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Walking and moderate exercise help prevent dementia
People age 65 and older who regularly walk and get other forms of moderate exercise appear to significantly lower their risk of developing vascular dementia, the second most common form of dementia after Alzheimer's disease, according to a study published in the Dec. 19, 2007, online issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.
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