“Adhering in midlife to the MIND diet — a hybrid of the Mediterranean diet and the DASH (Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension) diets — was linked with higher volumes in certain brain regions, data from the U.K. Biobank showed.
Higher adherence to the MIND diet was associated with larger volumes of thalamus, putamen, pallidum, hippocampus, and accumbens and lower white matter hyperintensities, regardless of genetic predispositions of Alzheimer’s disease, reported Changzheng Yuan, ScD, of Zhejiang University School of Medicine in Hangzhou, China, and Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health in Boston, and co-authors in Alzheimer’s and Dementia.
“Our study discovered that adherence to the MIND diet showed beneficial associations with white matter hyperintensities and certain subcortical brain region volumes among middle-aged and older adults,” Yuan and co-authors wrote.
“The main independent contributors of the MIND diet included higher intake of whole grains and olive oil, and lower intake of fast fried foods,” they added.”
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