Following a Mediterranean diet benefits your heart and your brain. Eating a diet rich in whole grains, unsaturated fats, fruits and vegetables, but low in dairy products and red meat may help lower the risk for brain infarcts. Brain infarcts are small areas of dead tissue that result when blood flow to the brain is slowed or completely blocked by a clot. This type of small stroke can go unnoticed except when detected by a MRI scan.
Though I don't believe in labeling people, there is a need to teach others how to handle brain disfunction, impaired abilities due to aging. This article is a very good summarization to serve as guidance. There are social implications not mentioned here, but the ideas expressed by the author, at the very least, serve as a good foundation to generate purposeful dialogue among families and in open public forums.
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Though I don't believe in labeling people, there is a need to teach others how to handle brain disfunction, impaired abilities due to aging. This article is a very good summarization to serve as guidance. There are social implications not mentioned here, but the ideas expressed by the author, at the very least, serve as a good foundation to generate purposeful dialogue among families and in open public forums.
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