脑退化症UCLAONALZHEIMERS.doc

腦退化症：UCLA ON ALZHEIMERS (美國加州大學 老年中心主任G. Small博士) UCLA (University of California at Los Angeles ) ON ALZHEIMERS ◎Gary Small, MD, is Professor of Psychiatry and Bio- behavioral Sciences and Parlow-Solomon Professor on Aging at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, where he is also Founding Director of the UCLA Memory Clinic and Director of the UCLA Center on Aging. The idea that Alzheimers is entirely genetic and unpreventable is perhaps the Greatest misconception about the disease, says Gary Small, M.D., director of The UCLA Center on Aging. Researchers now know that Alzheimers, like heart Disease and cancer, develops over decades and can be influenced by lifestyle Factors including cholesterol, blood pressure, obesity, depression, education, nutrition, sleep and mental, physical and social activity. 洛杉磯加州大學老年中心主任 Gray Small 博士說：「那種認為腦退化症(譯注—阿兹海默氏症—過去亦稱老人痴呆症，按香港醫務衛生署建議改為腦退化症—下同) 完全來自遺傳的和不可預防的想法，是對這個病症的最大誤解。」研究人員現在已經明白，腦退化症就像心臟病和癌症，是經年累月發展起來的病症，是受生活方式因素所影響，這些因素包括膽固醇、血壓、肥胖、癌症、憂鬱、教育、營養、睡眠、腦力、體力和社交活動等等。 The big news: Mountains of research reveals that simple things you do every day might cut your odds of losing your mind to Alzheimers. 好消息：大量的研究指出，只要每日做一些簡單小事就有可能把腦退化症發病機會降低。 In search of scientific ways to delay and outlive Alzheimers and other Dementias, I tracked down thousands of studies and interviewed dozens of Experts. The results in a new book: 100 Simple Things You Can Do to Prevent Alzheimers and Age-Related Memory Loss (Little, Brown; $19.99). Here are 10 strategies I found most surprising. 為了尋找可以推遲腦退化症和其他癡呆症發生的科學方法，我閱讀了過千份報告及訪談了數十名專家。結論就在一本新書：“你能做得到的100件簡單事情可以預防腦退化症和與老年有關的痴呆症”。下面是我認最值得驚喜的10項策略。 1. Have coffee. In an amazing flip-flop, coffee is the new brain tonic. A large European study showed that drinking three to five cups of coffee a day in Midlife cut Alzheimers risk 65% in late life. University of South Florida Researcher Gary Arendash credits caffeine: He says it reduces dementia-causing amyloid in animal brains. Others credit coffees an