People need to make their own choices, but when the Nanny State tells me what is good, or what is bad, I just roll my eyes: they have no idea, and the things on the good list are likely to end up on the bad list if you wait long enough.
That's also probably because there wasn't fast food joints everywhere back then, and food was usually made from scratch, and junk food wasn't prevalent in supermarkets back then.
Nicotine Patch May Improve Memory. How a smoking cessation treatment may be helping those with dementia
Read more: Nicotine Patch May Improve Memory | TIME.com
“While smoking is a public health scourge, the nicotine in cigarettes may have some promise in treating another growing problem, mild cognitive impairment (MCI), which can be a precursor to Alzheimer’s disease or other forms of dementia. A new study on nonsmokers found that six months of treatment with nicotine patches restored long-term memory performance to 46% of normal— while placebo patients experienced a 26% decline in recall during the same treatment period.”
http://healthland.time.com/2012/01/09/nicotine-patch-may-improve-memory/
Coffee, chocolate, nicotine, wine — all the things they told us are bad for us may actually be good for us.