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Flavonoids in fruits, red wine and tea might protect your brain from dementia

Reduce the risk of getting dementia by two to four folds

13-May-2020

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Flavonoids can reduce inflammation that is linked to Alzheimer's and other dementias.

Including lots of fruits, teas and wine in the diet may lower the chance of developing dementia.

Can’t prove a definitive cause-and-effect relationship.

Participants on the lowest amounts of apples, pears and tea had twice the risk.

Needs to learn the effect of diet in a larger, more diverse population.

Study included 2800 participants who were above 50 years when the study started in 1970.

Research by Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University published in American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.

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Heather Snyder

Vice president of Medical & Scientific Relations at the Alzheimer’s Association

Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging (HNRCA) at Tufts University

A human nutrition research center supported by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) base at Tufts University in Boston

Paul F. Jacques

Senior Scientist of the Nutritional Epidemiology Team at the HNRCA

The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition (AJCN)

Journal delivering informaton in the field of nutrition

Topics mentioned on this page:
Alzheimer's Disease, Diet