Cognitive health and Mediterranean Diet: Just diet or lifestyle pattern?

Ageing Research Reviews

Volumn 20, Issue , 2015, Pages 74-78

  Yannakoulia, Mary ^a   Kontogianni, Meropi ^a   Scarmeas, Nikolaos ^b,c  

^a HAROKOPIO UNIVERSITY   (Greece)

^b Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain and the Gertrude H Sergievsky Center   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Behaviors; Cognitive decline; Lifestyle; Mediterranean diet; Nutrition

Indexed keywords

COGNITION; DEMENTIA; DIETARY COMPLIANCE; FOOD INTAKE; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HUMAN; LEISURE; LIFESTYLE; LONGEVITY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MEDITERRANEAN DIET; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; REVIEW; SLEEP PARAMETERS; SLEEP QUALITY; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL PARTICIPATION; SOCIAL SUPPORT; COGNITION DISORDERS; ETHNOLOGY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN RELATION; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

COGNITION; COGNITION DISORDERS; DIET, MEDITERRANEAN; FOOD HABITS; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; LIFE STYLE; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; MOTOR ACTIVITY;

EID: 84923358726     PISSN: 15681637     EISSN: 18729649     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.arr.2014.10.003     Document Type: Review

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