Cheese and red wine makes smart

Say wine, snacks or haute cuisine and the gourmands at online food magazine FavorFlav know where to drink, how to eat it and what to cook. This time our cheffies serve you: cheese and red wine makes you smart.

Wow, that's good news: researchers at Iowa State University have looked at data searching for certain correlations between food and drink intake and cognitive decline. And what turned out: there is a positive relationship between consuming cheese and brain function and red wine and cognitive functions.

So we are doing a happy dance around the room, straight towards the cheese board and the bottle of wine, because this is indeed a piece of top news to end the year well. Of course, there are caveats that we will discuss shortly, but first let's toast, okay?

Food and drink for a good research purpose
The research was published in November 2020 in the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease and is described on the website Science Daily, where scientific news and research are summarized. Participants were monitored in different life stages and their eating and drinking habits were tracked and compared with the results of various cognitive tests.

Cheese please
For the exact figures, you would have to read the entire report, but I can report that the research shows that cheese offers a surprisingly high level of protection against age-related cognitive problems. Science Daily Tell us more!. Also at a later age, cheese would help against the decline of memory, attention, and concentration. So you don't have to have started early, and that's good news for the young people who still need to get used to the smell of the best stinky cheeses Pour it in.

And what about that red wine? A small glass of it also turned out to be associated with improving cognitive functions such as memory, attention, and concentration at a later age. Is that worth celebrating? For example with
a glass of Sangiovese: nice and clear and refined. Of course, we are all smart enough to know that this doesn't mean you should now sit down every day with a complete cheese board and a whole bottle of wine. Anyway, it turned out that we as a nation did not quite estimate what the.

Butttt...
amount of 'one glass of wine' actually means, so first we need to recalibrate in that area.‘ And with a cheese board every day, you obviously get way too much saturated fat. But proving that in small amounts these two pleasures in life not only improve your mood but also your brain function is, of course, one of the best things that could happen to humanity in 2020.

red wine and cheese.