MIND Diet to Fight Alzheimer's: Discover More Reasons to Eat Brain-Healthy Foods

A newly published research confirmed that diet can help reduce incidence of brain disease which is directly attributed to a person getting the high risk of developing Alzheimer's disease.

International Business Times UK cited US News & World Report's recent annual report about a diet which is a combination of the Mediterranean and DASH (Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension) diet programs called MIND which further stands for Mediterranean-Dash Intervention for Neurodegenerative Delay.

The article claims that both of these diets can help reduce the risk of cardiovascular conditions, such as heart attacks and strokes, and protect against dementia.

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According to Martha Clare Morris, ScD, director of nutritional epidemiology at Rush University Medical Center, the MIND approach "specifically includes food and nutrients that medical literature and data show to be good for the brain, such as berries."

The findings said that those who "rigorously" followed this diet were found to have lower risk of having Alzheimer's by over 50% as compared to those "moderate" observers who got 35% lesser likelihood of contracting the said disease.

The MIND diet, as stipulated by the publication, is proven to be much easier to follow than the two aforementioned diets.

As shared over at WebMD, the MIND approach only requires the person to eat from the following 10 food groups which are:

1. Green leafy vegetables – recommended servings six times a week
2. Other vegetables – once a day
3. Nuts – five servings a week
4. Berries – two or more servings per week
5. Beans – at least three servings per week
6. Whole grains – three or more servings a day
7. Fish – once a week
8. Poultry – two times a week
9. Olive oil – to be used as main cooking oil
10. Wine – one glass a day

Discouraged in this diet program is the consumption of the following:

1. Red meats
2. Butter and stick margarine
3. Cheese
4. Pastries and sweets
5. Fried or fast food

Morris, however noted, that the results are yet to be "confirmed by other investigators in different populations and also through randomized trials."

Stay tuned for more updates.