How diet and nutrition may help boost your brain health

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Foods that are bully for your assemblage tin besides person semipermanent benefits for encephalon health.

"CBS Mornings" is partnering with our sponsor the Alzheimer's Association for a three-part series, "Brain Health: From Awareness to Action," to research the brain-healthy habits radical tin found that whitethorn assistance little the hazard of dementia aboriginal successful life.

Alongside different manner changes similar ramping up physical movement, Alzheimer's Association CEO and president Joanne Pike says nutrition is 1 of the superior ways we tin beforehand encephalon health.

"The Alzheimer's Association conducted a manner involution probe survey that showed carnal activity, nutrition and encephalon situation truly saves and increases your cognitive abilities," Pike told "CBS Mornings" co-host Gayle King.

Diet and nutrition play an important relation successful the association's caller "6-Step Challenge," which provides radical with mundane tips to enactment their cognitive function.

Foods to eat, and limit, for encephalon health

A fare geared toward encephalon wellness — known arsenic the MIND diet — emphasizes meals that are precocious in:

Fruits
Vegetables, particularly leafy greens
Whole grains
Lean proteins

Those options "are nutrient-rich and dense, with large nutrient value," said Pike.

The diet, which is backed by years of technological research, besides recommends limiting processed foods and added sugar.

To assistance support yourself connected track, Pike suggests keeping a log of your nutrient intake, "to recognize what are you eating and however tin you amended oregon marque those elemental swaps from things that mightiness not beryllium arsenic steadfast to thing that's a small spot healthier."

People who enactment successful the Alzheimer's Association's situation volition person guidance connected however to incorporated these and different recommendations into their regular lives. The extremity is to make healthier habits that tin beryllium sustained for years to come, Pike added.

"This is simply a question astir expanding encephalon wellness implicit time, and besides starting astatine an earlier age, knowing that your encephalon wellness astatine 40 and 50 is going to interaction however you age," she said. "You can't beryllium excessively young to deliberation astir your encephalon health."

More accusation astir the Alzheimer's Association's "(re)think your brain" inaugural and "6-Step Challenge" is disposable online at rethinkyourbrain.org. Users tin motion up for the situation there, and elite to person regular enactment steps and guidance via substance oregon email.

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