{"id":2467,"date":"2023-06-08T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-08T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/psychiatry-cy.com\/?p=2467"},"modified":"2023-06-08T10:01:20","modified_gmt":"2023-06-08T07:01:20","slug":"greener-diet-younger-brain-mediterranean-diet-slows-brain-aging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psychiatry-cy.com\/el\/greener-diet-younger-brain-mediterranean-diet-slows-brain-aging\/","title":{"rendered":"Greener Diet, Younger Brain: Mediterranean Diet Slows Brain Aging"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Summary:&nbsp;<\/strong>Recent research indicates that a green Mediterranean diet can slow down brain aging.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A new study found weight loss related to this diet reduced the aging of participants\u2019 brains. The participants\u2019 brain age appeared almost nine months younger for every 1% reduction in body weight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These findings underscore the significant impact of dietary habits on brain health.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Key Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The study demonstrated that a 1% reduction in body weight led to a nearly 9-month decrease in brain age.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>This was a sub-study of the larger DIRECT-PLUS trial, involving 102 individuals who met the criteria for obesity.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The research highlighted a green Mediterranean diet, high in dietary polyphenols and low in red\/processed meat, as a beneficial lifestyle change.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong>Ben-Gurion University of the Negev<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Read the whole article by the original source through the link below:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-neuroscience-news wp-block-embed-neuroscience-news\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"DAfPfRvXnt\"><a href=\"https:\/\/neurosciencenews.com\/green-mediterranean-diet-brain-23374\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Greener Diet, Younger Brain: Mediterranean Diet Slows Brain Aging<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Greener Diet, Younger Brain: Mediterranean Diet Slows Brain Aging&#8221; &#8212; Neuroscience News\" src=\"https:\/\/neurosciencenews.com\/green-mediterranean-diet-brain-23374\/embed\/#?secret=fVA05Y9huo#?secret=DAfPfRvXnt\" data-secret=\"DAfPfRvXnt\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\"  marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary:&nbsp;Recent research indicates that a green Mediterranean diet can slow down brain aging. A new study found weight loss related to this diet reduced the aging of participants\u2019 brains. The participants\u2019 brain age appeared almost nine months younger for every 1% reduction in body weight. These findings underscore the significant impact of dietary habits on&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2464,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rs_blank_template":"","rs_page_bg_color":"","slide_template_v7":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[55,83,112,117,80,123],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-brain-el","category-functioning-tips-el","category-healthy-living-el","category-mood-el","category-self-care-el","category-wellbeing-el","entry","has-media"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/psychiatry-cy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/med-diet-brain-health-neurosincnes.jpg.webp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p87S9d-DN","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychiatry-cy.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychiatry-cy.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychiatry-cy.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychiatry-cy.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychiatry-cy.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/psychiatry-cy.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2467\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychiatry-cy.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychiatry-cy.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychiatry-cy.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychiatry-cy.com\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}