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NEW YORK. If you're having trouble remembering where you left your keys or recalling a word, mull over the number of times and how many...

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NEW YORK. If you're having trouble remembering where you left your keys or recalling a word, mull over the number of times and how many years you've continued with unhealthy behaviors.

Previous research has linked declining thinking and memory skills with unhealthy behaviors such as smoking, abstaining completely from alcohol, not getting enough physical activity, and not eating enough fruits and vegetables on a daily basis.

In the current study, Dr. Severine Sabia and colleagues found the more each of the 5,123 adult participants reported these behaviors the greater their "risk of cognitive deficit," Sabia said.

Over a 17-year period, adult men and women who accumulated the most versus the least number of unhealthy behaviors were nearly three times more likely to show poor thinking skills, and about two times more likely to have declining memory.

Sabia and colleagues reported this in the American Journal of Epidemiology.

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