Diet affects brain health
No real surprise here, but Science News Online has published an informative article about the connection between diet, exercise and brain health in the long run:
"Scientists are providing hints that what you choose to consume or avoid in your daily diet can have consequences on the brain's resiliency in the face of injury or disease. Studies suggest that foods such as fish and a curry spice called curcumin, for example, can give the brain an added edge to stay healthy.
On the other hand, a steady diet of high-fat and starchy foods, such as that double cheeseburger from a favorite fast-food joint, may eventually do the brain a serious disservice. On the extreme end of dieting, some research indicates that paring food intake to the bare minimum may protect the brain from a lifetime of everyday insults.
Taken together, these results point in a direction that any kid could have seen coming: Once again, Mom was right."
You can read the rest of the article here.
The first part of the two-part series focuses on the connection between exercise and the brain and may be read here.
"Scientists are providing hints that what you choose to consume or avoid in your daily diet can have consequences on the brain's resiliency in the face of injury or disease. Studies suggest that foods such as fish and a curry spice called curcumin, for example, can give the brain an added edge to stay healthy.
On the other hand, a steady diet of high-fat and starchy foods, such as that double cheeseburger from a favorite fast-food joint, may eventually do the brain a serious disservice. On the extreme end of dieting, some research indicates that paring food intake to the bare minimum may protect the brain from a lifetime of everyday insults.
Taken together, these results point in a direction that any kid could have seen coming: Once again, Mom was right."
You can read the rest of the article here.
The first part of the two-part series focuses on the connection between exercise and the brain and may be read here.
posted by Jim at 11:33 AM
1 Comments:
Thanks for posting this, Jim. I love getting information that validates what I'm already doing. Got the fish oil, got the curcumin. Exercise, yup. But I can always do better.
Good golly! A special machine that standardizes blows to a mouse's head? That is wrong on so many levels.
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