To keep your brain young, Improve your diet!

To keep your brain young, Improve your diet!

Good nutrition can help your mind as well as your body. Here are some specifics:

Keep your calories in check. In both animals and humans, a reduced caloric intake has been linked to a lower risk of mental decline in old age.

Eat the right foods. That means reducing your consumption of saturated fat and cholesterol from animal sources and of trans-fatty acids from partially hydrogenated vegetable oils.

Remember your Bs. Three B vitamins, folic acid, B6, and B12, can help lower your homocysteine levels, high levels of which have been linked to an increased risk of dementia.

 Fortified cereal, other grains, and leafy green vegetables are good sources of B vitamins.

Info source:

http://www.health.harvard.edu/fhg/updates/update0606a.shtml

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From: http://www.nih.gov/news/pr/feb2002/nia-13.htm

High http://www.nih.gov/news/pr/feb2002/nia-13.htm in the blood had nearly double the risk of developing Alzheimer's disease (AD), according to a new report from scientists at Boston University. The findings, in a group of people participating in the long-running Framingham Study, are the first to tie homocysteine levels measured several years before with later diagnosis of AD and other dementias. The report, which appears in the February 14, 2002, issue of The New England Journal of Medicine, provides some of the most powerful evidence yet of an association between high plasma homocysteine and later, significant memory loss.