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Eating Fish Regularly Delays Dementia
(Reuters Health, 10/10/05)
Martha Clare Morris of Rush University Medical Center in
Chicago reports that a six-year study demonstrates that eating
fish at least once a week slows down age-related mental
decline. Scientists believe that the omega-3 fatty acids in
fish cut the risk of stroke, protect the brain from the
effects of aging and improve brain function. In a separate
study, Miia Kivipelto of the Karolinska Institute in
Stockholm, and team, reexamined nearly 1,500 participants in a
study that had begun in 1972 and found that that obesity,
hypertension and high cholesterol at midlife each double the
likelihood of future dementia.
(Archives of Neurology, Oct. 2005) |
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