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Eating cheese, a daily glass of red wine and lamb once a week can stave off Alzheimer's disease even late in life, a study of Brits has shown. Researchers have found the best way to reduce the risk of dementia is by maintaining a healthy lifestyle and eating certain foods that increases the levels of proteins in the brain to protect it from damage. But too much salt was found to be the biggest contributor to impaired cognitive function if you were already at risk.

In the first of its kind study, cognitive ability can be improved at an older age by indulging in red wine, cheese and a weekly meal of lamb. The team at Iowa State University analysed nearly 1,800 Britons aged 46 to 77, comparing their diets with their abilities to think quickly and accurately across a decade. The participants were asked about their intake of fresh fruit, dried fruit, raw vegetables and salad, cooked vegetables, oily fish, lean fish, processed meat, poultry, beef, lamb, pork, cheese, bread, cereal, tea and coffee, beer and cider, red wine, white wine and champagne and spirits.



They also completed a Fluid Intelligence Test (FIT) as part of touchscreen questionnaire compiled between 2006 and 2010 and then in two follow-up assessments from 2012- 2013 and again between 2015- 2016). The test provides a snapshot of an individual's ability to "think on the fly." Cheese, by far, was shown to be the most protective food against age-related cognitive problems, even late into life.

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