MIND Your Diet, and Protect against Alzheimer’s
MIND Your Diet, and Protect against Alzheimer’s – If you want to protect your mind, be mindful of what you eat.
Doctors say that a diet rich in fruits, vegetables and lean protein that includes a little wine can lower the risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease. The researchers have aptly named their diet the “MIND diet” — it is a hybrid of the Mediterranean diet and the DASH (Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension) diet.
MIND stands for Mediterranean-DASH Intervention for Neurodegenerative Delay. In a decade-long study of about 1,000 people, those who followed this diet reduced their risk of Alzheimer’s disease by 53 percent, compared with people who did not follow it, according to the researchers. Even the people who only casually followed the diet had a lower risk of Alzheimer’s, the researchers added.
Alzheimer’s disease, the most common form of dementia, affects more than 40 million people globally, according to Alzheimer’s Disease International. The most common symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease include memory lapses, disorientation, trouble speaking and writing, and personality changes.
The study has been published this month in the journal Alzheimer’s & Dementia.
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