Some foods can feed the brain better than others.
The new research presented this week at Nutrition 2025, the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Nutrition in Orlando, Florida, found that mental diet is especially beneficial for cognitive health.
People who followed the Eating Plan Mind, which means Mediterranean-Dash intervention for neurodegenerative delay, were “significantly less likely” to develop Alzheimer’s disease or other forms of dementia, according to a statement by the American Society for Nutrition.
What is mental diet?
The mind is a hybrid of the Mediterranean diet and the Dash diet (dietary approaches to stop hypertension), the latter is designed to reduce blood pressure.
The diet focuses on “healthy foods in the brain” such as green leaf vegetables, berries, nuts and olive oil.
“The mental diet is unique, as the first food plan focused on foods to improve and support cognitive health,” Lauren Harris-Pincus, a registered dietitian nutritionist and nutritionarringyou.com founder and author of “The Everyth Easy Pre-Diabetes Cookbook,” said Fox News Digital.
Plant-centered mental diet highlights 10 types of foods, including berries, leafy vegetables, vegetables, whole grains, nuts and seeds, beans, legumes, seafood, birds and olive oil, according to Harris-Pincus, which was not involved in research.
“These focus foods contain nutrients that play a critical role in the support of brain health, including flavonoids, carotenoids, vitamins B, omega-3 fatty acids (especially DHA), cabbage and minerals such as magnesium, potassium and calcium,” he said.
“Diet also suggests limiting foods such as pastry, refined sugar, red meat, cheese, fried foods, fast food and butter or margarine.”
The impact of the mind on brain health
Researchers at the University of Hawaii analyzed data of about 93,000 North –
At the beginning of the study, participants ranged from 45 to 75 years.
When analyzing which participants developed Alzheimer’s or other dementia in recent years, the mental feeding plan has occurred better than other healthy diets in terms of risk reduction in dementia, with benefits seen both young and older groups.
It was shown that those who followed the diet had a global risk of 9% of dementia, and some groups (African Americans, Latin and white participants) showed a risk of 13% lower.
Asian-Americans and native Hawaiians did not show themselves as a risk reduction.
The longer it adheres to the diet, the greater the reduction of the risk. Those who followed the plan for a period of ten years were at a risk of 25% lower than those who did not hooked.
“Our study results confirm that healthy dietary patterns in the middle life in the afternoon and their improvement over time can prevent Alzheimer’s and related dementia,” said Song-Yi Park, doctor, associate professor at Hawaii University in Manoa, at launch.
“This suggests that it is never too late to adopt a healthy diet to prevent dementia.”
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