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Mediterranean Diet Slows Mental Decline; Exercise Helps, Too


(August 18, 2009)  

In a 2006 study, Columbia University Medical Center researcher Nikolaos Scarmeas, MD, and colleagues showed that elderly New Yorkers whose eating habits... And in an update on their earlier study, Scarmeas and colleagues report that among the 1,880 mixed race/ethnicity Americans in their ongoing study, those who get the most physical activity get the least Alzheimer''s disease.

  

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