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http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=mg18625011.900
Gives advice on what to eat and such to keep your brain in tip top shape. The latest: Bilingual people who use both languages all the time will delay the onset of dimentia (if they are destined for it) by 4 years compared to monolinguals.

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Originally posted by sonhouse
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=mg18625011.900
Gives advice on what to eat and such to keep your brain in tip top shape. The latest: Bilingual people who use both languages all the time will delay the onset of dimentia (if they are destined for it) by 4 years compared to monolinguals.
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Originally posted by Phlabibit
Atthey isey oodgay ewsnay!

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Originally posted by sonhouse
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=mg18625011.900
Gives advice on what to eat and such to keep your brain in tip top shape. The latest: Bilingual people who use both languages all the time will delay the onset of dimentia (if they are destined for it) by 4 years compared to monolinguals.
so if a person speaks three languages. do they get 8 more years on average?

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Originally posted by sonhouse
The latest: Bilingual people who use both languages all the time will delay the onset of dimentia (if they are destined for it) by 4 years compared to monolinguals.
Great news for finnish forum-users like me. And hah hah yanks&brits; be prepared to be senile soon.

phew, 4 years...

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Originally posted by Jusuh
Great news for finnish forum-users like me. And hah hah yanks&brits; be prepared to be senile soon.

phew, 4 years...
Just think, if Bush had two languages, he would maybe have stayed sane for his second term......

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Originally posted by sonhouse
Just think, if Bush had two languages
first, if he had one language...

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