You may proudly speak out the popular filmy dialogue, "Buddha hoga tera baap", referring to your own aging process, but you need to act out a bit in order to justify your statement. You may be investing on hair colors and anti-wrinkle creams to sustain your "youth", but you are still getting to hear "uncle" or "aunty" from your neighbors or associates. The reason may not be hidden in your looks or age-related skin symptoms, but in your cognition.
Cognition and abilities related to memory and learning may defeat you right away even if you achieve to look 10 years younger. You may argue that it happens to all the individuals as they age. You may try to draw the references of your own experience with your grandma.
Yes, cognitive decline may hit us as our hair turns gray, but we have some control over it as well. Prove that you are not old by doing some physical activity and prove that you are sincere in your effort by reducing your salt intake. This is how you'll be able to have a younger brain function, which will prove you as "young and energetic" in every sense of the "youth" terminology.
Researchers at the Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care, McGill University, the Institut Universitaire de Geriatrie de Montreal and the Universite de Sherbrooke have found that a high-sodium diet coupled with a low level of physical activity can cause cognitive decline in elderly people.
Researchers examined these two parameters in 1,262 healthy men and women who were between the ages 67 and 84. The study period lasted for three years. A figure of 2,263 mg per day was considered as low sodium intake, about 3,090 mg (maximum) per day was taken as medium sodium intake and a minimum of 3,090 mg per day was considered as high sodium intake. Some seniors were found to be taking 8,098 mg per day.
Study authors have tried to draw a closer attention on the lifestyle patterns of most of the seniors. Munching on high-sodium snacks and being couch potatoes in front of television sets form the usual pastimes for most of the seniors. Researchers believe that the seniors should pay more importance to the benefits of lifestyle changes in preventing cognitive impairment.
