Berries might provide a safe and easy way to boost brain power, a new
study suggests. The study from Harvard researchers shows eating berries
could stave off the cognitive decline and memory loss that comes with
aging.
For the study, researchers looked at data from the long-running
Nurses' Health Study of nearly 122,000 registered nurses between the
ages of 30 and 55 who completed health questionnaires starting in 1976.
Every four years the nurses were surveyed on their eating habits and
between 1995 and 2001, researchers began testing memory in 16,000 of the
nurses who by this time were over 70 years old.
Testing the
subjects' memory in two-year intervals, the researchers found nurses who
ate the most blueberries and strawberries delayed their memory decline
up to 2.5 years compared with those who did not report eating berries.
The findings are published in the April 26 issue of the Annals of Neurology.
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