What is the Most Effective Diet for Brain Health?

A new study seeking to answer what diet is most effective for protecting brain health has yielded a result different from the Mediterranean diet. The research, conducted by Harvard University and analyzing the data of over 159,000 individuals over approximately 30 years, found that the DASH diet showed the strongest relationship in protecting cognitive health. According to the study, participants who most closely followed the DASH diet performed 0.76 years younger on cognitive aging tests. In tests measuring working memory, this group performed 1.37 years younger on average. The researchers noted that acquiring healthy eating habits between the ages of 45 and 54 is associated with a stronger protective effect on brain health in later years.