Can you eat your way to a healthier brain? A nutritionist explains the MIND diet that 'improves your memory'

You might not realise it but your brain is hungry for the right nutrients to boost memory, improve concentration and promote healthy aging. Want to feed it what it craves? Consider the MIND diet, an eating plan specifically designed to protect your brain. Dietitian Paloma Quintana explains, "If I had to sum up what the MIND diet is, I'd say it's simply 'healthy eating' - but with special attention to cognitive health." The much-studied nutritional model combines the best of the Mediterranean diet , anti-inflammatory diets and the DASH diet - the famed dietary plan for hypertension - with an aim to help protect the brain in both the medium and long term.

Quintana insists that the MIND diet isn't a "diet" in the strictest sense. It's instead an approach to eating where you focus