Your hobbies are good for you and your health
If you enjoy reading in your free time, you are maintaining your cognitive health.
Certain leisure activities benefit your cognitive health and reduce the risk of dementia by 17% to 23%. What are these activities? We take stock.
Reading, games and music without moderation
In the medical journal of American Academy of Neurology, Neurology, 38 studies (including more than 2 million people) have been combed through to identify the link between leisure activities and cognitive health. According to the researchers, the regular practice of some of them reduce the risk of dementia. So-called “intellectual” activities are the most beneficial: reading, games thinking, playing an instrument music decrease by 23% the likelihood of suffering from cognitive decline. Crafting also gets the same dementia prevention score.
Physical activity is risk of dementia
physical activities decrease also the risk of 17% dementia according to the researchers. They cite the case of walking racing, swimming bike, yoga and dancing. the Indoor sports would be just as beneficial according to the authors of the scientific article.
Undervalued social activities
Unlike previous studies on the prevention of cognitive diseases the article published in Neurology offers few credits for social activities. In fact, according to the results of the researchers, the social activities such as joining a social club, volunteering visits to parents or to friends reduce the risk of dementia by “only” 7%.
