Sometime we just need a litttle bit of good news..
People who eat full-fat cheese and cream may have a lower risk of developing dementia, a new study suggests.
The study, which analyzed the dietary habits of more than 27,000 people, found that those who ate around 50 grams of full-fat cheese daily had a 13% lower risk of developing all-cause dementia than those who ate only around 15 grams per day.
“In earlier work, we found that higher intakes of fermented milk products such as yoghurt, as well as cheese, were associated with a lower risk of cardiovascular disease. Because vascular health and brain health are closely linked, it was a natural next step to examine whether dairy intake might also relate to dementia risk,” senior study author Dr. Emily Sonestedt, associate professor in nutritional epidemiology at Lund University, told Technology Networks.
The research is published in Neurology.
The effects of diet on brain health
What you eat can have a significant effect on your brain. Randomized trials have shown that adherence to the Mediterranean diet is associated with better episodic and working memory. The Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) diet, while intended to reduce elevated blood pressure, is also thought to have a potentially beneficial effect on brain health; following the DASH diet may reduce the risk of cognitive decline, due to the known association between hypertension and cognitive function.
Most notably, the MIND diet—or the Mediterranean-DASH Diet Intervention for Neurodegenerative Delay—combines elements from both the Mediterranean and DASH diets, with the explicit aim of slowing cognitive decline and preventing dementia with aging.
https://www.technologynetworks.com/tn/news/full-fat-cheese-linked-to-lowered-dementia-risk-408781
