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Mediterranean diet 'helps keep the mind sharp' | Mediterranean diet, which includes a high intake of veggies, whole grains, and fish, a low intake of saturated fat and meat and moderate alcohol use, can help people avoid the small areas of brain damage that can lead to problems with thinking and memory, says a new study. The
research will be presented at the American Academy of Neurology's 62nd Annual
Meeting in Toronto April 10 to April 17, 2010. To reach the conclusion, researchers
assessed the diets of 712 people in New York and divided them into three groups
based on how closely they were following the Mediterranean diet. Then they conducted
MRI brain scans of the people an average of six years later. A total of 238 people
had at least one area of brain damage. Those who were most closely following a
Mediterranean-like diet were 36 percent less likely to have areas of brain damage
than those who were least following the diet. Those moderately following the diet
were 21 percent less likely to have brain damage than the lowest group. "The relationship
between this type of brain damage and the Mediterranean diet was comparable with
that of high blood pressure," said study author Nikolaos Scarmeas, MD, MSc, of
Columbia University Medical Center in New York and a member of the American Academy
of Neurology. "In this study, not eating a Mediterranean-like diet had about the
same effect on the brain as having high blood pressure." |
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