Having a senior moment? A new study suggests that cutting
calories may help. Cutting down on calories could help women
retain their memory, according to a study conducted in Germany.
Older adults who cut down on the amount of calories they consume
get a two-for-one special: weight loss and better memory.
Healthy women ranging in age from 50 to 80 who reduced their
calorie intake by 30 percent for three months not only lost
weight, but their scores on verbal memory tests also shot up by
20 percent, according to a study conducted by Dr. Agnes Floel
and her colleagues from the University of Munster in Germany,
who published the results in the January issue of the journal
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. "The results
seem pretty dramatic," said Mark P. Mattson, a senior
investigator at the National Institute on Aging (NIA) in
Bethesda, Maryland. "Even though the number of subjects in the
study was not really high, they had really high, statistically
significant improvements in their performance on