Choosing foods that aregood for your heartmay also have benefits for your brain, a new study suggests.
Decades later, when participants were 79 years old on average, they completed cognitive function questionnaires.
A DASH diet can also help the brain by lowering blood pressure, Budson adds.
Reducing blood pressure reduces cognitive decline, likely because it reduces both large strokes and mini-strokes.
Chan School of Public Health in Boston.
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