article_snippet.sent: Experts said the diet, known by the acronym MIND, could reduce the risk of the illness even if the illness not meticulously followed.
article_snippet.sent: Professor Martha Morris, a nutritional epidemiologist of the Rush University Medical Centre in Chicago,  said: 'One of the more exciting things about this is that people who adhered even moderately to the MIND diet had a reduction in people who adhered even moderately to the MIND diet risk for Alzheimer's disease. '
article_snippet.sent: Professor Morris and her colleagues developed the MIND diet based on years of past research about what foods and nutrients have good and bad effects on the functioning of the brain.
article_snippet.sent: This is the first study to relate the MIND diet to Alzheimer's disease. '
article_snippet.sent: the MIND diet was not an intervention in the study, however; researchers looked at what people were already eating.
article_snippet.sent: — the researchers in the new study found there was a stronger link between the MIND diet and more favourable outcomes in terms of Alzheimer's disease.
article_snippet.sent: In other words, it looks like the longer a person eats the MIND diet, the less risk that person will have of developing Alzheimer's, Professor Morris Professor Morris said.
article_snippet.sent: Professor Morris added that the study did not establish a cause and effect relationship between the MIND diet and a lowered risk of Alzheimer's.