PENNSYLVANIA
A recent study conducted at the University of Pittsburgh School of Health Sciences and published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine found that eating baked or broiled fish weekly could boost brain health.
The study included 260 participants, all of them completed questionnaires regarding dietary intake. In addition, all of the subjects had MRI scans of their brain and were followed for an average of 10 years.
The team found that those who consumed baked or broiled fish at lease once per week had 4.3 percent more brain matter responsible for memory and 14 percent for cognition (learning), compared to those who did not consume fish at least once per week.
According to professor of psychiatry, James T Becker, Ph.D.:
"This suggests that lifestyle factors, in this case eating fish, rather than biological factors contribute to structural changes in the brain. A confluence of lifestyle factors likely are responsible for better brain health, and this reserve might prevent or delay cognitive problems that can develop later in life."
If you are interested in boosting your brain health, you might want to consider adding fish to your weekly diet.
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