The MIND Diet: A Scientific Approach to Enhancing Brain Function and Helping Prevent Alzheimer's and Dementia (MIND Diet Books) Paperback – November 12, 2021

This book explains how food/nutrition affects your brain long-term. Easy read. Very informative and helpful in changing your eating lifestyle.

Dietician used this book as a reference in a Healthy Body/Healthy Brain class I took sponsored by the Alzheimer's Assn. Yummy recipes!

Great combination of Mediterranean and DASH diets for healthier living. Looking forward to using this as a reference book for a healthier new year!

As our lives get longer, it's important to be sure that we make choices to improve the quality of those longer lives. As someone with three living grandparents who all suffer from a form of dementia, I'm grateful that research like this exists. This book does a great job of combining the scientific with the practical--it doesn't go on too long about science concepts, but it offers enough background to help convince the reader to try some of the tasty-looking recipes inside! I found a lot of similarities with this book and Michael Pollan's work--they both advocate the hearty consumption of lots of plants. There's a more detailed about what to eat when and how both at the beginning (more science oriented) and the end (more practical).In between are tons of detailed recipes. I'm especially enjoying the desserts--I don't like food that's overly sweet, and these desserts curb the sweet tooth while also providing nutrients. I'm also really into the focus on snacks--I honestly feel that snacking is incredibly underrated as a conscientious source of nutrients and not just a mindless stream of endorphins and calories. Overall, I was really impressed with this book.

This book wasn't what I expected. I think it offers a good jumping-off point for anyone who wants to make changes but isn't fully committed yet. I say this because there are some good suggestions in the book, but others take it only so far. For example, the plan lists foods that the author says are damaging and should be avoided, but allows them several times a week anyway. It's still much better than the typical Standard American Diet, but you need more than this wishy-washy approach to make real changes to your future.The Mind Diet book is based on the MIND diet study, which is based on a questionnaire that was developed by Martha Clare Morris, a nutritional epidemiologist at Rush University Medical Center. It hasn't actually been put to the test. A group of 923 Chicago area seniors filled out questionnaires to determine what types of foods they had eaten for several years. They were not asked to eat a certain way, they just submitted a food diary of sorts. They took those questionnaires and broke them down into groups of people that ate healthier, moderately healthy, and unhealthy. The studies showed that ate healthier had lower risks than those who ate moderately or unhealthily. No surprise there. It's likely that those who ate healthier had done so most of their lives. Also, note that no one has been on the MIND diet once the list was compiled. The so-called study even states very clearly that there is no evidence showing the MIND diet works, that it was purely observational and was not controlled or randomized. The MIND diet, as described in this book, seems to cull recommendations from the MIND study, but leaves out important parts, such as exercise.I appreciate that the author takes the time to emphasize how important antioxidants are and how several studies have shown that those who eat more vegetables have lower risks for Alzheimer's. Therefore, I was very confused when she recommended only one serving of vegetables daily, along with one serving of greens. If you know that people benefit more from more vegetables, why not recommend it?This book is okay for a start, especially for someone that might not be ready to make serious changes and wants to ease into a more brain healthy lifestyle.There is another book that I recommend to my own family and friends. The Alzheimer's Solution: A Breakthrough Program to Prevent and Reverse the Symptoms of Cognitive Decline at Every Age, by Drs Dean and Ayesha Sherzai, is based on science and actual studies that take a proven approach to Alzheimer's prevention or at least postponing it. They are neurologists and directors of the Brain Health and Alzheimer's Prevention Program at Loma Linda University Medical Center. Their book is comprehensive but easy to understand and the program is easy to follow.

This is a great cookbook. It is a combination of the Mediterrean Diet and the DASH diet. The author claims it is a scientific approach foir enhancing brain function and helping to prevent Alzheimer’s and Dementia. I have and have had family members with both Alzheimer’s and Dementia. These are brutal conditions! This book will help me prepare healthier brain food for my family. Each recipe has: MIND foods, yeild, time, difficutly and nutritional values. They are very easy to follow and ingrediants are easy to find.I enjoyed reading the descriptions of each food. It was also very helpful to know what food was available in each season. Some of the foods I have never tried, but after reading the description of what they look like, taste like and how to prepare them, I will incorporate them into our diet. Thank you Maggie Moon for having sample food planning charts to get me going.

Bought it for my mom and she kept talking about it for months. She’s incorporated a lot of the suggestions into her meals and says she feels stronger and healthier

Down to earth where you can understand. Lots of great recipes meal plans and examples.

Me gustó mucho este libro. Me ayudó a hacer cambios interesantes en mi dieta.

First off.... the is not a weight-loss book!! Any weight loss is an added bonus. It does not claim to be a weight loss book. I hate the saying: "It's not a diet, it's a lifestyle change"... but in this case, it truly is. This book teaches you how to eat to reduce cognitive decline. It gives a basic physiology lesson on how the brain works, and what studies have shown cause cognitive decline. As a nurse I found that part quite accurate and learned a few extra things as well. Then it teaches how nutrition affects the brain, and what to eat and avoid for the healthiest brain and reduce your risks, or at least slow the decline, of cognitive concerns. There is a recipe section. I've only tried a couple so far but both were quite tasty. My favourite was the blueberry, peach avocado salad.I found it an interesting read. I read the entire thing cover to cover in a day. Very realistic. Overall healthy advise. Recommend

A comprehensive discussion of the principles behind this 'diet', which is a way of eating for good nutrition and not a slimming diet per se. However, you can easily adjust portion sizes so that it also helps you lose weight.It is easy to follow either with a tick list or I use cards to move from the "Not yet Eaten" pile to the "Eaten" pile, so that I can easily track what I have consumed and what I haven't yet. I do not bother with the points system; I just make sure that I keep to what I can eat freely and also that I do not cheat and eat what I am not supposed to.I was delighted to find that the 'dark green salad leaves' item includes Cos or Romaine/Little Gem lettuce, which makes it easy to find this all year round. I make green or red smoothies using salad and fruit to easily up my intake of raw veg, etc. It is so easy and delicious... and therefore easy to stick to. I don't bother with the recipes, but there are lots of delicious​-looking ones in the book.I suffer from 'brain fog', a symptom of ADHD/dyslexia for some people. This diet seems to have done away with that and my head feels clear for the first time for years.

Excellent reading

This book provides a very good overview of AD to support the diet. I find that the best reason for this book are not the recipes (not because they are not good, I have not tried them at this point). What I like the most about this book is that in addition to the recipes, it gives you the building blocs to plan your nutrition. It explains the food types (and items) you need to eat (and should not eat) as well as how much you should eat. When I say how much I am talking about portions, not quantities as your physical activity and age will guide the number of calories you need.I have not yet tried any of the recipes because we already have a lot of healthy recipe books. The content of this book provided us with the information to tweak our diet once again to incorporate consideration for the brain as opposed to other healthy eating aspects such as trans, saturate fats, sugars, salt, refined and processed foods, etc.Highly recommend. If you want to dig into more details of AD, you can dig in with another book purely on that subject.