Your patient eats salads every day. Exercises three times…

Your patient eats salads every day. Exercises three times a week. Follows the Mediterranean diet. And still, their focus is slipping. Their processing speed declining. Their dementia risk quietly climbing. Why? That packet of biscuits at 4 PM. The cola with dinner. The ready meal twice a week. A new Monash University study of 2,100 adults just confirmed something that should change how every doctor counsels patients on brain health: Eating more ultra-processed foods was linked to poorer attention and slower mental processing, even among people with otherwise healthy diets. The part that stops you co