date:Apr 01, 2012
ctions. The study looked at 1,575 individuals with an average age of 67.
People with lower blood levels of omega-3 fatty acids had lower brain volumes that were equivalent to about two years of structural brain aging, said Zaldy S. Tan, author of the study and staff member at the Easton Center for Alzheimers Disease Research and the Division of Geriatrics at the University of California at Los Angeles.
Those with the lowest levels of omega-3s also had the poorest performance on visual memory a