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Mental aerobics help you puzzle your way to
brain health
Speakers at the Alzheimer’s Association Education Conference in July 2004
reinforced the connection between an active intellectual life and reducing
the risk of Alzheimer’s.
Beverly Sanborn, a
licensed clinical social worker, presented a workshop titled “How to
Exercise Your Mind and Memory,” which offered five suggestions for staying
healthy in mind:
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Practice
organizing ideas
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Exercise your
long-term memory
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Learn something
new every day
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Exercise your
mind and memory simultaneously
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Perform mind,
memory and body movement simultaneously (e.g., square dancing)
The following
three brain teasers enable you to practice #1, 2 and 4. If your score
isn’t perfect, you’ll get an opportunity to develop #3.
To keep your brain
healthy, keep it active through a steady diet of mental aerobics. These
three problems are just right for synapse stimulation.
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These letters
make a series. Work out the logic and fill in the two missing letters.
M T ? T F S ?
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What do these
three items have in common?
Needle.
Hurricane. Potato
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Fill in the
missing words (it’s OK to use a dictionary or any other source you want
to fill this in – it all helps Maintain Your Brain™).
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A _ _ _ _ _ _
of geese.
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A _ _ _ _ _ _
of hens.
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A _ _ _ _ _ of
lions.
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A _ _ _ _ _ _
of fish.
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A _ _ _ _ of
cows.
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A _ _ _ of
seals.
Answers:
1. These are the
days of the week starting with Monday, so the missing letters are W
(Wednesday) and S (Sunday).
2. They all have
an eye.
3. a. gaggle, b.
clutch, c. pride, d. school, e. herd, f. pod
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