{"id":1450,"date":"2007-01-13T17:22:02","date_gmt":"2007-01-13T22:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/martinepage.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/13\/one-more-reason\/"},"modified":"2007-01-13T17:23:19","modified_gmt":"2007-01-13T22:23:19","slug":"one-more-reason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/13\/one-more-reason\/","title":{"rendered":"One more reason&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; to keep my blog bilingual:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>People who are fully bilingual and speak both languages every day for most of their lives can delay the onset of dementia by up to four years compared with those who only know one language, Canadian scientists said on Friday.<br \/>\n Researchers said the extra effort involved in using more than one language appeared to boost blood supply to the brain and ensure nerve connections remained healthy &#8212; two factors thought to help fight off dementia.<br \/>\nThe Alzheimer Society of Canada described the report as exciting and said it confirmed recent studies that showed that keeping the brain active was a good way to delay the impact of dementia.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciam.com\/article.cfm?chanID=sa003&#038;articleID=AC4FF5E8DCF9DAA23C293B96D8EA9EF5\">Scientific American<\/a>, found via <a href=\"http:\/\/montreal.metblogs.com\/archives\/2007\/01\/another_benefit.phtml\">Metroblogging Montreal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; to keep my blog bilingual: People who are fully bilingual and speak both languages every day for most of their lives can delay the onset of dementia by up to four years compared with those who only know one language, Canadian scientists said on Friday. Researchers said the extra effort involved in using more&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/13\/one-more-reason\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">One more reason&#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1450"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}