Resolutions for better health Mid-year is as good as New Year for making a new you!

So when did your New Year resolutions end exactly? Most people’s have bitten the dust by March, perhaps to spring back in May, ready for beach body time, and then again in July for final panic mode! Here are a few which are almost certainly in most people’s top ten. Hopefully, one of them will get you re-started if you’ve flagged.

5 fruit and veg a day

Eating 5 fruit and vegetables a day. Fortunately, the shops are helping us to achieve that goal. But don’t think just 5 fruit and no vegetables is enough; a new study by Rush University Medical center in Chicago has concluded that eating 2+ vegetable a day can help slow down mental decline due to ageing. Those people who ate 2.8 servings of vegetables almost halved their rate of memory decline compared to people who ate less than 1 serving a day. According to the study, it is not too late to start, as older people who started the 2+ veg a day still showed significant delay in mental decline.

Another study has shown that turmeric can also slow mental decline. This is because it contains curcumin, a powerful anti-oxidant. Scientists at the National University of Singapore found that 60-93 year olds who ate curry containing turmeric performed better in mental tests than those who never or rarely ate curry. The incidence of Alzheimer’s in India amongst 70-79 year olds is four-fold less than in the USA.