Yikes, this is not good news...if you eat like most Americans, that is...
LONDON (Reuters) - Mice fed junk food for nine months showed signs of developing the abnormal brain tangles strongly associated with Alzheimer's disease,a Swedish researcher said on Friday.The findings come from a series of published papers by a researcher at Sweden's Karolinska Institutet..."On examining the brains of these mice, we found a chemical change not unlike that found in the Alzheimer brain," Susanne Akterin, a researcher at the Karolinska Institutet's Alzheimer's Disease Research Center, who led the study, said in a statement...Alzheimer's disease is incurable and is the most common form of dementia among older people. It affects the regions of the brain involving thought, memory and language."Read morehere. So if keeping my waistline in tact isn't enough motivation to avoid the drive-thru, maybe keeping my mind in tact will be? I find it far too easy to drive to the closest fast food place when I'm on the run. I need to think of a good way to remind myself that every french fry has the potential to zap memories and healthy thoughts from my twilight years. But it's not just the greasy fast food that'll get me...it's also the sweet stuff I have been known to sneak between meals.
Kim Klaver posted the other day that science journalist Gary Taubes hypothesizes that the excessive amounts of sugar and refined flour in American diets are contributing to Alzheimer's. He reports increases in the incidence of Alzheimer's in Japanese immigrants to the U.S. and in African Americans compared to rural Africans. Type 2 diabetics have about twice as much risk of contracting Alzheimer's disease as non-diabetics. And diabetics on insulin therapy have a fourfold increase in risk. (Taubes, 2007,
Good Calories Bad Calories, pp 205-209).
HealthNutWannabe is looking for easy ways to eat the right things and not eat the wrong things.
I'm getting off the fast food treadmill and becoming part of the Whole Food Nation.
LONDON (Reuters) - Mice fed junk food for nine months showed signs of developing the abnormal brain tangles strongly associated with Alzheimer's disease,a Swedish researcher said on Friday.The findings come from a series of published papers by a researcher at Sweden's Karolinska Institutet...
"On examining the brains of these mice, we found a chemical change not unlike that found in the Alzheimer brain," Susanne Akterin, a researcher at the Karolinska Institutet's Alzheimer's Disease Research Center, who led the study, said in a statement...
Alzheimer's disease is incurable and is the most common form of dementia among older people. It affects the regions of the brain involving thought, memory and language."
Read morehere.
So if keeping my waistline in tact isn't enough motivation to avoid the drive-thru, maybe keeping my mind in tact will be? I find it far too easy to drive to the closest fast food place when I'm on the run. I need to think of a good way to remind myself that every french fry has the potential to zap memories and healthy thoughts from my twilight years. But it's not just the greasy fast food that'll get me...it's also the sweet stuff I have been known to sneak between meals.
Kim Klaver posted the other day that science journalist Gary Taubes hypothesizes that the excessive amounts of sugar and refined flour in American diets are contributing to Alzheimer's. He reports increases in the incidence of Alzheimer's in Japanese immigrants to the U.S. and in African Americans compared to rural Africans. Type 2 diabetics have about twice as much risk of contracting Alzheimer's disease as non-diabetics. And diabetics on insulin therapy have a fourfold increase in risk. (Taubes, 2007, Good Calories Bad Calories, pp 205-209).
HealthNutWannabe is looking for easy ways to eat the right things and not eat the wrong things.