MARTHA CLARE MORRIS: So we have
some studies in Chicago where we
evaluated people's diets.
And we followed them
over a period of time
to see who developed Alzheimer's
disease,
and also measured
their cognitive abilities
every year to be able to look
at how
fast their cognitive abilities
declined with age.
So in this study,
we scored people according
to their adherence to the MIND
diet.
And those who had a high score
had a 53% reduction in the risk
of developing Alzheimer's
disease.
This was about the same amount
as people who scored high
in the Mediterranean diet.
But what was very interesting is
that people who scored just
moderately well on the MIND diet
still had a 35% reduction
in the risk of developing
Alzheimer's disease, whereas
people who scored moderately
on the Mediterranean diet, they
didn't have a reduction
in the risk of Alzheimer's.