MIND Diet

The MIND Diet, which stands for Mediterranean-DASH Intervention for Neurodegenerative Delay, was developed by Martha Clare Morris - a nutritional epidemiologist at Rush University Medical Center. The MIND diet focuses on foods of plant origin, favoring berries (strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, grapes...); leafy green vegetables, cruciferous vegetables; Limit animal products, which are rich in saturated fats like beans, nuts, fatty fish and olive oil, and drink no more than one glass of wine a day. According to a study from Tufts University (USA), a diet rich in green leafy vegetables helps reduce inflammation and oxidative stress, two factors linked to a number of diseases such as diabetes, Alzheimer's and cancer.

The MIND Diet can help prevent or control diabetes. And like the DASH and Mediterranean diets, the MIND diet's menu follows the recommendations of the American Diabetes Association. A study published in the August 2013 issue of the journal Diabetologia found that people who follow a Mediterranean diet have a lower risk of developing type 2 diabetes than others. The study was based on dietary and diabetes data from more than 22,000 people who were followed for more than 11 years. Key researchers found that supervisors who followed the strictest Mediterranean diet had a 12% lower risk of diabetes than those who did not.