Healthy childhood diet helps keep dementia away, decades-long study shows

Even slight differences in diet quality from childhood appear to set the tone for later life. Photo: Getty

Vishwam Sankaran
© UK Independent

A healthy diet from childhood up until middle age can keep the brain functioning well into the senior years, cutting off the risk of dementia, according to a new large-scale study.

The yet-to-be peer-reviewed research, whose findings were presented at the Nutrition 2024 conference, assessed data from over 3,000 participants who were followed from their childhood for nearly seven decades.