Cooking Once A Week Could Lower Dementia Risk, Study Finds

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Usually, for most things health-related, the answer is always hiding in the kitchen. And a latest study has shown that this could be true to cut down dementia risk as well. This new study from Japan suggests that cooking at home could be associated with a lower risk of developing dementia in older adults. The research, published in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, followed 10,978 people aged 65 and above for six years. During the study period, 1,195 participants developed dementia significant enough to require long-term care. Researchers found that older adults who cooked at home at least once a week had a lower risk than those who cooked less frequently.

The researchers used data from the Japan Gerontological Evaluation Study and looked at participants' cooking habits and cooking skills at the beginning of the study. Dementia cases were subsequently identified through Japan's public long-term-care insurance records. After accounting for demographic, socioeconomic and health-related factors, cooking at least once a week was associated with a 23% lower risk of dementia among men and a 27% lower risk among women, compared with cooking less than once a week.

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