According to researchers at The University of Pittsburgh... "walking 5 miles per week helps reduce the progression of mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease".

"Physical activity boosts the brain's resistance to Alzheimer's," said lead study author Cyrus Raji, PhD, from the university's department of radiology. "People who walked more had a slower progression of Alzheimer's disease and mild cognitive impairment over five years, and, as a result, they had a better preservation of the hippocampus, the frontal lobes, and the temporal lobes."

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Blood pressure - what it is and how to monitor your own at home:

One of the first steps to controlling what could prove to be a fatal disease. Could only be just a fingertip away by using blood pressure monitors in your own home.

High blood pressure or hypertension, remains one of the most destructive invisible diseases which has no cure. However, it can easily be avoided or regulated with the use of a Sphygmomanometer (blood pressure monitor) and the aid of your doctor...