MIAMI: Eating fish once a week could protect against the onset of dementia, new research suggests.
Post mortems on almost 300 pensioners found those who regularly ate seafood had healthier brains when they died.
Dr Ondine van de Rest, of Wageningen University in Holland, said: “This is the first study in which it was possible to conduct research on the presence of markers of dementia and Alzheimer’s disease in the actual brains of test subjects.
“As such, it enabled us to objectively view the association with fish consumption.”
The association was found in carriers of a gene known as APOE E4 which puts them at greater of developing Alzheimer’s.