Ask the EN Experts August 2023
If you’re looking for more evidence that food choices and dietary patterns can influence health, look no further. Recent evidence links specific dietary choices with a reduction in risk for dementia. A study in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition reported associations between healthy diet patterns and cognitive outcomes. Researchers in China evaluated prospective associations of adherence to four different, yet healthy, dietary pattern indices—the healthy plant-based diet index, Mediterranean diet score, recommended food score (which measures overall quality of dietary patterns based off of recommendations by the U.S. Dietary Guidelines for Americans), and the Mediterranean-Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension Intervention (DASH) Intervention for Neurodegenerative Delay Diet (MIND) with incident dementia in nearly 12,000 people over an average of 9.4 years. Greater adherence to all of the studied diets was associated with positive outcomes related to cognitive function and trended beneficially toward a reduced incidence of dementia in consumers following these diets.
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