I am enjoying the MIND diet recommendation to drink 1 glass of wine per day, even though the calories are a bit hard to work around on a low-calorie diet. 

I really prefer white and blush wine to red wine. My current favorite is Moscato.  My husband really dislikes red wine, so I don’t usually buy it.

The good news is that the two articles that have been published so far about the MIND diet do not specify red wine. They just say ‘wine.’  So, I have been sticking with my preferred white wine.

However, I know that there have been studies that say that red wine is the one that protects cognitive decline. The beneficial component in red wine is Resveratrol. Here are a couple of articles that explain how this works.

• Resveratrol, a neuroprotective supplement for Alzheimer’s disease
• Resveratrol Prevents Age-Related Memory and Mood Dysfunction with Increased Hippocampal Neurogenesis and Microvasculature, and Reduced Glial Activation

On the other hand, there are articles that say this effect has been shown only in mice, not humans. They seem to say that the does mice have received in these studies is way beyond what a human would get from wine or the other sources of Resveratrol.

• Harvard Health Blog: Diet rich in resveratrol offers no health boost
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• Oregon State University Micronutrient Information Center description of Resveratrol

So, you can make up your own mind, but I am sticking to white wine for now.  I do intend to review the articles that describe the research the MIND diet is based on. Maybe I will have a better rationale later.