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   The 10 foods that HALVE the risk of Alzheimer's and the 5 that harm the brain:   
   Stock up on berries, salad and wine - but avoid cheese, pastries and sweets   
      
   By Madlen Davies for MailOnline   
   13:42 30 Mar 2015, updated 22:55 30 Mar 2015   
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   Called the 'Mediterranean-DASH Intervention for Neurodegenerative Delay'   
   Diet even reduces Alzheimer's risk by 35% if not meticulously followed    
   Includes 10 healthy food groups like fish, poultry, olive oil, beans and nuts   
   Involves avoiding unhealthy brain foods like cheese, butter and sweets    
   A new diet could more than halve a person's risk of developing Alzheimer's   
   disease, according to new research.   
      
   Experts said the diet, known by the acronym MIND, could reduce the risk of the   
   illness even if it not meticulously followed.   
      
   The 'Mediterranean-DASH Intervention for Neurodegenerative Delay' (MIND) diet   
   includes at least three daily servings of wholegrains and salad  - along with   
   an extra vegetable and a glass of wine.   
      
   The new diet could more than halve a person's risk of developing Alzheimer's   
   disease, new research has found, and even has an effect when a person doesn't   
   follow it meticulously	+8   
   The new diet could more than halve a person's risk of developing Alzheimer's   
   disease, new research has found, and even has an effect when a person doesn't   
   follow it meticulously   
   These 'brain-healthy foods' lowered the risk of Alzheimer's by 53 per cent in   
   those who stuck to the diet rigidly.   
      
   For those that followed it moderately well, it lowered the risk by about 35   
   per cent.   
      
   Professor Martha Morris, a nutritional epidemiologist of the Rush University   
   Medical Centre in Chicago, said: 'One of the more exciting things about this   
   is that people who adhered even moderately to the MIND diet had a reduction in   
   their risk for    
   Alzheimer's disease.   
      
   'I think that will motivate people.'   
      
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   Professor Morris and her colleagues developed the MIND diet based on years of   
   past research about what foods and nutrients have good and bad effects on the   
   functioning of the brain.   
      
   This is the first study to relate the MIND diet to Alzheimer's disease.   
      
   'I was so very pleased to see the outcome we got from the new diet,' she said.   
      
   The MIND diet is a hybrid of the Mediterranean and DASH (Dietary Approaches to   
   Stop Hypertension) diets, both of which have been found to reduce the risk of   
   cardiovascular conditions, like high blood pressure, heart attack and stroke.   
      
   GOOD AND BAD FOODS FOR THE BRAIN   
      
   Wine is a 'healthy brain food', researchers said	+8   
   Wine is a 'healthy brain food', researchers said   
   10 HEALTHY BRAIN FOODS:   
      
   Green leafy vegetables   
      
   Other vegetables   
      
   Nuts   
      
   Berries   
      
   Beans   
      
   Wholegrains   
      
   Fish    
      
   Poultry   
      
   Olive oil    
      
   Wine   
      
       
      
   5 UNHEALTHY BRAIN FOODS:    
      
   Red meats   
      
   Butter and margarine   
      
   Cheese   
      
   Pastries and sweets   
      
   Fried or fast food    
      
   Some researchers have found that the two older diets provide protection   
   against dementia as well.   
      
   In the latest study, the MIND diet was compared with the two other diets.   
      
   People with high adherence to the DASH and Mediterranean diets also had   
   reductions in Alzheimer's disease-- 39 per cent with the DASH diet and 54 per   
   cent with the Mediterranean diet.   
      
   However, the diets had negligible benefits when people only adhered to it   
   moderately.   
      
   Professor Morris added that the MIND diet is also easier to follow than the   
   Mediterranean diet, which calls for daily consumption of fish and three to   
   four daily servings of fruits and vegetables.   
      
   The MIND diet has 15 components, including 10 'brain-healthy food groups' --   
   green leafy vegetables, other vegetables, nuts, berries, beans, whole grains,   
   fish, poultry, olive oil and wine.   
      
   It also has five unhealthy groups that comprise red meats, butter and stick   
   margarine, cheese, pastries and sweets, and fried or fast food.   
      
   The MIND diet includes at least three servings of wholegrains, a salad and one   
   other vegetable every day -- along with a glass of wine.   
      
   It also involves snacking most days on nuts and eating beans every other day   
   or so, poultry and berries at least twice a week and fish at least once a week.   
      
   Dieters must limit eating the designated unhealthy foods, eating less than one   
   tablespoon of butter a day and eating cheese, fried or fast food to less than   
   once a week.   
      
   Limiting these foods is essential to have a real shot at avoiding the   
   devastating effects of Alzheimer's, according to the study.   
      
   Berries are the only fruit specifically to make the MIND diet.   
      
   Professor Morris said: 'Blueberries are one of the more potent foods in terms   
   of protecting the brain,' adding that strawberries have also performed well in   
   past studies of the effect of food on cognitive function.   
      
   The diet suggests 10 brain-healthy foods including wholegrains, salad,   
   vegetables, berries, nuts, beans, olive oil, poultry and fish	+8   
   The diet suggests 10 brain-healthy foods including wholegrains, salad,   
   vegetables, berries, nuts, beans, olive oil, poultry and fish   
   The MIND diet was not an intervention in this study, however; researchers   
   looked at what people were already eating.   
      
   Participants earned points if they ate brain-healthy foods frequently and   
   avoided unhealthy foods.   
      
   The one exception was that participants got one point if they said olive oil   
   was the primary oil used in their homes.   
      
   The study enlisted volunteers already participating in the ongoing Rush Memory   
   and Aging Project (MAP), which began in 1997 among residents of Chicago-area   
   retirement communities and senior public housing complexes.   
      
   An optional 'food frequency questionnaire' was added from 2004 to February   
   2013, and the MIND diet study looked at results for 923 volunteers.   
      
   Only one tablespoon of butter a day is allowed on the MIND diet	+8   
   Only one tablespoon of butter a day is allowed on the MIND diet   
      
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