About the Author

David Fryxell

David A. Fryxell has been the author of Brain Power & Nutrition since its inception (2015), and Healthy-Aging Diet, since its inception with the 2017 edition. He has been a health writer and editor since 2004, including 12 years as managing editor of the Tufts University Health & Nutrition Letter and five years as co-author of Heart-Brain Diet. He currently contributes to the Women’s Nutrition Connection newsletter. He founded and edited Family Tree Magazine, was editor-in-chief of Writer’s Digest Magazine, was Writer’s Digest‘s Nonfiction columnist for more than a decade, and directed the Maui Writers Retreat. He is the author of seven books, most recently The Family Tree Guide to Scandinavian Genealogy and MicroHistory. He lives in Tucson, Arizona.

Articles by David Fryxell

Plant-Based Diet Benefits the Heart, Environment and More

By David Fryxell

The myriad health benefits of vegetables and other plant foods and/or concerns about animal welfare and the environment lead some people to choose a vegetarian dietary pattern. Plant-based diets are becoming more mainstream, and the 2015–2020 Dietary Guidelines for Americans includes a vegetarian eating pattern as one of its three … Read More

Natural Antidepressants to Try (and to Avoid)

By David Fryxell

Supplements making memory and cognitive claims may be marketed as beneficial for mood, depression, sleep quality, and “energy.” Other products focus primarily on these mental factors that affect mood and behavior, which in turn can indirectly affect cognition. The evidence for the effectiveness of these natural antidepressants is mixed, though … Read More

Dark Chocolate Benefits for Brain Health

By David Fryxell

The ancient Olmec, Mayan, and Aztec peoples were onto something about the benefits of chocolate when they began consuming it, mostly in the form of cocoa beverages, some 3,500 years ago. Today science is finding that phytochemical compounds called flavanols found in dark chocolate—the darker, the better—and cocoa have cardiovascular … Read More

Benefits of Berries on Brain Health

By David Fryxell

It’s no surprise that fruits and vegetables play a dominant role in brain-healthy patterns of eating, just as they do in healthy diets for your body as a whole. But it may be that eating fruits and vegetables helps protect your brain beyond general health benefits. Specific types of produce … Read More

The MIND Diet’s Benefit on Brain Health

By David Fryxell

A hybrid of the DASH and Mediterranean diets—appropriately called the MIND diet —that factors in the latest research on cognition and nutrition may protect memory and thinking even better. Martha Clare Morris, ScD, of Rush University, and colleagues developed the MIND (Mediterranean-DASH Intervention for Neurodegenerative Delay) diet score, which particularly … Read More
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