Sticking to a healthy diet in your forties could hold the key to staving off dementia in old age, research suggests.
Eating habits in middle age appear to play a bigger role than previously thought in preventing memory decline.
The study, involving 3,000 British adults, found that the quality of a person’s diet at the age of 43 could predict their risk of getting dementia later in life.
Those whose midlife diets involved lots of leafy vegetables and whole grains were found to have much sharper brains at the age of 69, when memory tests were carried out.
The study, presented at the American Society for Nutrition conference, looked at data from 3,059 UK adults who were born in 1946 and have been tracked for
