Fish may keep the brain healthy

Eating several servings of tuna or other broiled fish may be one way to keeping your brain healthy into old age, a new study suggests. Researchers say that in a study of more than 3,500 people, those who ate three or more servings of tuna or other oily fish per week had a 26 percent reduced chance of having small brain lesions. These lesions--called silent brain infarcts--are linked to stroke and dementia. And researchers say that those who ate broiled or baked fish regularly also had fewer changes in the white matter of their brains.

(OurAlzheimer's.com) UPDATED 08/07/2008
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