Mediterranean diets might help prevent Alzheimer’s disease.

A study suggests that individuals who consume a diet high in green leafy vegetables, along with other vegetables, fruits, whole grains, olive oil, beans, nuts, and fish, may have fewer tau tangles and amyloid plaques in their brains than those who do not. These plaques are signs of Alzheimer’s disease.

These foods are mostly found in plant-based Mediterranean diets and the brain-focused MIND diets (short for Mediterranean-DASH Diet Intervention for Neurodegenerative Delay).

While the MIND diet prioritizes green leafy vegetables like spinach, kale, and collard greens along with other vegetables, the Mediterranean diet calls for fruits, vegetables, and three or more servings of fish each week.

According to Puja Agarwal, the study’s author from RUSH University in Chicago, “Our finding that eating more green leafy vegetables is in and of itself associated with fewer signs of Alzheimer’s disease in the brain is intriguing enough for people to consider adding more of these vegetables to their diet.”

Mediterranean diets might help prevent Alzheimer’s disease.

 

This study does not prove a cause-and-effect relationship, but it does demonstrate a correlation between routinely following these diets and less plaques and tangles related to Alzheimer’s disease. It was published in the journal Neurology.

Nonetheless, “these results are exciting — improvement in people’s diets in just one area was associated with fewer amyloid plaques in the brain, similar to being about four years younger,” such as eating more than six servings of green leafy vegetables per week or avoiding fried foods.

Although there is a correlation, our research does not demonstrate that eating a healthy diet reduces the amount of amyloid plaques in the brain, which are a sign of Alzheimer’s disease. However, adhering to the MIND and Mediterranean diets may be one strategy for individuals to maintain their cognitive abilities as they age.

In order to further dementia research, 581 participants in the study, whose average age at the time of diet evaluation was 84, consented to donate their brains upon death. Seven years passed on average after the study’s inception for the participants.

 

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