[WATCH]: Alzheimer's Preventable with Lifestyle Changes

New research suggests that nearly half of worldwide Alzheimer's disease cases can be prevented by making healthy lifestyle changes that are often associated with preventing other chronic health conditions. Researchers at the San Francisco VA Medical Center concluded that the following contributed to the disease: physical inactivity, depression, smoking, mid-life hypertension, mid-life obesity, low education and diabetes. And that changing these could prevent Alzheimer's. In analyzing data from other Alzheimer's studies with thousands of participants, lead researcher Deborah Barnes, Ph.D., found that together these risk factors are linked with 54% of Alzheimer's cases in the United States (2.9 million cases) and 51% of cases

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