Food patterns that improve brain function or contribute to cognitive decline

Diet of walnuts, blueberries improve cognition; may help maintain brain function: Junk food junkies take notice. What you eat does more than influence your gut. It also may affect your brain. Increasing evidence shows that mom was right: You should eat your vegetables, and your blueberries and walnuts, too.

Research links diet to cognitive decline and dementia: Research has shown convincing evidence that dietary patterns practiced during adulthood are important contributors to age-related cognitive decline and dementia risk. Diets high in fruit, vegetables, cereals and fish and low in saturated fats may reduce dementia risk.

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