Your Brain Is What You Eat
By Editorial Staff
Too often, people focus on keeping their bodies healthy and ignore their brains. Big mistake. Fortunately, you can control, at least to some extent, your health from head to toe, as your diet plays a significant role in both body and brain health. The latest evidence: a study that suggests a healthy diet is just what seniors need. Here’s why.
Seniors provided dietary, depressive and anxiety symptom data, and blood tests measured blood-based biomarkers of disease. Eating a healthier diet appeared to lower the risk of both depression and Alzheimer's disease (AD). This potential association is significant because depression is also a risk factor for AD. Findings appear in the research journal
Neurobiology of Aging.
So, which diet is ideal? The study compared the Mediterranean diet with the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension diet and the Western diet, concluding that the Mediterranean diet may be the best suited to promote brain health. To learn more about the Mediterranean diet, click here and talk to your doctor.
