Brain Health Presentation
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Shannon Chin, from Fit Minds Australia, came to the Astra to talk to us about Brain Health. She spoke about the 8 pillars that support healthy brain function, how to age well, and how to reduce our risk of developing dementia.
She gave practical tips on how to keep our brains healthy. These are a couple of simple, effective tricks that we could all do:
Pick five random words from a book and write them down, then come back after about an hour and see if you can remember the words. When you are finding this too easy, you can increase the amount of time between writing and remembering and increase the number of words.
When you are in the supermarket, try to add up your shopping item by item, and then see how close you are when you pay at the tills.
Shannon also spoke about the benefits of diet and exercise, as well as other activities you can do regularly to keep your brain healthy. Sudokus, crosswords, jigsaws, games and learning new languages were just some of the things she suggested. The important thing is to keep your mind active with regular training, and to do different things to make sure it doesn't just get stuck in familiar patterns. It was a really excellent and interesting talk, with those that came saying how much they appreciated it.