Chicago researchers followed 3,300 adults for 6 years for the popcorn study.
The study shows that a bag of popcorn a day reduces the risk of dementia.
Lygia Alexandrescu, nutritionist: “All this leads to a decrease in the stress hormone.”
A bag of popcorn a day reduces the risk of dementia. That’s according to Chicago researchers from Rush University who followed 3,300 adults for six years to reach this conclusion.
They found that those who ate more whole grains per day – such as lightly salted popcorn or quinoa – experienced a reduction in their cognitive scores.
“Indeed, if we talk about popcorn, we are talking about a certain favorite and then it seems that the ingestion of corn, which does not have gluten, the presence of a moderate amount of salt, but which, nevertheless, to exist, to give good taste, all these they lead to a decrease in the stress hormone, cordisol, and in this way we manage to oxidize less cholesterol and reduce the risk of dementia”, explained Lygia Alexandrescu, nutritionist, to Aleph News.
“We mean the level of LDL cholesterol, in the case of small vessels, on the small cerebral vessels. Just the nibbling sensation of something a little salty, greasy, but high in saturated fat, all of which seem to help increase serotonin levels and inhibit the stress hormone, all of which, over time, we mean small amounts of course , per 3 ounces, as the study says, meaning somewhere around 90 grams, so not very large amounts. The grain being whole, after all, corn being whole, and especially not having gluten, again helps to clean the blood vessels and clean blood vessels means a low risk of senile dementia, especially early,” added Lygia Alexandrescu.
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