LIFESTYLE: Keeping Our Brain Healthy

How can we live in a way that prevents memory loss, improves brain performance and increases mental fitness? The good news is that research in the late 1990s has shown two important points:

  1. The human brain can generate new brain cells that assist in the battle against neurodegenerative disease.
  2. We create these new cells by selecting environments, behaviors and activities that are enriched, complex and novel.

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EXECUTIVE: A Welcome Message from the New VMNC President

A Welcome Message from the New VMNC President

If the best speech is a short one, it should follow that the best welcome message follows suit.

With this in mind, I again wish to thank our VMNC past-president Roger Love for the countless hours he has given to our club and for his constant hand on the tiller. Roger never rests on his laurels and will continue to arrange monthly second Thursday Cedar Hill Luncheons. (more…)

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