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Volume Three, Issue One
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Featured Article: Brain-Gain
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High-dose folic acid supplements - providing as much of the nutrients as 2.5 pounds of strawberries - might help slow the cognitive decline of aging. So says a Dutch study that's the first to show a vitamin may really improve memory. The research, unveiled at a recent meeting of Alzheimer's researchers, adds to mounting evidence that a diet higher in folate is important for a variety of health effects. It's already proven to reduce birth defects, and research suggests it helps ward off heart disease and strokes, too. The new study doesn't show folic acid could prevent Alzheimer's - the people who tested the vitamin didn't have symptoms of that disease. |
But as people age, some decline in memory and other brain functions is inevitable. Taking 800 micrograms of folic acid a day slowed that brain drain, reported lead researcher Jane Durga of Wageningen University in the Netherlands. In the study, 818 cognitively healthy people ages 50 to 75 swallowed either folic acid of a placebo pill for three years.
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