{"id":330903,"date":"2025-12-07T19:33:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T19:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/330903\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T19:33:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T19:33:06","slug":"for-better-brain-health-its-never-too-late-to-get-active","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/330903\/","title":{"rendered":"For better brain health it&#8217;s never too late to get active"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/09\/06\/health\/step-dementia-risk-wellness\" class=\"visited:text-foreground-secondary visited:decoration-stroke-link underline-brand-hover hover:visited:text-foreground-primary\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2022 study found<\/a> that people who walked just 3,800 steps per day lowered their risk of dementia by 25 percent, and, generally, the more steps participants walked, the greater the benefits were. Using a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/09\/20\/health\/cycling-lower-dementia-risk-study-wellness\" class=\"visited:text-foreground-secondary visited:decoration-stroke-link underline-brand-hover hover:visited:text-foreground-primary\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">bike instead of a car<\/a>, bus or train for transportation has been linked with a 19 percent lower risk of dementia and a 22 percent reduced risk of Alzheimer&#8217;s disease.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 2022 study found that people who walked just 3,800 steps per day lowered their risk of dementia&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":330904,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[49,48,407,84],"class_list":{"0":"post-330903","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fitness","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-fitness","11":"tag-health"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}