The good news is you can! Research is proving there's a lot you can do to keep your brain healthy, lessen the risk of brain disease, and stay cognitively fit for a lifetime.
He's an evangelist for no-till farming, in which fields are left unplowed and covered with plant residue to keep it nutrient-rich and lessen the need for synthetic fertilizers.
You want to keep your basement dry and lessen the chance that you will have damp wood, which invites termites in any climate.
Davenport, the "attorney Santa," advised them to wear white gloves to keep their hands highly visible, to lessen the chance of molestation accusations.
Cut your hair and split ends once a month (just lessen the roots to keep it from tangling).
Although caffeine is renowned for its ability to improve our alertness, it can become a case of diminishing returns if you need to keep increasing the dosage because its effect has lessened over time.
For those fire-prone plants you choose to keep closer than 50 feet, thin them out to lessen the chance of a fire spreading, experts say.
A new option for deriving profit from live sheep is the rental of flocks for grazing; these "mowing services" are hired in order to keep unwanted vegetation down in public spaces and to lessen fire hazard.
A sharp decline in stocks, it was argued, could make people feel less rich and curb their spending, thereby slowing the economy's torpid growth and lessening the Fed's need to act to keep inflation at bay.
The goal was to keep from blurring the distinction between nuclear and conventional weapons by lessening the difference in their destructive power.
"It is an evolving program and we continue to make changes in the program as long as we don't lessen the impact, which has always been to keep drunk drivers off the road," he said.
