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It is subject to delicately balanced optimization that ensures that relevant memories are recalled.

Forgetting can be reduced by repetition and / or more elaborate cognitive processing of information.

Emotional states are just one of the many factors that have been found to effect this process of forgetting. Failing to retrieve an event does not mean that this specific event has been forever forgotten.

This could just mean the information was not encoded well.

Research has shown that there are a few health behaviors that to some extent can prevent forgetting from happening so often.

One of the simplest ways to keep the brain healthy and prevent forgetting is to stay active and exercise.

Staying active is important because overall it keeps the body healthy.

When the body is healthy the brain is healthy and less inflamed as well.

Older adults who were more active were found to have had less episodes of forgetting compared to those older adults who were less active.

A healthy diet can also contribute to a healthier brain and aging process which in turn results in less frequent forgetting.

Reviewing information in ways that involve active retrieval seems to slow the rate of forgetting.

Paul Connerton stated that there are seven types of forgetting, which are repressive erasure, prescriptive forgetting, formation of new identity, structural amnesia, annulment, planned obsolescence, and humiliated silence.