Better Brain For Life

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In A Better Brain for Life, Angela Caughey draws on research to show what can be done to foster a healthy brain, ward off many common chronic diseases, and prevent, or at least slow down, the brain's decline. By practising healthy ways of living from early childhood onwards, we can significantly reduce the risk of dementia and chronic disease in later life. As it turns out, doing many of the things we know prevent other chronic diseases are also critical for preventing dementia. Much can be achieved by optimising the key modifiable lifestyle factors of diet, exercise, mental stimulation, social connections, stress reduction and sleep. This book asks you to examine the way you live from day to day, and it has a clear message: we all can, and should, take practical steps to benefit our long-term health.

Angela began writing in the mid-1980s, and she is the author of six previous books. For more than 12 years she took care of her husband, who had dementia. Following on the international success of Dealing Daily with Dementia, and How to Communicate with Someone Who Has Dementia, she here turns her focus to the wider questions of the brain's development.

The prospect of getting dementia is very scary for most people. Books like this, which translate technical complexities of things people care about into accessible explanations and stories, become our gems of greater understanding.--Boyd Swinburn, Professor of Population Nutrition and Global Health, University of Auckland, Chair of Health Coalition Aotearoa