Healthy Living Avoid Brain Illness

A prompt for healthy living while young is not just a figment. By avoiding foods that can trigger a stroke, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, or obesity, or smoking, can prevent you from brain disease in old age.


Rush Memory and Aging Research Project, at Rush University of Medical Center, showed all that trigger the disease are at increased risk of brain illness in old age.

The study, led by Dr Julie A Schneider showed mostly elderly people have brain disease, either visible or not. Of 141 elderly people they studied, only 20 people (14.2%) who were free of brain illness.

Elderly people without mental illness also often have a brain disease. "The disease is most common is Alzheimer, but also many other disorders," said Schneider.

In addition, having more than one disease in the brain greatly increases the likelihood of the emergence of symptoms of mental illness. Prevention, said Schneider, avoid triggers.