Peanut butter and jelly sandwich for lunch

Peanut butter and jelly sandwich for lunch

Maybe you should eat a peanut butter and jelly sandwich for lunch and drink a glass of red wine with dinner. An antioxidant compound called resveratrol that is found in red grapes and peanuts and is already known to improve heart health, might also help prevent memory loss as we age. At least, it works in rats. Led by Ashok Shetty of Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine, the team found over a two-year period that aged rats who received resveratrol improved both spatial learning and memory, while rats that were not given the antioxidant experienced a marked decline in these functions. In addition, the resveratrol helped the rats grow and develop more neurons than the rats in the control group, as well as increase the blood flow in the brain and reduce inflammation in the hippocampus, a part of the brain that is responsible for memory and spatial navigation. Shetty said it's possible that resveratrol treatment during middle-age will not only prevent or delay changes in memory and mood but could also be used to treat Alzheimer's patients.