Eating Fish Slows Aging of the Brain
April 12, 2011 by Dr. Marc Darrow, M.D.
Filed under Aging, Cognitive Function, Diet and Lifestyle
Study Published in the October 10, 2005 issue of the Archives of Neurology.
You can read the entire article here
In brief, researchers looked at people 65 years of age and over to see if intakes of fish and omega-3 fatty acids protected against “age-related cognitive decline.”
What did they find? Quoted from the article in the Archives of Neurology:
“Dietary intake of fish was inversely associated with cognitive decline over 6 years in this older, biracial community study.
The rate of decline was reduced by 10% to 13% per year among persons who consumed 1 or more fish meals per week compared with those with less than weekly consumption.
The rate reduction is the equivalent of being 3 to 4 years younger in age.
There were no consistent associations with the omega-3 fatty acids, although the effect estimates were in the direction of slower decline.”
