Is there a way to possibly predict if your 3-year-old is more likely to commit crimes as an adult?
In a new study in the American Journal of Psychiatry, doctors found that children who did not show the normal fear response to loud and unpleasant sounds when they were toddlers, were more likely to commit crimes when they were grown up.
Doctors say the potential for antisocial and criminal behavior may be hard-wired in young brains and this gives us the opportunity to use early interventions to help.
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Your mother may have been right about taking a daily multivitamin.
A study in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition finds that people who do take them, have chromosomes with longer markers of the cells' biological clock. But people who take vitamins tend to have better health habits than those who don't so it could be that the other health habits are making the difference.
Also doctors know that exercising, not smoking and keeping a healthful weight do have anti-aging effects down to the cellular level.
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You may consider yourself young in your 40s, but what you are doing right now may be causing you to have dementia later on if you are smoking, or have high blood pressure or diabetes.
One in six Americans older than 70 has dementia. It is especially high among African Americans, but the good news is if you take control of these dangerous health problems and addictions you might have a better chance of not getting dementia and Alzheimer's in your senior years.
