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Article: Top Foods to Keep Your Mind Young.
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- Biotech Week
- Article date:
- November 4, 2009
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Diets rich in strawberries, other berries, nuts, and certain spices may lower age-related cognitive declines and the risk of neurodegenerative disease, according to James Joseph, Ph.D., of the USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University in Boston. Dr. Joseph describes his breakthrough work on the everyday foods that promote brain health during a presentation this week at Neuroscience 2009, the 39th annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience being held in Chicago (see also Dementia).
Aging often results in mental decline -- and the world's aging population is large and growing. There are currently 390 million people over the age of 65 ...