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Can diet and exercise lower the risk of Alzheimer's?

Elderly people are silhouetted as they exercise early in the morning on Tuesday Oct. 29, 2013, by the beach, in Singapore. (Wong Maye-E/AP)
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Elderly people are silhouetted as they exercise early in the morning on Tuesday Oct. 29, 2013, by the beach, in Singapore. (Wong Maye-E/AP)

The results of a $40 million study show that interventions like diet and exercise can prevent declines in cognition and memory in older people at risk of Alzheimer’s.

NPR’s Jon Hamilton reports from the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference in Toronto.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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