Alzheimer’s and other related forms of dementia are increasingly prevalent in much of Western society, as people live longer. A lot of attention has been paid to how genetics influence our predisposition to Alzheimer’s. But Doctor Lisa Mosconi says there’s one key component of our environment that we are just beginning to connect more strongly to brain health - eating. "Nowadays there's more of an understanding that your lifestyle really plays a very big role in what happens to you over time...and that the foods you eat affect the way you think - as well as the way you look," explains Mosconi, who is associate director of the Alzheimer's Prevention Clinic at Weill Cornell Medicall College/New York-Presbyterian Hospital. "But as a society, we tend to focus on the way we look and we're less aware that we feed our bodies and our brains at the same time." Dr. Mosconi holds Ph.D’s in neuroscience and nuclear medicine and is author of the recent book, Brain Food: The Surprising Science of
↧