Tag Archives: brain

Eating fish once a week may lower risk of dementia is elderly

Eating fish at least once a week could help lower older patients’ risk of developing dementia, according to Cyrus Raji, MD, PhD, from the University of Pittsburgh and colleagues reported at the Nov. 2011 Radiological Society of North America meeting. Those who ate baked or broiled — but not fried — fish on a weekly [...]

Watch your weight – for your brain’s sake

News related to obesity has recently been splattered all over the news, even more than usual in my opinion.  The latest headline is that obese or overweight patients had significantly less brain matter than those whose weights were considered normal.  The research article, “Brain Structure and Obesity,” resulted from a collaboration between the University of [...]