Salon.com > Mary A. Fischer http://www.salon.com Sun, 19 May 2013 18:14:48 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Forgot your keys? It could be your diet http://www.salon.com/2012/09/21/forgot_your_keys_it_could_be_your_diet/ http://www.salon.com/2012/09/21/forgot_your_keys_it_could_be_your_diet/#comments Fri, 21 Sep 2012 17:51:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=13018271 Pacific Standard Yet another reason not to overeat: According to a recent study from the Mayo Clinic, there is a link between memory loss and a high-calorie diet. People over 70 who consumed more than 2,143 calories a day doubled their risk of memory loss and mild cognitive impairment — a stage of decline beyond normal age-related changes when memory, language, and thinking start slipping.

“We observed a dose-response pattern, which simply means the higher the amount of calories consumed each day, the higher the risk of mild cognitive impairment,” explained study author Yonas E. Geda, a neurologist and psychiatrist with Mayo Clinic in Arizona. There is good news, though. People with diets that provide between 600 and 2,143 calories per day showed no memory decline over the 8-year study.

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