Escape Dementia: Decrease the Risk of Getting The Disease By Eating Berries and Getting An Education

Dementia risks are decreasing for people of at least high school educational attainment, according to the New England Journal of Medicine. A Harvard study, on the other hand, associated regular eating of berries to cognitive decline as well.

Education and eating berries are both effective for lowering the risk of dementia. These two apparently go along with regular exercise, which helps in getting blood flow to the brain.

Berries help in keeping up your antioxidants as Alzheimer's disease has a lot to do with oxidation and inflammation. Education adds up to the ability to get healthier habits and proper medical care.

Six thousand women in the women's health study, called nurses' health study, participated in the Harvard Study. The findings show that higher, larger consumption of berries was associated with significantly lower rates of cognitive decline even after considering the other confounding factors. The study further shows that the intake of blueberries, strawberries, and other berries can help to make your brain younger to up to two and a half years in terms of the slowing or declining cognitive function. The key nutrient that is believed to be responsible for the prevention of cognitive decline is Anthocyanin, which is present in berries at large quantities.

Education, on the other hand, indirectly contributes to making the brain healthy through giving a person better economic opportunity that yields to healthier habits and proper medical care. A theory related to the study says that, "learning generates more neural connections, allowing brains to compensate longer when memory and cognitive functions falter...", as reported in the New York Times. The representative survey of about ten thousand Americans aged sixty five and above in 2000 was compared with a similar group in 2010. The study shows that more college linked with less dementia.

Dementia is a chronic mental disorder that is hard to cure. However, you have the power to prevent it by making your present physicality healthy. So go work hard for your diploma and eat berries.