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Mediterranean diet makes for healthy minds?

Lots of vegetables and low dairy may stave off Alzheimer's.

It seems a diet loaded with fruit, vegetables and olive oil, some fish and alcohol, but little dairy and meat - known as the Mediterranean diet - can reduce the risk of Alzheimer's disease in the elderly.

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Posted by Nicola Jones on April 18, 2006 05:15 PM |

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Comments

I would love to eat more fruits and vegetables, but the toxic chemicals that I react to in almost all fruits and many vegetables (lettuce particularly) makes that impossible. I'm assuming that these chemicals are insecticides.

Posted by: harry wells | April 20, 2006 12:12 PM

Harry, have you tried organic fruits and vegetables? They are not supposed to contain insecticides/chemicals.

Posted by: Edward Awad | April 24, 2006 06:45 PM

It has been know for AGES that natural food is healthy food and so the mediterranean diet was always going to be good for you.

Posted by: Sabrina | April 26, 2007 10:31 AM

That has basically all the food groups listed. How is it useful?

Posted by: diet news | October 8, 2007 01:35 PM

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