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Dementia: Dr Sara on benefits of being in nature

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Dementia – a general term for progressive brain decline – devastates families and heaps further pressure on overstretched healthcare systems. Given its impact, there is much impetus to find ways of warding off the threat. Research continues to throw up green shoots.

Mounting evidence suggests the foods you eat can provide a buffer against brain decline.

Mushrooms have shown promise in several studies.

In one notable study, published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, linked mushroom consumption to lower incidence of dementia.

“Few cohort studies have yet examined the relationship between mushroom consumption and incident dementia,” the researchers wrote in the journal.

Cohort studies are a type of longitudinal study—an approach that follows research participants over a period of time (often many years).

The researchers examined the relationship between mushroom consumption and incident dementia in a population of elderly Japanese subjects.

For the study, 13,230 individuals aged 65 years and over living in Ohsaki City, northeastern Japan, ambient weather were included.

The researchers compared daily mushroom consumption, other lifestyle factors, with dementia incidence.

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