A new study finds the foods that you eat impact the health of your brain.

Now this is not shocking to a lot of you.

Many of you have found a low-carb diet or you're eating less processed foods and you might

notice better memory, better mental clarity, but this recently published study involving 184,000 people

as part of, again, the UK Biobank Data Set titled, and this was published by the way in Nature

Mental Health, titled Associations of dietary patterns with brain health

from behavioral neuroimaging, biochemical, and genetic analyses.

And in short, this particular study found that diet preferences are linked with mental health and cognitive health.

And we're really going to explore this and talk about the four different clusters.

They clustered

people into high vegetable and fruit consumers.

And actually what they found is that

for some reason these people tended to have higher scores of anxiety,

depression, and mental health issues. Now I'm not

knocking what you're if you're vegan and vegetarian and you're thriving good on you but I

think it's important for all of us to recognize that this is what they found in

the data set. They also found people who had more processed

meats and sugars and so forth had as we might expect poor cognitive health and higher levels

of anxiety and depression. Now, the diet pattern that was most tightly tethered

to optimal cognitive health and mental health parameters

was a more Whole Foods,

and they characterize this as a Mediterranean-style dietary pattern and I'll share with you the graphical abstract here as you can see here subtype one subtype two subtype two is the vegan vegetarian category and as you can see here. There was more of a

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