[For Seniors] Popular Brain Training and Recreational Quizzes

Eating tomatoes can help prevent a certain disease. What disease is it?

If tomatoes can help easily prevent diseases, you’d want to make sure to include them in your daily meals, right? So what diseases can tomatoes help prevent? Here’s a hint: over 50% of people will develop this disease at some point in their lives, and it can also be prevented by improving lifestyle habits.

The answer is cancer! The vitamins A, C, and E in tomatoes, as well as lycopene—an antioxidant—are said to suppress reactive oxygen species that can cause cancer.

This effect of tomatoes has been supported by many findings around the world.

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Grid-fill calculation

🐦 Fill-in-the-Grid Math 🐦 10 total questions! A brain-training puzzle where you fill in the blanks so the sums match the specified numbers! Activate your brain with calculations to help prevent dementia.

While brain-training activities recommended for seniors include word chain games (shiritori), riddles, and delayed rock-paper-scissors, this one involves doing arithmetic problems mentally.

Hearing “arithmetic problems” might make you think they’re difficult, but to activate the brain, it’s better to start with simple addition and subtraction rather than hard problems.

Even simple calculations can give you a sense of achievement when you solve them using your head.

As the exercises progress, the numbers get larger, so try gradually challenging yourself to speed up your calculations as well.

Showa Quiz

[Showa Quiz: 10 Questions] Let’s Look Back on the Nostalgic Showa Era! Introducing Fun Multiple-Choice Questions [Brain Training for Seniors]

Showa Quiz is an effective way to stimulate the brains of older adults who lived through the Showa era.

By revisiting the quiz, they can reaffirm the events and trends of the years they experienced.

It enriches emotional reminiscence, strengthens memory, and creates opportunities for interaction with other visitors.

The feeling of nostalgia is said to bring various benefits to the brain, such as reducing stress, increasing happiness and helping maintain brain health, and fostering a more positive outlook toward one’s future self.