So what healthy diet does your doctor have you on while in the hospital? I didn't consider any of the meals I had in the hospital healthy.
http://dgnews.docguide.com/healthy-diet-linked-lower-risk-memory-thinking-decline?
People who eat a healthy diet with lots of fruits and vegetables,
nuts, fish, moderate alcohol use, and not much red meat may be less
likely to experience declines in their memory and thinking skills,
according to a study published in the May 6, 2015, online issue of the
journal Neurology.
“Adoption of a healthy diet probably begins early in life, and a
healthy diet might also go along with adoption of other healthy
behaviours,” said Andrew Smyth, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario.
For the study, 27,860 people in 40 countries were followed for an
average of about 5 years. All participants were aged 55 years or older
and had diabetes or a history of heart disease, stroke or peripheral
artery disease. People who had experienced a recent stroke, congestive
heart failure, and other serious conditions were not included in the
study.
Participants’ thinking and memory skills were tested at the start of
the study, after two years and after about five years. Participants were
asked at the beginning of the study how often they ate certain types of
foods, including fruits and vegetables, nuts and soy proteins, whole
grains, deep fried foods and drank alcohol, as well as the ratio of fish
to meat and eggs in their diet.
The study participants were followed until they experienced a
myocardial infarction (MI), stroke, hospitalisation for congestive heart
failure or death from cardiovascular disease or until the end of the
study.
The thinking and memory tests yielded total scores with a maximum of
30 points. Participants were considered to have declined in their skills
if their scores dropped by 3 or more points during the study. A total
of 4,699 people had a decline in their thinking and memory skills.
People with the healthiest diets were 24% less likely to have
cognitive decline than people with the least healthy diets. Among the
5,687 people with the healthiest diet, 782 (14%) had cognitive decline,
compared with 987 (18%) of the 5,459 people with the least healthy
diets.
The results were the same when researchers accounted for other
factors that could affect the results, such as physical activity, high
blood pressure, and history of cancer.
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