Another reason to eat a Mediterranean diet is that it will protect your brain as well as your heart, new research shows.
According to today’s Wall Street Journal article by Jennifer Corbett Dooren, such a diet may protect against blood-vessel damage in the brain, as well as the heart, “reducing the risks of stroke and memory loss.”
February’s issue of the Archives of Neurology is “the first study to specifically examine the effects of the diet centered around vegetables, fruits, fish, whole grains, nuts, olive oil and a moderate amount of alcohol, with limited consumption of red meat, sweets and refined grains like white bread or white rice—on the brain’s small blood vessels,” says the article. “
