cover image The Memory Bible: An Innovative Strategy for Keeping Your Brain Young

The Memory Bible: An Innovative Strategy for Keeping Your Brain Young

Gary Small. Hyperion Books, $25.95 (320pp) ISBN 978-0-7868-6826-1

Nonfiction Notes Growing Older Anyone who has ever forgotten their purse, wallet or cell phone and remembered it while stuck in traffic, or struggled to remember the name of a movie they just saw or a person they just met will find help in The Memory Bible: An Innovative Strategy for Keeping Your Brain Young. Neuroscientist Gary Small says that middle-aged people need to realize that they are ""all one day closer to Alzheimer's disease."" He gives prescriptive tips for ""brain fitness,"" among them: minimize stress, do puzzles and brainteasers even eat antioxidant fruits and vegetables like prunes and blueberries. Agent, Sandra Dijkstra. (June)