The Mediterranean diet and healthy brains
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From the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, I'm Ira Dreyfuss with HHS HealthBeat.
A study indicates that eating as they do along the Mediterranean - lots of fish, vegetables, fruits, and things like olive oil - could be good for the brain.
Researcher Nikolaos Scarmeas of Columbia University Medical Center in New York City bases that on brain scans of 712 people whose eating patterns had been examined six years earlier. Those who followed the Mediterranean eating pattern most closely had fewer infarcts, which are small areas of brain damage.
"These things are definitely bad because they represent a risk factor for future events and because they can cause subtle problems with thinking and movement."
The study for presentation at a meeting of the American Academy of Neurology was supported by the National Institutes of Health.
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