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Preventing dementia with computerized brain training

Brain training using a specialized computer program can reduce the risk of dementia by almost one third, a newly published study shows. The participants were involved in the training over a ten-year period. Elderly people...

‘Healthy’ Mediterranean diet nosedives in Italy as modern life takes over

Italians are admired for their healthy Mediterranean diet, but the pressures of modern society mean many are changing their ways. Yet studies show the benefits of eating à la Mediterranean. The Mediterranean diet has for...

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Seeing the eye as a window to disease elsewhere

People with bad vision tend to go to the ophthalmologist, but their actual problems may lie somewhere else. Ophthalmologists are able to recognize other illnesses through the eyes. “You could go to the ophthalmologist and...