Never Too Late to Start Eating the MIND Diet That May Prevent Dementia: New Study of 90,000 People

Never Too Late to Start Eating the MIND Diet That May Prevent Dementia: New Study of 90,000 People

Never Too Late to Start Eating the MIND Diet That May Prevent Dementia: New Study of 90,000 People Monika Grabkowska for Unsplash+ It’s never too late to start eating better to prevent dementia, according a new analysis of research involving 90,000 adults. People over the age of 45 who followed a dietary pattern known as the MIND diet were “significantly” less likely to develop Alzheimer’s disease or related forms of dementia, said the University of Hawaii scientists. The MIND diet stands for Mediterranean Intervention for Neurodegenerative Delay, and was developed by the late Martha Clare Morris, ScD, a Rush University nutritional epidemiologist. It combines the traditional Mediterranean diet with the blood pressure-lowering DASH diet (Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension). It includes proven ‘brain-healthy’ foods such as leafy green vegetables, berries, nuts, fish, and olive oil. The study found that the MIND diet had a stronger and more consistent risk reduction relationship with deme…