Your entire body expends energy to function, but your brain really comes out on top when it comes to nutrient intake. The healthier you eat, the better for your body, but also for your brain, to stay sharp and maintain good mental health.
Top Belgian neurologist Steven Laureys advocates healthy eating according to the Mediterranean diet and also a varied diet. In other words: only eating so-called superfoods makes little sense, it’s about the interaction of different foods.
‘Healthy foods, such as a Mediterranean diet, can make your brain up to seven years younger’
“Nuts, fruits and vegetables, fish, whole grain products and olive oil have a positive influence on healthy aging, both physically and mentally,” says Laureys in Het Laatste Nieuws. “More so: studies show that healthy food, such as a Mediterranean diet , can make your brain up to seven years younger. In those studies, people are always divided into three groups: those who eat very healthy, those who live on fast food, and those who are somewhere in between. And then it turns out that there is a significant link between what the subjects eat, their cognitive functioning and the development of dementia.”
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