According to the latest studies by the German Researchers, eating less would help you to remember more in elderly people. They have also found that memory and the thought processes are improved in the healthy, overweight subjects who would cut their calorie intake by almost 30% in a mere three month period. The study also suggests that the restriction in the calories may perhaps boost memory and the cognition by reducing the insulin resistance and the inflammation that may be linked to the age-related decline. They also added that the improvements in the memory could be really important as the losses in the memory could be an early indication of the Alzheimer’s disease.

The research also surveyed whether the dietary increase in the unsaturated fats such as the omega-3 fatty acids which is found in a few kinds of fish would give out the same benefits or not. Even though these healthy fatty acids have spurred cognitive performance in mice, the research failed to notice the similar effects in human beings. The results of such a study were published in the online edition of the National Academy of Sciences. Those men and women who participated in the survey were not told what to eat, however they were advised to cut down the portions and eat as much as 1200 calories daily.

Those people lost about five pounds and those who stuck to the dietary recommendations lost as much as eight pounds and the weight loss demonstrated a lot of improvement in the memory of these old men and women.