Dietary patterns for cognitive health: bridging evidence across east and west

Dietary patterns for cognitive health: bridging evidence across east and west As populations age rapidly worldwide, identifying effective and scalable strategies to preserve cognitive health and prevent dementia has become an urgent public health priority.In this context, Jiang and colleagues provide a timely review of dietary patterns and cognitive health, with a particular emphasis on emerging evidence from the Eastern populations, including the Shanghai Cognitive Diet Pattern (SCDP) [1].Their Review arrives timely, as growing evidence suggests that dietary patterns, rather than individual nutrients and food, may provide a more informative framework for understanding the complex relationship between diet and cognitive health in aging.Over the past two decades, dietary pattern analyses have been developing rapidly.By capturing the synergistic interactions among foods and nutrients, dietary pattern analysis overcomes many of the