30/12/2025
Lifelong diet quality is strongly linked to cognitive ability and dementia risk in older age.
A new longitudinal analysis reveals a significant link between lifelong diet quality and cognitive abilities in older age, predicting higher cognitive function and lower dementia risk for those with consistent healthy eating habits from childhood. The research indicates that individuals who maintain lower quality dietary habits from childhood into adulthood may face a higher likelihood of cognitive struggles and dementia in later years.
What do we learn? As we get older, those of us who have invested in our health since early age will fare better at every stage of life from middle age onwards.
“Associations between diet quality and global cognitive ability across the life course: Longitudinal analysis of the 1946 British Birth Cohort,” Kelly C. Cara, Tammy M. Scott, Mei Chung, and Paul F. Jacques.
