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<p style="font-size: 18pt; font-weight:bold; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif';"><a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/even-moderate-activity-could-help-offest-dementia/">Moderate Activity Protects the Mind</a></p> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif';">Posted January 22, 2008 at 12:00 PM by Alexandra M. Haller</p> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif'">New research suggests that a moderate amount of exercise can be just as beneficial as a vigorous workout. What’s interesting in this instance is that your mind might benefit as much as your body. According to a study published in Neurology, moderate physical activity could help protect against a form of dementia in the elderly. For four years, researchers studied the exercise patterns of rural Italians. These 740 Italians were over age 65 and, at the outset of the study, none of them had any difficulties with their memory. By the end of the study, 85 participants showed signs of dementia, both Alzheimer’s and vascular dementia. The researchers of Bologna, Italy’s University Hospital S. Orsola-Malpighi didn’t detect any correlation between exercise and Alzheimer’s disease. However, a striking link between exercise and vascular dementia was observed. This type…<a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/even-moderate-activity-could-help-offest-dementia/">(<a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/even-moderate-activity-could-help-offest-dementia/">Continued...</a>)<br clear="all" /><br> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif'"><a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/even-moderate-activity-could-help-offest-dementia/">Read the full article...</a> | <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/even-moderate-activity-could-help-offest-dementia/">Comment on this post</a></p> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif'">Filed under: <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/her-fitness/">her-fitness</a>, <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/athletics/">athletics</a>, <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/her-health/">her-health</a>, <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/her-news/">her-news</a><br /><br /> </P>