![]() You don’t have to be a boxer to be at risk of serious brain damage. Other than accidents, the major cause of head injury in young people is high risk sports and recreational activities. To maintain mental agility, avoid causing damage to your brain. It should be low in saturated fat, without excess of carbohydrates, and contain adequate amounts of fruits, nuts and vegetables to provide vitamins, minerals and essential fatty acids. Your diet should contain brain-enhancing nutrients. It is then maintained through continued life-long learning and engaging in activities to stimulate the brain to compensate for cell loss and injury. This foundation must be built upon with an up-bringing which promotes intellectual and social development. Like all successful projects, to tap the brain’s full potential, conditions have to right from the moment of conception (choose your parents!), and subsequently nurturing development in the womb and through early childhood. But can we, on our part, do more to enhance this benefit?įor this to be achieved, we look to medical science for answers: a lot of research is in progress with this objective in mind. Severe mental decline, termed dementia, is caused by disease processes: it is not a predestined part of ageing.Ī healthy lifestyle with satisfying work and social engagement goes a long way towards preserving our brain health. Our cognitive function – that is, the ability to remember, learn, think, and reason – can in theory, be preserved right up to advanced old age. Mental decline is therefore not inevitable. The good news is that significant loss of mental ability is no longer considered to be part of normal ageing. What this means is that, each of us, young and old, are required to keep our wits about us and to try and maintain our brain function for as long as possible. It is not possible to survive as a Luddite (defined in MSN Encarta as an opponent of new technology), even in Malaysia. ![]() While the young can rapidly learn to use each new gizmo, the not-so-young labour to master these mysterious technologies, be they automated teller machines, cell phones, digital cameras or remote controls. ![]() Citizens young and old now face a brave new world in which new gadgets seem to be launched every few months (at least it feels like it). There are steps that can be taken to preserve brain health.Ī while back, Malaysia left the ranks of developing countries to join the world community as a Newly Industrialised Country (NIC). ![]() It is by no means a certainty that we lose some of our cognitive abilities as we grow older. ![]()
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