Mediterranean Diet Might Prevent Dementia
The news about eating a Mediterranean diet keeps getting better and better. We already knew it was good for your heart, good for your waistline, and good for your cholesterol levels. Now, according to new research, we’re learning that a Mediterranean diet might also lower the risk of developing dementia.
In other words, a diet full of fruits, vegetables, and healthy fats, and low in dairy, meat, poultry, and saturated fats, seems to lower the risk of having brain infarcts (which result in small areas of dead tissue in the brain)—the “second most common form of dementia, after Alzheimer’s disease.”
Get more info on the Mediterranean diet and how it might prevent dementia at CNN.com.
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—Stephanie Kinnear, web editor
