Eating more berries can slow down brain decline
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Last Update: 2012-05-17
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A study in the United States found that women who ate more flavonoids rich berries such as blueberries and strawberries had a slower mental decline The study began in 1976 and lasted for 25 years It was conducted on 16000 American women The paper was published in the latest American annals of Neurology The subjects regularly filled in questionnaires about their eating habits, and were tested for brain function every two years from 1995 to 2001 The results showed that women who ate more berries delayed their mental decline by an average of two and a half years "We provide first-hand evidence that berries seem to delay cognitive decline in older women," wrote Elizabeth dewall, a doctor at Harvard women's hospital "Our findings have important public health implications, and that eating more berries as a simple way of adjusting diet can protect cognitive function in older women." With the aging of population structure in the United States and the increasing trend of intellectual decline in the elderly, it is particularly important to delay the natural decline of brain function Robert Graham, a physician at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York who was not involved in the study, told AFP that eating more berries is actually good for people of all ages "A large number of studies have shown that berries have good antioxidant capacity, which is beneficial to some people, especially in anti cognitive aging."
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