods high in animal and saturated fats, mainly composed of these healthy foods, namely green leafy vegetables, other vegetables, nuts, berries, legumes, whole grains, fish, poultry, and olive oil. Meanwhile, in terms of brain healthy diet, experts give some suggestions for different people to eat brain healthy diet:
Mental workers: regular and quantitative, staple food every day no less than 4 liang, mental workers every day brain cells consume a lot of energy, must be balanced diet, eat on time, staple food every day no less than 40 liang, so as to ensure the normal brain sugar metabolism, otherwise it is easy to appear poor memory, inattention symptoms.
Overworked: eat more vegetables and fruits, office workers with more brain, work pressure, often easy to get angry, this is because the lack of vitamin B group in the body, so we should add more vegetables and fruits. Every day to ensure at least a fruit, half a catty of vegetables.
Less blood: more animal protein, office worker sitting for a long time, and rarely bask in the sun, exercise less, qi and blood running bad or qi and blood deficiency, often stand some dizzy, sometimes think memory loss, this time should eat more lean meat, fish, eggs, milk and so on, at the same time want to take time out to outdoor exercise.
3. Do cognitive activities
Our brain is like a bank account, and a large part of that "deposit" in that bank account is cognitive reserve. The larger the reserve, the more durable the account, and the later the cognitive crisis will appear. Such as:
Get more education. It's great for slowing down brain aging. Such as visiting museums, reading newspapers, playing sports and so on.
Do more mental work and activities. Even for some simple repetitive work, not only repetition, to explore new methods in the work, more in the work to cultivate the habit of reading and thinking.
Communicate in multiple languages. Multilingualism is a very effective way to increase cognitive reserve. When a person is multilingual, they need to switch different language channels at different times, which gives them a good training in the executive function of their mind.
4. Give up smoking
Vascular dementia is a cognitive impairment caused by cerebrovascular disease that affects the ability of daily living. Poor living habits such as long-term smoking, drinking, staying up late and so on increase the risk of stroke and other brain diseases.
5. Don't drink alcohol
Wine. If you can avoid it, don't. Don't drink too much if you have to. According to experts, if you need to drink alcohol, you should not consume more than 15 grams of alcohol a day. If you want to drink, four "no" word rest assured, do not drink on empty stomach, do not drink quickly, do not drink a lot of alcohol, liver is not good do not drink.
