Memory problems at a young   age?

                    
An increasing number of young women are suffering from poor memory, according to a new report.
  While memory problems are normally seen as sing of ageing , the latest study found that 14 per cent of young women 18 & 39 also complained that their memory was poor.

Now researchers  leading the study say that stress & multi-tasking lifestyles could be to blame.

To examine the impact of these lifestyle choices on memory throughout adult life,researchers from UCLA collaborated on a nationwide poll of more than 18,500 individuals between the ages of 18 & 99.
Respondents were surveyed about both their memory and their health behaviors, including whether they smoked , how much they exercised and how healthy their diet was.

As the researchers expected, healthy eating, not smoking and exercising regularly were related to better self-perceived memory abilities for most adult groups.
 Older adults (aged between 60 & 99) were more likely to report engaging in healthy behaviors than middle -aged (aged between 40-59) and younger adults (aged between 18-39) a finding that runs counter to the stereotype that aging is a time of dependence and decline .

In addition to this a higher than expected percentage of younger adults complained about their memory.