Everyone knows that the food we eat can have a positive or detrimental effect on certain aspects of our health. But a new survey showcases a link between cognitive acuity and the food we eat as we get older. For once, the highlighted foods are not fruit and vegetables (known health boosters) but wine and cheese.
This study, recently published in the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease, was led by Iowa State University researchers. They analyzed data for 1,787 adults aged between 46 and 77 at the end of the study. All the participants were part of the United Kingdom Biobank, a large-scale biomedical database containing in-depth genetic and health information from 500,000 U.K. participan…
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