Dining on leafy green vegetables, whole grains, beans, nuts, olive oil, fruit and fish can result in fewer proteins in the brain linked to Alzheimer’s disease, a new study suggests. Researchers looked at how closely people followed the MIND and Mediterranean diets.
Although similar, the Mediterranean diet recommends vegetables, fruit, and three or more servings of fish per week while the MIND diet prioritises green leafy vegetables like spinach, kale and collard greens along with other vegetables. The MIND diet also prioritises berries over other fruit and recommends one or more servings of fish per week.
Both of the diets recommend small amounts of wine. According to the researchers, while the study shows an association of regularly consuming these diets with fewer Alzheimer’s plaques and tangles (build-up of proteins that clump together in the brain, and are signs of the disease), it does not establish a cause and effect relationship.
