According to a recent Swedish research, a good diet may not protect you against dementia as some have indicated.
The Mediterranean diet, which contains plenty of vegetables, fruits, fish, and healthy fats while limiting dairy and meat consumption, has been promoted as brain-protective. However, Swedish experts now believe that this is not the case. Others, however, argue that these new findings should be interpreted with caution.
Heather Snyder, the Alzheimer’s Association’s vice president of medical and scientific affairs, is skeptical that the results published online Oct. 12 in the journal Neurology are definitive.
“Better understanding the relationship between food and nutrition and dementia risk is vital,” Snyder added.
These new findings should be seen in the context of continuing research, according to Snyder, who was not involved in the study.
“This is an observational research that may identify a connection between variables but cannot show causality,” she said. “We need an intervention study for that; thankfully, there are studies now examining dietary and nutrition-related therapies.”
Existing data, according to Snyder, imply that efforts to minimize dementia risk should be evaluated in combination, rather than one at a time. As a result, the Alzheimer’s Association is conducting the U.S. POINTER Study, a two-year clinical research to see whether lifestyle therapies that target many risk factors at the same time will safeguard mental function in older, at-risk persons.
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