Newspaper blog

Today I read a newspaper article written by Marilynn Marchione (an AP Medical Writer) called Healthy Living Can Prevent Alzheimer's. As you may have realized from the title this article was about changing your lifestyle to a healthy one which can possibly prevent the worldwide epidemic known as Alzheimer’s disease. Alzheimer’s for all of you who may not know is a form of dementia which is a loss of brain function that occurs with certain diseases.  To really capture the readers’ attention she adds an expert testimony by the associations’ chief officer William Thies. Prevention is a particularly attractive option given the state of therapy. That's why there's so much interest in it,” She goes on to explain that it can be prevented by living healthier and curbing risk factors such as smoking, depression, high blood pressure, diabetes, obesity, lack of education and lack of exercise. To help the reader understand how all of these factors contribute to Alzheimer’s disease she begins to give an explanation for each. She goes in order classifying each factor by the impact it is causing and the amount of people that these factors pertain to. Finally as the article is coming to an end she puts a few more statistics, and compacted them to make sure what the readers are reading sticks in their head. "Reducing these seven risk factors by 25 percent could mean 3 million fewer cases of Alzheimer's worldwide, including half a million in the U.S., researchers estimated. Reducing risk factors by 10 percent would translate to 1.1 million fewer cases". There she ends on a literal analogy showing the difference it can make to live a healthier lifestyle.