According to researchers from U. S. people who consumed a Mediterranean-like diet had fewer chances to have brain infarcts.

These small areas of dead tissue are supposed to create thinking problems. Diets of 712 people in New York were assessed by dividing them into three groups.

These groups were based on how strongly they followed the diet. Mediterranean diet is good for health.

As it is high in vegetables, fruits, legumes, monounsaturated fatty acids such as olive oil, cereals, fish, and is low in saturated fat, dairy products, meat and poultry and this diet also includes moderate amounts of alcohol.

Magnetic resonance imaging brain scans of the people was conducted by Dr Nikolaos Scarmeas, the study author from the Columbia University Medical Center in New York, and colleagues an average of six years later. Results stated that about 238 people had at least one area of brain damage.

There was a 36 per cent decline in brain damage among people who were most closely following a Mediterranean-like diet. Those who were moderately following the diet had 21 per cent lesser chances to have brain damage.