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Published online 18 April 2006 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news060417-2
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Mediterranean diet makes for healthy minds?
Lots of vegetables and low dairy may stave off Alzheimer's.
It seems a diet loaded with fruit, vegetables and olive oil, some fish and alcohol, but little dairy and meat — known as the Mediterranean diet — can reduce the risk of Alzheimer's disease in the elderly.
Dementia caused by Alzheimer's disease has a huge impact on the US population: about 5% of those aged 65 to 74, and nearly half of those older than 85 are diagnosed with the disease's symptoms.
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