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   Meet The ‘MIND’ Diet (It Slashes Alzheimer's Risk By 35%)   
      
   Jenna Birch   
   March 18, 2015   
      
      
   Meet The ‘MIND’ Diet (It Slashes Alzheimer's Risk By 35%)   
      
   The MIND diet promotes consumption of berries — particularly blueberries and   
   strawberries. (Photo: Flickr/storebukkebruse)   
      
   There’s a rising interest in how nutrition fuels cognition and memory   
   function long-term — and now, researchers are on to a winning dietary   
   formula. The bonus? Noshing your way to brain benefits doesn’t involve   
   following a strict regimen.   
      
   According to a new study published in Alzheimer’s & Dementia: The Journal of   
   the Alzheimer’s Association, the so-called “MIND diet” could slash   
   Alzheimer’s risk by 35 percent, even if a person only moderately adheres to   
   the eating plan.    
      
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   Developed by nutritional epidemiologists at Chicago’s Rush University   
   Medical Center, the regimen’s full name is the Mediterranean-DASH   
   Intervention for Neurodegenerative Delay (MIND) diet.    
      
   The MIND diet consists of:    
      
   At least three servings of whole grains a day   
   A salad and one other vegetable a day   
   A glass of wine a day   
   A serving of nuts a day   
   Beans every other day   
   Poultry and berries at least twice a week   
   Fish at least once a week   
   Limit unhealthy-brain foods, especially butter (less than one tablespoon a   
   day), cheese, and fast or fried food   
   To study its effects, the scientists took data on the food intake of 923   
   Chicago-dwellers between ages 58 and 98 over the course of a decade.    
      
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   They used questionnaires to determine just how closely participants’ eating   
   habits mimicked one of three diet plans: the Mediterranean diet, the DASH   
   diet, or the MIND diet. The researchers also measured the incidence of   
   Alzheimer’s over a 4.5-year    
   follow-up period, as part of an ongoing research project at Rush to examine   
   facets of cognitive health.   
      
   All of the diets seemed to be effective in reducing Alzheimer’s risk. Those   
   who followed DASH saw a 39 percent drop in risk, those who followed the   
   Mediterranean diet saw a 54 percent drop, and those who adhered to the MIND   
   plan saw a 53 percent    
   decrease in cognitive decline.   
      
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   The biggest finding, though? Those who only moderately stuck to the   
   Mediterranean and DASH diets did not see their Alzheimer’s risk decrease.   
   Those who moderately followed MIND, on the other hand, still saw risk drop by   
   35 percent.   
      
   Related: Early Signs Of Alzheimer’s Disease Found In Patients As Young As 20    
      
   “I think that will motivate people [to try it],” says Rush nutritional   
   epidemiologist Martha Clare Morris, PhD, in a statement.   
      
   As the name suggests, the MIND diet is a hybrid between the Mediterranean and   
   DASH diets, which are both backed by the National Institute of Health as plans   
   that offer real, research-based benefits to those utilizing them —   
   everything from reducing    
   risk of heart disease and stroke to lowering blood pressure.   
      
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   There are 15 dietary components to the MIND diet, including 10 that are   
   considered “healthy brain” food groups, and five that are considered   
   “unhealthy-brain” food groups. The point is to eat more from the healthy   
   groups, and less from the    
   unhealthy groups — with stricter adherence to this rule leading to greater   
   benefit. The healthy groups are green leafy vegetables, other vegetables,   
   nuts, berries, beans, whole grains, fish, poultry, olive oil and wine. The   
   unhealthy groups are red    
   meats, butter and margarine, cheese, pastries and sweets, and fast food or   
   fried food.    
      
   Related: 5 Ways to Lower Your Risk for Alzheimer’s Disease   
      
   Notably, whereas the Mediterranean and DASH diets both emphasize fruit   
   consumption in general, MIND encourages berry intake in particular, especially   
   cognitive-boosting blueberries and strawberries.    
      
   In the study, the longer men and women followed the MIND diet, the greater   
   their protection against cognitive decline. “As is the case with many   
   health-related habits, including physical exercise, you’ll be healthier if   
   you’ve been doing the right    
   thing for a long time,” says Morris.   
      
   Past studies have also shown the DASH and Mediterranean diet plans to be tied   
   to a lower risk of dementia, which, as the current study indicates, seems to   
   be true. The results of the MIND diet study also offer strong preliminary   
   evidence that a    
   combination of facets of the two regimens hold cognitive benefits — and   
   luckily, it’s also easier to follow than the Mediterranean or DASH plans.   
      
   Five million people in the United States currently suffer from Alzheimer’s,   
   and that number is expected to jump to 16 million by 2050 — which is even   
   more reason to adopt these dietary practices now.   
      
   Although more studies are needed to confirm the brain-boosting benefits of the   
   MIND diet, science has already shown us the health benefits of the   
   brain-boosting foods, even beyond cognition. “It is hard to come up with a   
   potential downside to adopting    
   these dietary habits,” Morris says.   
      
   Up Next: The Diet That’s Better For Your Heart Than Exercise   
      
      
      
   https://www.yahoo.com/health/meet-the-mind-diet-it-slashes-alzhe   
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