Can you eat for a healthier mind?
Everyone knows you can eat for a healthier body. But can you eat foods to improve your mind or to keep your brain healthier? Yes. Actually, there is a diet called the MIND diet specifically designed to keep your brain healthier. The MIND diet is a combination of two other highly recommended diets – the DASH diet designed to prevent high blood pressure and the Mediterranean diet for overall good health. U.S. News & World Report ranks the MIND diet as 5 th in their rankings of Best Diets Overall . They describe this diet as one that aims to prevent mental decline, especially designed to help prevent Alzheimer’s disease . Rush University researchers found that following the MIND diet can reduce Alzheimer risk by 53% for those who strictly followed the diet plan. And the good news is, you can benefit your brain health without even sticking rigidly to this diet plan. For those who followed the diet only moderately well...