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Mediterranean Diet has Varied Effects on Cognitive Decline among Different Races

posted by azrael on Sunday July 20 2014, @07:27AM   Printer-friendly
from the used-to-know-what-this-meant dept.

cafebabe writes:

ScienceDaily reports that:

In a population of initially well-functioning older adults, we found a significant correlation between strong adherence to the Mediterranean diet and a slower rate of cognitive decline among African American, but not white, older adults. Our study is the first to show a possible race-specific association between the Mediterranean diet and cognitive decline.

 
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  • (Score: 2) by AnonTechie on Sunday July 20 2014, @08:20AM

    by AnonTechie (2275) on Sunday July 20 2014, @08:20AM (#71453) Journal

    Is sample size of 2326 enough to come to a conclusion ??

    Why do you think this diet does NOT work with white older adults ?

    Since, most of the people who follow the Mediterranean Diet are white (both young and old) from Mediterranean countries; What is difference between Mediterranean Older White Adults and American Older White Adults ?

    What makes the Mediterranean Diet effective for older African-Americans ?

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  • (Score: 2) by lx on Sunday July 20 2014, @09:15AM

    by lx (1915) on Sunday July 20 2014, @09:15AM (#71458)

    Form the article it's not clear if and how they accounted for cultural differences.
    If the typical diet of older White American people is more healthy than the typical diet of older African-Americans then a switch to the Mediterrean diet may have less effect in that population.

    From the abstract it appears that they only looked at adherence to the Mediterranean diet and didn't look at differences in overall diet in both groups, but without seeing the actual paper it's impossible to tell.

  • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Sunday July 20 2014, @09:51AM

    by c0lo (156) on Sunday July 20 2014, @09:51AM (#71460) Journal

    What is difference between Mediterranean Older White Adults and American Older White Adults ?

    Let me take a wild guess... while the Mediterranean Older White Adults are nuts ([citation] [wikipedia.org]... watch it or read it), at the same age the American Older White Adults are already salads (which is a species of vegetable)

    What makes the Mediterranean Diet effective for older African-Americans ?

    The fact that older African-Americans jumped [wikipedia.org] or danced [imdb.com] before?

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  • (Score: 2) by buswolley on Sunday July 20 2014, @04:08PM

    by buswolley (848) on Sunday July 20 2014, @04:08PM (#71532)

    I'd say that is a very good sample size.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 21 2014, @04:25AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 21 2014, @04:25AM (#71710)

    I'll bet you dollars to donuts they originally ran the regression without distinguishing the two groups and didn't get a significant result.

    You rarely get clear answers out of large broad datasets.