{"id":222630,"date":"2025-09-29T08:02:56","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T13:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/this-popular-diet-seems-to-reduce-gum-disease-scientists-say"},"modified":"2025-09-29T08:02:56","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T13:02:56","slug":"this-popular-diet-seems-to-reduce-gum-disease-scientists-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/this-popular-diet-seems-to-reduce-gum-disease-scientists-say","title":{"rendered":"This Popular Diet Seems to Reduce Gum Disease, Scientists Say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-popular-diet-seems-to-reduce-gum-disease-scientists-say.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s something rather special about the Mediterranean diet: already associated with a lower risk of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/one-diet-can-lower-genetic-risk-for-alzheimers-scientists-discover\">Alzheimer\u2019s disease<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/mediterranean-diet-linked-to-23-lower-risk-of-death-in-women\">early death<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/your-food-choices-can-fuel-anxiety-and-depression-heres-how\">poor mental health<\/a>, and more besides, a new study links the diet to better gum health too.<\/p>\n<p>The study, carried out by researchers from King\u2019s College London and the University of Catania in Italy, involved 195 participants with an average age of 49, who were given a health check-up and quizzed on their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/a-mediterranean-lifestyle-really-can-help-you-live-longer-study-shows\">dietary habits<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Those participants who stuck more closely to the plant-rich Mediterranean diet were less likely to have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/gum-disease-isnt-only-a-problem-for-your-mouth-heres-what-to-know\">gum disease<\/a>, the data showed \u2013 especially those who didn\u2019t eat much red meat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s something rather special about the Mediterranean diet: already associated with a lower risk of Alzheimer\u2019s disease, early death, poor mental health, and more besides, a new study links the diet to better gum health too. The study, carried out by researchers from King\u2019s College London and the University of Catania in Italy, involved 195 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}