A National Institute of Health (NIH) study with 3,000 participants shows that risks of Alzheimer’s disease substantially decrease through a combination of healthy lifestyle behaviors.
Funded by the National Institute on Aging (NIA), which is a part of the NIH, the research defined five healthy behavior factors—physical activity, not smoking, light-to-moderate alcohol consumption, a high-quality diet, and cognitive activities. Those who followed four of these five specified healthy behaviors were observed to have 60 percent lower risks of Alzheimer’s, NIH said in a statement.
