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<div id='article-page'><div id='article-content' data-media-url='//news-app-staging.s3.amazonaws.com' data-base-url='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5625/A17.wav' data-capture-url='//staging.analytics.lingraphica.com/events/capture_news' data-article-title='Simple Exercise Can Slow Memory Loss' data-article-id='6196'><script src='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/javascripts/getscripts.js'></script><link rel='stylesheet' href='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/stylesheets/article.css' type='text/css' /><div class='article'><p><span data-start-time='0' data-end-time='13167'>New research suggests that even a simple exercise program might help older people with light, or mild, memory problems.</span> <span data-start-time='13167' data-end-time='22229'>Doctors have long advised patients to do physical activity to help keep their brains healthy. </span> <span data-start-time='22229' data-end-time='35542'>But the U.S. government-supported research marks the longest study of whether exercise makes any difference once memory starts to decline.</span> <span data-start-time='35542' data-end-time='46917'>Researchers found around 300 inactive older adults with memory changes called mild cognitive impairment (MCI). </span> <span data-start-time='46917' data-end-time='53500'>MCI is a condition that sometimes comes before Alzheimer’s disease.</span> <span data-start-time='53500' data-end-time='63813'>Half of the older adults did aerobic exercises, and the rest did stretching and balance movements that raised their heart rates a little.</span> <span data-start-time='63813' data-end-time='75688'>People in both groups got attention from trainers who worked with them at youth organization centers called YMCAs around the United States. </span> <span data-start-time='75688' data-end-time='84604'>When COVID-19 shut down gyms, the trainers helped the study participants keep moving at home by video calls.</span> <span data-start-time='84604' data-end-time='100083'>After a year, testing of mental activity showed neither group had worsened, said lead researcher Laura Baker of Wake Forest School of Medicine in the state of North Carolina. </span> <span data-start-time='100083' data-end-time='108125'>Brain scans did not show the shrinkage that often goes with worsening memory problems, she said.</span> <span data-start-time='108125' data-end-time='123521'>By comparison, similar MCI patients in another long-term study of brain health but without exercise experienced cognitive, or mental, decline over a year.</span> <span data-start-time='123521' data-end-time='126146'>The early findings are surprising. </span> <span data-start-time='126146' data-end-time='137063'>But the National Institute on Aging cautioned that tracking non-exercisers in the same study would have offered better evidence.</span> <span data-start-time='137063' data-end-time='148521'>The results suggest this is doable for everybody not just seniors healthy enough to work up a hard sweat, said Baker. </span> <span data-start-time='148521' data-end-time='156771'>She presented the data recently at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference.</span> <span data-start-time='156771' data-end-time='164813'>Exercise needs to be part of the prevention strategies for at-risk seniors, she added.</span> </p></div><div class='control-buttons-sticky' style='display:none;'><div class='control-buttons'><button title='Back' class='back' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Play' class='play' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Pause' class='pause' style='display:none;'></button><button title='Forward' class='forward' disabled='disabled'></button><button class='finished-reading' style='display:none;'>Done</button></div></div></div><div id='article-media'><div id='media-image'><img src='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5625/A17.jpeg'/></div></div><div id='question-content' 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data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5625/three_hundred.wav'><span>three hundred</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5625/three_thousand.wav'><span>three thousand</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5625/thirty.wav'><span>thirty</span></div><div class='choice' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5625/three.wav'><span>three</span></div></div></div><div class='sentence_completion_question question-container' data-question-id=18826 data-hint-location='100083' style='display:none;'><div class='question' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5625/brain__blank__did_not_show_the_shrinkage_that_often_goes_with_worsening_memory_problems_she_said.wav'>Brain <span class='blank'>scans</span> did not show the shrinkage that often goes with worsening memory problems, 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