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...suggesting that a crossword puzzle a day will keep senility at bay or that somehow it's your fault if your mental capacity fails. But given how quickly the average age of Americans is rising and how much the risk of dementia leaps with advancing years, finding anything that delays cognitive decline even a little would be of enormous value...
Several studies have found that folks who regularly engage in mentally challenging activities?like reading, doing crossword puzzles or playing chess?seem less likely to develop dementia later in life. The difficulty comes in figuring out whether their good fortune is a direct result of their leisure activities or whether their continuing pursuit of those pleasures merely reflects good genes for cognitive function...
...easily be implemented without unrealistic changes to the average lifestyle. But it is surprising that he didn't mention the importance of continued mental exercise in ensuring healthy aging. Emphasis was placed on physical exercise to maintain muscle and bone vitality, but surely our brains deserve equal time. Crossword puzzles, word games and logic problems can help stretch our minds and keep our mental capacity limber. My mother lived to be 96 and was sharp as a tack to the very end. I attribute this in large measure to her daily completion of two crossword puzzles in record time. Weil...
...known reality is a Scrabble game conducted with every word carrying the utmost pertinence. And only in my head can I easily share a table and conversation with a college hoops legend. So here’s to you, Miles Simon, wherever you might be and wherever this crossword game called life might take you, for as Willy Wonka puts it in his soaring, climactic ditty: “There is no life I know to compare with pure imagination. Living there, you’ll be free if you truly wish...
...surprising that Weil didn't mention the importance of continued mental exercise in ensuring healthy aging. In addition to physical exercise, our brains need stimulation. Crossword puzzles, word games and logic problems can help stretch our minds and keep our mental capacity limber. Weil ought to step out of the meditation labyrinth he was pictured in and try his hand at a crossword. JEAN FALLS Milton...