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#BrainHealth: you are what you eat?

If you take #BrainHealth seriously you need to focus on diet. Do you buy into 'you are what you eat' ? This ambitious systematic  literature  review has identified 10 foods and 7 nutrients with evidence for causal cardio-metabolic effects. Any intervention that reduces your vascular risk burden should reduce all-cause dementia and improve your Brain Health.  The foods that were found to have  protective effects : fruits vegetables beans/legumes nuts/seeds whole grains fish yogurt fibre seafood omega-3s polyunsaturated fats potassium The food found to have  harmful effects:  unprocessed red meats processed meats sugar-sweetened beverages glycemic load (sugar or carbohydrates) trans-fats sodium/salt.  There is nothing new here and most of this should be obvious to you and is currently included in mots dietary guidelines. The elephant in the room is economics; in modern economies people eat what they can afford. Modifying ...