Monthly Archives November 2020

Does Hard Work Help Preserve the Brain?

MONDAY, NOV 2, 2020 (HealthDay News) — Physical activity is known to help prevent dementia and disease, but it’s possible that the kind you do makes a difference. A new study found that hard physical work not only doesn’t lower the risk of dementia, it increases the risk of developing the disease. Researchers found that people who do hard physical work have a 55 percent higher risk of developing dementia than those doing sedentary work. “The WHO [World Health Organization] guide to preventing dementia and disease on the whole mentions physical activity as an important factor. But our study suggests that it
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