PHOENIX: “You don’t need to know much about nutrition to make sure you get plenty of antioxidants, you just need to eat a variety of colours – ideally five or six different coloured foods or shades of colour at each meal,” Ngaire Hobbins says.
So how can we improve our chances avoiding it?
Genes, luck (and dodging head injuries) all influence our odds of developing dementia, but there’s also a lot we can do to reduce the risk ourselves – and the younger we start the better says dietitian Ngaire Hobbins, a lecturer with the University of Tasmania’s Wicking Dementia Research and Education Centre.
She’s the author of Eat to Cheat Dementia, a new book that explains how to keep your brain in peak condition – as well as how to support it if you or someone close to you has a diagnosis of dementia…