The MIND Diet

U.S News and World Report has chosen the MIND Diet as the 2nd best overall diet and as the best diet of 2015. The Mind Diet is a hybrid of the DASH and Mediterranean diets, with a focus on healthy foods that prevent Alzheimer’s. The MIND diet, which stands for “Mediterranean-DASH Intervention for Neurodegenerative Delay,” was developed by Martha Clare Morris, a nutritional epidemiologist at Rush University Medical Center, through a study funded by the National Institute on Aging and published online February 2015. The study found the MIND diet lowered Alzheimer’s risk by about 35 percent for people who followed it moderately well and up to 53 percent for those who adhered to it rigorously.

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