{"id":9231,"date":"2006-08-05T16:59:55","date_gmt":"2006-08-05T23:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2006\/08\/05\/curry-and-cognition.html"},"modified":"2006-08-05T16:59:55","modified_gmt":"2006-08-05T23:59:55","slug":"curry_and_cogni","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/08\/05\/curry_and_cogni.html","title":{"rendered":"Curry and Cognition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It appears for once I am in luck.  While many foods that are supposedly Good For You are not on my preference list, I looooove <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg19125635.500-popular-curry-spice-is-a-brain-booster.html\" target=\"_blank\">curry<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Call it yellow ginger, haldi, turmeric or E100, the yellow root of <i>Curcuma longa<\/i>, a staple ingredient in curry, is turning out to be gratifyingly healthy. Now Tze-Pin Ng and colleagues at the National University of Singapore have discovered that curry eating seems to boost brain power in elderly people.<\/p>\n<p>Curcumin, a constituent of turmeric, is an antioxidant, and reports have suggested that it inhibits the build-up of amyloid plaques in people with Alzheimer&#8217;s. Ng&#8217;s team looked at the curry-eating habits of 1010 Asian people unaffected by Alzheimer&#8217;s and aged between 60 and 93, and compared their performance in a standard test of cognitive function, the Mini Mental State Examination. Those people who consumed curry &#8220;occasionally&#8221; (once or more in 6 months but less than once a month) and &#8220;often&#8221; (more than once<br \/>\na month) had better MMSE results than those who only ate curry &#8220;never or rarely&#8221; (<i>American Journal of Epidemiology<\/i>, DOI: 10.1093\/aje\/kwj267).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What is remarkable is that apparently one needs only to consume curry once in a while for the better cognitive performance to be evidenced,&#8221; says Ng, who says he wants to confirm the results, possibly in a controlled clinical trial comparing curcumin and a placebo.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Not<\/em> that I&#8217;m elderly, mind you.  But it never hurts to practice good eating habits early &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>(And, for the record, I call it turmeric.)<\/p>\n<p><small><\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2006\/08\/04\/curry_as_brain_food.html\" target=\"_blank\">BoingBoing<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It appears for once I am in luck. While many foods that are supposedly Good For You are not on my preference list, I looooove curry. Call it yellow ginger,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,7,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fourth-estate","category-health","category-science"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":48397,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/11\/17\/margies-kitchen-spinach-wrapped-chicken-with-curry-sauce.html","url_meta":{"origin":9231,"position":0},"title":"Margie&#8217;s Kitchen: Spinach Wrapped Chicken With Curry Sauce","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 17-Nov-14 5:23am","format":false,"excerpt":"Margie's Kitchen: Spinach Wrapped Chicken With Curry Sauce http:\/\/bit.ly\/1BJ9jJY #recipe View on Twitter","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~Tweets&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~Tweets","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/tweets"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":6214,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/04\/26\/currying_favor.html","url_meta":{"origin":9231,"position":1},"title":"Currying favor","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 26-Apr-04 11:36am","format":false,"excerpt":"There are indications that curry may protect the brain against oxidative damage. 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