"Vitamin B12, Folic Acid May Help Improve Memory In Seniors"

The UK's Daily Mail (1/11, Bates) reports that according to a study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, "taking vitamin B12 and folic acid for two years improves both short and long-term memory" in seniors. After randomizing 700 seniors ranging in age from 60 to 74 "to take a daily dose of folic acid and vitamin B12, or placebo pills that resembled the vitamins," researchers found that "those who took the vitamins showed more, if modest, improvement in their scores on the memory tasks" than those taking placebo.

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