Reduce Your Risk for Alzheimer’s by 40%

I don’t know how many research reports, population studies and interviews with centenarians are necessary to convince people to follow what has been dubbed the Mediterranean lifestyle.

I’ll just keep passing the information on in the hope that a few more people will get on board or that the information will help reinforce the resolve for those who may be wavering.

It is both a matter of prolonging life and, more importantly, of preserving quality of life.

A diet rich in olive oil, nuts, fish, poultry, plus certain fruits and vegetables may have a powerful effect staving off Alzheimer's disease, according to a study reported recently in the Archives of Neurology.

The research team at Columbia University Medical Centre collected information on the diets of 2,148 healthy people aged over 65 at the study's inception for an average of four years. The participants were checked for Alzheimer's disease every 18 months.

Over the course of the study, 253 participants developed Alzheimer's.

Those least likely to develop the disease ate more olive oil-based salad dressing, nuts, fish, tomatoes, poultry, cruciferous vegetables such as broccoli, fruits, and dark and green leafy vegetables. In addition they ate less red meat, organ meat and high-fat dairy products.

"Diet is probably the easiest way to modify disease risk," said Professor Dr. Yian Gu who headed up the study.

Read more details and tips on the Mediterranean/Sonoma Lifestyle in these articles:

• Want to Know Why “French Women Don’t Get Fat”?
• Mediterranean Lifestyle Correlates with Low Risk of Depression
• Are You on Board with the Mediterranean/Sonoma Lifestyle Yet?
• You Too Can Enjoy the Sonoma Lifestyle
• The World’s Healthiest Diet

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