The Mediterranean diet may protect your aging brain. If you eat a diet that is high in nuts, olive oil, fish, and legumes you could reverse your brain’s age. “Researchers found that among 684 elderly people with an average age of 80, those who stuck more closely to a Mediterranean diet…the difference in average brain size was 13.11 milliliters, or the equivalent to five years of aging, the authors reported.” While researchers are not sure why the Mediterranean diet provides the benefits it does, multiple studies have shown its beneficial effects on heart disease, breast cancer, and now brain health.  

Your survival rate of heart surgery may be higher and your recovery rate faster when you are married. A recent study showed that people who were unmarried had a 40% increased risk of death or slow recovery. The head of heart transplantation at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Dr. Ashish Shah, said: “‘There’s always been the feeling that people who have [a person] that is supporting them tend to do better,” Shah told ABC News. “Most heart surgeons would agree that emotional stressors will complicate operations.”’ There was no definitive proof one the idea of love and support in married patients versus divorced, single, or widowed patients, but the next step in the study is to understand how help and support can be provided to those that are not married for better health results

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