A Mediterranean diet could help reduce your risk of getting dementia

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Seniors who carefully followed the MIND diet had a 35 percent lower risk of declining brain function as they aged. In particular, the Mediterranean-DASH Intervention for Neurodegenerative Delay (MIND) diet lowered people's risk of dementia, two studies concluded. Even people who halfheartedly adhered to a MIND diet reduced their risk of brain decline between 18 to 24 percent. "Somebody who eats a really healthy diet probably takes care of themselves in other ways as well," Hayden said. The first MIND diet study involved almost 6,000 seniors participating in the Health and Retirement Study, sponsored by the U.S. National Institute on Aging.

Moderate exercise, diet may cut risk of c-sec: study

"For every 40 mothers who follow the healthy diet and moderate exercise, one less woman will end up with a Cesarean section," said Shakila Thangaratinam, professor at QMUL. The lack of adverse effects should reassure mothers who have traditionally been advised not to undertake structured exercise or manage their diet in pregnancy. Researchers from Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) in the UK found that dieting combined with physical activity significantly reduced the mother's weight gain during pregnancy by an average of 0.7 kilogramme. "Our findings are important because it is often thought that pregnant women shouldn't exercise because it may harm the baby," Thangaratinam said. It also lowered the odds of the mother having a Cesarean section by about 10 per cent, researchers said.


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