How what we eat affects our brain is a growing area of research.  Antioxidants, certain vitamins and unsaturated fats are thought to be important for maintaining healthy brain cells.  Following the National Healthy Eating Guidelines should ensure an adequate intake of these important nutrients.  Whether this will reduce your risk of dementia has not been proven, but the available evidence suggests a healthy diet can play a role.

Mind your Diet is one of the seven Mind your Mind signposts pointing you toward reducing your dementia risk.  The following pages explain why we believe a healthy diet is important and provide some recipes and ideas for enjoying brain healthy foods.

Diet and dementia risk – what’s the evidence that diet affects risk?

Enjoy a brain healthy diet – what foods are recommended?

Recipes – brain healthy recipes and links to expert healthy food advice