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World Service,23 Jan 2006,22 mins

Beating Dementia With Exercise

Health Matters

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Dementia fears, disease stigma, penguin walking sticks, training to be an Afghan doctor. A look at how exercising three times a week or more can help ward off dementia. How penguins walking habits could helping us do away with walking sticks, Also in the programme two Afghan doctors tell of their story to train under the country's Taliban regime and how certain conditions seem to attract stigma.

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