ULTRAPROCESSED FOODS AND COGNITIVE FUNCTIONING IN OLDER ADULTS
Elayna Seago, Benjamin Katz · 2023
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Elayna Seago and Benjamin Katz link diet to thinking in older adults in this two thousand twenty-three study. Intake of ultra-processed food is rising worldwide, and past work tied diet patterns to thinking outcomes without pinning down which skills are involved. The team drew on two Health and Retirement Study sources: the Harmonized Cognitive Assessment Protocol and a health care and nutrition study with a food questionnaire. Foods were classed as ultra-processed under the NOVA system.
Tests that held age, gender, and self-rated health fixed compared thinking across groups by ultra-processed intake. Processing speed stood out: it was the skill most closely tied to ultra-processed intake. Other measures and most recall measures showed no such tie. The authors give these findings as a sharper map of how ultra-processed diets track with thinking, and a path toward work on how the link works.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Elayna Seago, Benjamin Katz |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2023 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 2 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |