A groundbreaking 15-year study has confirmed what many nutritionists have long suspected: diet plays a critical role in how the brain and body age, especially when it comes to the onset of dementia and other chronic illnesses.
“Our results show how important diet is in influencing the development of multimorbidity in ageing populations,” said Adrián Carballo-Casla, co-author of the study and postdoctoral researcher at the Aging Research Centre at the Karolinska Institutet.
The results point to a specific category of food, defined by high levels of processed ingredients. These are items most people wouldn’t consume if they weren’t artificially packaged and made palatable with added colorings and flavors.
