Salmon and Coffee

I recently came across an article that was titled “Salmon and Coffee – for Ultimate Brain Power”, which discussed how certain foods and drinks can sharpen our memory. A study, which included more than 3000 men and women, was conducted at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago and researchers found that fish can help prevent memory loss. The study showed that “people who ate fish at least once a week had a 10 percent slower decline compared with those who did not eat fish”. This is because of the omega-3 fatty acids which are the good fats found in fish. The article mentioned that some of the best foods for omega-3 are salmon, anchovies, rainbow trout, pacific oysters, flaxseed, walnuts, canola oil and soybeans. The article then started to discuss the affects that coffee has on your memory. A study was done at the University of Innsbruck in Austria, which used functional magnetic resonance imaging, or fMRI, to examine brain activity of people working on a memory task while drinking coffee, and while not drinking coffee. The study showed that caffeine drastically improved the memory skills of those people that drank coffee. I thought that the article was interesting and provided information that can help us all improve our memory.