A new study published by researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital indicates that increasing your intake of monounsaturated fats, like olive oil, can slow the aging process of the brain. The study compared dietary surveys from more than 6,000 women over age 65 with cognitive function tests and showed that the women who reported the highest saturated fat intake had the worst scores on memory and reasoning tests. The women with the highest monounsaturated fat intake had the best cognition test scores on average. The study author, Dr. Olivia Okereke, had this to say about monounsaturated fats like olive oil, “In general, when it comes to dietary fat, the message has been pretty consistent over time that those dietary fats that are beneficial for cardiovascular health might similarly be beneficial for brain health,” Read the full story here.
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