A combination of seven healthy lifestyle habits including sleeping seven to nine hours daily, exercising regularly and having frequent social contact was associated with a lower risk of dementia in people with type 2 diabetes. Researchers looked at a health care database in the United Kingdom and identified 167,946 people 60 or older with and without diabetes who did not have dementia at the start of the study. Researchers followed participants for an average of 12 years and found that 4,351 people developed dementia. People with diabetes who followed two or fewer of the seven healthy habits were four times more likely to develop dementia than people without diabetes.Read Long Article
