Norman Swan

And we're out of date.

And also some new research on home cooking.

Your favourite topic.

So really interesting study is kind of what you'd want to believe.

There is a caveat in this sort of study, which is there's a long preliminary tail, if you like, or lead-in to dementia.

So you can have signs of dementia many years before you actually develop dementia.

So it could be, and this study really doesn't unpick that to the full extent, is that was it people who were not really heading for dementia, who tended to cook more because they were cognitively able to?

But there's plenty of other studies showing that it's not a bad thing to actually cook your own food.

I was looking this up just sort of to get some moral support for this kind of study.

There's an interesting French study showing, I mean, there's all sorts of collateral information.

It's really good to be cooking.

So this is a French study, again, following up a large group number of people over a period of time.

It's called the French Nutrient Santé Cohort.

Oh.

Cohort.

Not bad.

And they...

I think they probably say cohort in France, not encore.

Anyway, they looked at people who ate out, look at people who changed their diet at weekends and evenings.

And what they found was that out-of-home eaters had a lower dietary quality.