CogMission Blog
Healthy recipes and blogs about food.Welcome to the CogMission Blog. Here you will find blogs on the latest research and news, blogs from members of the CogMission team and delicious, healthy recipes.
Why Should You Follow A Mediterranean Diet to Prevent Cognitive Decline?
Recently, articles promoting the Mediterranean diet to prevent cognitive decline have been making a bit of impact on the news in the UK Earlier in the month, news outlets picked up on the story that the Mediterranean Diet is linked to preventing Alzheimer’s, based...
Fasting Improves Cognitive Function
Why it makes sense that fasting enhances cognition Our ancestors were adapted to an environment of food scarcity. It has only been in the last century that people are eating three refined meals a day plus snacks in between, all the while becoming more...
Exercising the body also helps work the grey cells!
When we exercise the body, we also exercise the brain Several studies have shown that with moderate daily exercise we can greatly affect cognitive function and slow down cognitive decline. A very exciting study from Finland found that physical activity helps protect...
Keeping the brain healthy with phytonutrients
Eating the right foods can reduce mental decline An international team of researchers found that seniors who consumed the most nutritious food had a nearly 25 percent reduction in the risk of mental decline compared those with poor diets, according to the study...