{"id":146671,"date":"2022-09-19T13:02:45","date_gmt":"2022-09-19T18:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/new-study-reveals-3-activities-that-can-lower-your-risk-of-dementia"},"modified":"2022-09-19T13:02:45","modified_gmt":"2022-09-19T18:02:45","slug":"new-study-reveals-3-activities-that-can-lower-your-risk-of-dementia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/new-study-reveals-3-activities-that-can-lower-your-risk-of-dementia","title":{"rendered":"New Study Reveals 3 Activities That Can Lower Your Risk of Dementia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-study-reveals-3-activities-that-can-lower-your-risk-of-dementia.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new study recently published in <em>Neurology<\/em>, the medical journal of the <a href=https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/tag\/american-academy-of-neurology\/>American Academy of Neurology<\/a>, suggests that physical and mental activities, such as doing chores around the home, exercising, and visiting family and friends, may help reduce the risk of dementia. The research examined how these activities, together with mental activities and the use of electronic devices, affected individuals with and without increased hereditary risk for dementia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany studies have identified potential risk factors for dementia, but we wanted to know more about a wide variety of lifestyle habits and their potential role in the prevention of dementia,\u201d said study author Huan Song, MD, Ph.D., of Sichuan University in Chengdu, China. \u201cOur study found that exercise, household chores, and social visits were linked to a reduced risk of various types of dementia.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The study involved 501,376 people from a UK database without dementia. The participants had an average age of 36.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study recently published in Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology, suggests that physical and mental activities, such as doing chores around the home, exercising, and visiting family and friends, may help reduce the risk of dementia. The research examined how these activities, together with mental activities and the use [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}