Eating berries may activate the brain's natural housekeeper for healthy ageing
Tuesday, August 24, 2010 - 04:56
in Health & Medicine
Scientists today reported the first evidence that eating blueberries, strawberries, and acai berries may help the ageing brain stay healthy in a crucial but previously unrecognised way. Their study, presented at the 240th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society (ACS), concluded that berries, and possibly walnuts, activate the brain's natural 'housekeeper' mechanism, which cleans up and recycles toxic proteins linked to age-related memory loss and other mental decline...