See You Around Campus, Dad

Most teenagers heading off to college look forward to getting away from their parents. Not for Isabella Tobias. The start of school will actually bring her closer to her father.

“I don’t know anyone who has gotten the gift of going to school with a parent,” she said. “College is a scary thing the first year. You are meeting people from all over the world and it will be a nice thing to have a guiding hand to help me transition from high school to college.” Read more

Something to Chew On

A recent study has confirmed that a healthy, Mediterranean-style diet combined with regular exercise can reduce the risk of Alzheimer’s disease. Previous studies have linked diet and exercise, independently, to reduced Alzheimer’s risk, but the recent investigation, at the Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer’s Disease and the Aging Brain at Columbia University Medical Center, reveals that combining these life choices helps even more.

“We wanted to tease out which of these two behaviors may be associated with lower risk for AD, or if the combination of the two is associated with decreased risk even further,” Nikos Scarmeas, M.D., lead author of the study, said. Read more