Published: 3:15pm, 20 Mar 2025
Updated: 3:15pm, 20 Mar 2025
Maintaining a low waist-to-hip ratio in middle age could mean a better chance at staying mentally sharp in later life, researchers have concluded after studying several decades of health data for around 1,200 people.
The team of British, German, French and Dutch doctors found that a healthy diet in middle age, coupled with a low waist-to-hip ratio – a quick measure of fat distribution that may help indicate a person’s overall health – to be “associated with better brain and cognitive health in older age”.
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