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“Regain an Agile Brain,” and 7, “Enjoy Your Ageless Mental
Agility,” address these issues and provide you with many,
many suggestions and activities to improve your mental
acuity. You will learn and practice specific and detailed
strategies to increase your education, keep you physically
fit, increase your self-esteem, and keep you mentally fit. The
younger you are when you begin to apply these strategies,
the better off you will be. 13
And by the way, all the statements on the quiz you just
took are true. They are all results of recent research into the
aging process.

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