Dementia, the Mind diet reduces risks even if started late

Follow for years and with strict the 'Mind' diet can reduce the risk of developing various types of dementia, including Alzheimer's disease, although started in mature age. A long study, started in the 90s, of 215 thousand people of 5 different ethnic groups, all between 45 and 75 years old age and followed for decades, calculated the decrease in probability of severe cognitive decline between 9 and 25%, for who joined the nutritional program. Similar to the Mediterranean in the use of whole foods, vegetables, fruit, olive oil and little red meat, the Mind adds in particular the daily consumption of fruits of forest, especially strawberries and blueberries. And it keeps the salt consumption, such as the so-called 'Dash' diet, created by time for hypertension and other heart problems. The study by researchers from the University of Hawaii and Southern California, particularly highlights the excellent results obtained by participants 'initiated' to Mind in the middle age. At the beginning of the study, participants who were already following a Mind-type diet showed 9% less probability of developing dementia, but after 10 years, for for those who have always followed it, the risks have dropped by 25%. Song-Yi Park, associate professor at the University of Hawaii at Mānoa, author of the study, noted that "all diets Mediterraneans appear to benefit the brain, but only the 'Mind' It has been specifically designed for the well-being of mental functions". Each food in this diet has a score: e.g. for example eating strawberries twice a week or more is enough get 1 point, if the intake drops to just 1 time score drops to 0.5. And so on. Among the key foods vegetables in general and especially leafy vegetables are included greens and broccoli, fish, nuts, olive oil, grains whole grains, and lots of berries. As for cheeses, meat red, fried ones should not be eaten even once week.