Pre-reading questions:
- What is your favorite food?
- Do you like eating vegetables and fruits?
Our brains become smaller as we get older. A new study found that if you eat more Mediterranean food, your brain will stay healthy as you grow old. Your brain will also not grow smaller as fast as those who don’t eat as much Mediterranean food. The study found that people in their mid-70s who eat more fruits, vegetables and olive oil lose less brain mass. On the other hand, people who eat more fried food, red meat and cheese, lose more brain mass as they get older. The researchers for this project say that this is a very important study. The same researchers also said that more studies on brain health and growing old must be done.
Vocabulary:
Mediterranean [adjective] – relating to countries around the Mediterranean Sea (Albania, Algeria, Croatia, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece, Israel,etc)
researcher [noun] – someone whose job is to study a subject carefully
True or False:
- Our brains grow bigger as we grow older.
- Mediterranean food is good for the brain.
- More fruits, vegetables and olive oil are not good for the brain.
- Red meat and cheese are not good for the brain.
- The researchers of the study said that more research on brain health and and growing old must be done.