"Where
are My Pants?"
Another pitfall of
a low-fat diet
Score
another one for Dr. A. Atkins has been saying
for years that one major consequence of the current
low fat obsession is that people on a low-fat
diet are majorly deficient in Omega-3 fatty acids
because they are afraid to eat fat! So not only
is the low-fat, high-carb diet responsible for
obesity and type II diabetes, but you could easily
extrapolate from this data that a high carb diet
is increasing the incidence of Alzheimers in America
today. I love this line, "diet may play
a role in the mind-robbing disease."
MAY play a role??? Of course it does! The same
way that a lifetime abuse of carbohydrates will
give you type II diabetes. Very sad. People think
they are doing the right thing. They think eating
low-fat is healthy..... and look what it's doing
to them.
Eating
fish may fight Alzheimer's
Study suggests that just one helping
a week is beneficial.
By
PHUONG LE
The Associated Press
CHICAGO
– Older people who eat fish at least once
a week may cut their risk of Alzheimer's by more
than half, a study suggests.
The
study adds to the evidence that diet may play
a role in the mind-robbing disease, which affects
4 million Americans.
Researchers found that people 65 and older who
ate fish - including tuna sandwiches, fish sticks
and shellfish - once a week had a 60 percent lower
risk of Alzheimer's than those who never or rarely
ate fish. Amounts eaten weren't specified.
"This
is very promising, but it's very early, and really
we need to have a lot more studies," said
lead researcher Dr. Martha Clare Morris of Chicago's
Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center.
The
study involved 815 Chicago residents 65 and older.
Follow-up tests nearly four years later found
that 131 participants had developed Alzheimer's.
The
researchers found a link even after adjusting
for age, sex, ethnicity and risk factors like
heart disease.
The
study, published Monday in the Archives of Neurology,
was funded by the National Institutes of Health.
Fish
is rich in an omega-3 fatty acid that is believed
to be important for brain development, Morris
said. Studies have shown that animals fed the
fatty acids had better learning abilities and
memory.
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