Cognitive aging could be delayed by up to two and a half years in elderly people who consume greater amounts of the blueberries and strawberries, according to a study published in today’s journal of the American Neurological Association and Child Neurology Society. The research, from Harvard Medical School, used data from the Nurses’ Health Study — a cohort of 121,700 female, registered nurses between the ages of 30 and 55 who completed health and lifestyle questionnaires beginning in 1976. The... ...Read more »

Eating blueberries can guard against high blood pressure, according to new research by the University of East Anglia (UEA) and Harvard University. High blood pressure, or hypertension, is one of the major cardiovascular diseases worldwide. It leads to stroke and heart disease and costs more than $300 billion each year. Around a quarter of the adult population is affected globally, including 10 million people in the UK, over 2 million Australians and one in three adults in the United States. Published... ...Read more »

According to Oxford researchers working with colleagues in Norway, chocolate, wine and tea enhance cognitive performance. The team, from Oxford’s Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics and Norway, examined the relation between cognitive performance and the intake of three common foodstuffs that contain flavonoids (chocolate, wine, and tea) in 2,031 older people (aged between 70 and 74). Participants filled in information about their habitual food intake and underwent a battery of cognitive... ...Read more »