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
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.
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