Maybe the women in my family knew what they were doing when they served us fish every Friday? Because according to recent studies, eating fish can delay dementia.
Alzheimer's disease and other causes of dementia are steadily growing in aging populations around the world. In an effort to combat this, researchers have recently concluded that eating fish at least once a week slows the toll that aging takes on the brain.
Why? The Omega-3 fatty acids that are contained in fish (like my favorite Salmon:) seem to boost brain functioning and protect the brains of the aging participants in the Chicago study.
According to findings in the study, the rate of mental decline in the aging participants was reduced by 10 to 13 percent when they ate one or more meals of fish.
This finding is important because it means that the reduction was the equivalent of being three to four years younger.
Study findings were reported online by the Archives of Neurology and written by Martha Clare of Rush University Medical Center in Chicago.
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