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Mediterranean Diet Associated With Reduced Risk Of Alzheimer's Disease

10-12-2006 · ScienceDaily

Eating a Mediterranean diet, which emphasizes fruits, vegetables and olive oil and includes little red meat, is associated with a lower risk for Alzheimer's disease, according to an article posted online today that will appear in the December 2006 print issue of Archives of Neurology, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.

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