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Winter Community Meeting
The UCLA Center on Aging
presents:
Lifestyle Choices to Maximize Memory:
Healthy brain diet, stress reduction, and other strategies
Featuring
Gary W. Small, M.D.
Parlow-Solomon Professor on Aging, Director of UCLA Center on Aging, and Author of "The Memory Bible"
Although our inherited genetic make-up does, in part, predict our degree of memory loss as we age, there are several other factors most under our own control that are more important determinants of brain aging. In fact, the latest data estimates that genetics is responsible for only one third of what determines our memory ability and brain health. Our daily experiences, lifestyle choices, and basic overall brain fitness habits dictate the other two-thirds. Recent studies have shown a definite link between sustained mental activity and staving off symptoms of Alzheimer's disease. There are some people who don't need extra mental stimulation; instead, reducing stimulation and minimizing stress is their answer. Chronically high levels of stress are not only bad for blood pressure, cholesterol, and other physical ailments that increase greatly as our bodies age, but high stress levels wear away at brain fitness and overall memory performance. Just as unhealthy diets can lead to physical ailments like heart disease, diabetes, and obesity, those same T-bone steaks and ice cream sundaes can negatively, and sometimes irreversibly affect our brains. Convincing scientific evidence also indicates that long-term, healthy dietary habits may prevent future brain aging and memory decline. By making just a few key lifestyle choices, we can improve our memory performance and stave off, possibly even prevent future memory decline, keeping our brains young and healthy for the rest of our lives.
-Gary W. Small, M.D.
Wednesday, February 12, 2003
2:00 p.m.
Skirball Cultural Center
2701 North Sepulveda Boulevard
Parking
Large Underground Parking available at the north end of the Center off Herscher Way. Parking also available across the street from Skirball Center on Sepulveda.
Members of the Center on Aging at the $100 level or more are admitted free of charge.
UCLA Faculty, staff, and students are admitted free of charge.
$5 per person for all other guests - no refunds.
Seating is limited; please RSVP by February 7, 2003.
For further information, please
e-mail uclacoa@mednet.ucla.edu
or call (310) 794-0679 or (310)794-0680.
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