Americans who ate a Mediterranean diet - lots of fruits,
vegetables, legumes, cereals, some fish and alcohol, and
little dairy and meat - had a reduced risk for Alzheimer's
disease as they aged. The findings from this new study are
published in the April 2006 issue of Annals of Neurology, a
journal published by John Wiley & Sons.
"Higher adherence to the Mediterranean diet was associated
with significantly lower risk of developing Alzheimer's
disease," the authors report. For each additional point to
Mediterranean diet scores (indicating increased adherence to
the diet), Alzheimer's risk dropped by 9 to 10 percent.
Compared with the subjects in the least adherent group that
adhered to a Mediterranean diet the least, subjects in the
middle had 15 to 21 percent lower risk of developing
Alzheimer's disease, and those in the highest group had a 39
to 40 percent lower risk, suggesting a significant response
effect.
"We conclude that higher adherence to the Mediterranean diet
is associated with a reduction in risk for Alzheimer's
disease," they say. In addition, they say that the
beneficial effects of the Mediterranean diet for
non-neurological conditions have been previously shown to be
generalized to different populations, and that the current
study provided the opportunity to examine the effect of this
diet for a neurological disease in a multiethnic community
in the U.S.
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