from journal Neurology
Another case for daily physical activity comes from Rush University Medical Center in Chicago and the journal Neurology. The research shows that people in the lower ten percent of daily physical activity were more than twice as likely to develop Alzheimer’s disease as people in the top ten percent of daily activity. Researchers fitted more than seven hundred people with an average age of eighty-two with an actigraph, a device worn on the wrist, that monitors not only exercise, but other daily activities like cooking or washing dishes. The volunteers only wore the actigraph for ten days, but were followed for four years with tests for memory and thinking abilities. Rush researchers say the results provide support for physical activity even among the very old.