It is reported that individuals who ate a healthy, balanced diet of foods included nuts, fish, poultry, vegetables and were light on red meat, high fat foods, organ meat and butter were the least likely to develop Alzheimer’s disease. Individuals who engaged in a healthy lifestyle were said to have a 38 percent lower risk of developing Alzheimer’s that individuals who ate the foods that were previously mentioned.
“Following this dietary pattern seems to protect from Alzheimer’s disease,” said Dr. Nikolaos Scarmeas, associate professor of neurology at Columbia University Medical Center. “this is an observational study, not a clinical trial.”
Researches were able to control a list of different demographic factors for the study including age, education and ethnicity.
“Everything that increases the risk for heart disease – high cholesterol, obesity, high blood pressure, uncontrolled diabetes – all of these tings also increase the risk for Alzheimer’s,” said Dr. Samuel Gandy, a neurologist and cell bioligist at Mount Sinai School of Medicine.
The reasons for the connections that have been found are not completely clear at this time. Some have speculated that the foods mentioned earlier could impact the health of blood vessels throughout the body, which could in turn improve the health of blood vessels in the brain.
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August 9th, 2010 at 11:53 am
This is good news for those of us who needs some motivation.
Not only that we are going to be thinner and attractive to the opposite sex, when we grew older we don’ have to worry about having some Alzheimer disease.