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What you eat can affect how your brain functions and howquickly it ages.

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That’s why you want to see to it you’re regularly consuming foods that will benefit your brain.

At the beginning of the study, the participants were also free of dementia.

BothAlzheimer’s diseaseand vascular dementia were among the diagnoses.

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Isabelle Glans, research and doctoral student at Lund University, said in apress release.

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