Why are so many diets centered around weight loss? After all, our body mass is just one of many aspects tied to our diet. What we choose to eat every day impacts every aspect of our body and how it functions. Yes, that include our brain. Take the Mediterranean-DASH Intervention for Neurodegenerative Delay (MIND) diet, which combines features of the Mediterranean diet with Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH). It’s a diet with an aim to support cognitive function — and the research shows us that it really can work.
A new study suggests that the MIND diet might be as beneficial for our brain as its apt name suggests. Published today in Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology, a paper demonstrates that the MIND diet is linked to lowered risk of cognitive impairment later in life, and was even a predictor of cognitive decline in some populations. Crucially, this study offers insight on why this is the case — in part offering general advice on how eating a certain way for an aging brain.
