One habit can triple your risk of getting dementia within 7 years. Here’s what not to do.

If you want to lower your risk of Alzheimer’s or other type of dementia, just get up

If you want to lower your risk of getting Alzheimer’s or some other type of dementia, turn off the TV and step away from the internet. Get off your rear end and go do something.

That’s not me talking. That’s science.

A new study of people 60 and older has found that sitting around for more than 10 hours a day may drastically — and quickly— raise your risk of getting dementia.

Seniors who were sedentary for 12 hours a day were 63% more likely to develop dementia within about seven years than those who sat for nine and a quarter hours or less, the researchers found.

And those who loafed for 15 hours a day were a stunning 220% more likely to develop dementia during that short period.

So, really. Get off the sofa.

During the pandemic, we spent several years talking about little else besides COVID-19. We scrubbed apples with Ajax, hid indoors, wore multiple masks and did all sorts of other things in the hope of minimizing our risk of contracting the virus.

To date the number of U.S. deaths due to COVID totals 1.14 million.

But dementia? It is already killing 6.6 million people in the U.S. — that’s how many people the Alzheimer’s Association says are living with Alzheimer’s today. There is no cure, little in the way of treatment, and no vaccine. And it isn’t going away. Instead, it is getting worse — much worse.

Our lifetime risk of getting dementia may be as high as one in four, according to recent research out of the Netherlands. In the U.S., about a third of seniors get dementia before they die, according to the Alzheimer’s Association.

And deaths from dementia are often horrible — especially for the people who care about you, for whom the experience is sheer agony.

So any way to lower the risk has to be good. Even if it means getting off the sofa.

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