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A Diet Might Cut the Risk of Developing Alzheimer’s

45 points by arikrak 12y ago

ars 12y ago
Are there any animals that develop Alzheimer's?
- stephentmcm 12y ago
  Not to be a jerk but literally googling your post answers your question... The answer is yes, what was your point?
  - ars 12y ago
    That instead of making up this diet based on educated guessing, feed it to animals and precisely figure out the best way.
davidjnelson 12y ago
This reminds me of Dr Fuhrman's GBOMBS acronym: https://www.drfuhrman.com/library/gbombs.aspx https://www.drfuhrman.com/library/gbombs.aspx
mikeytown2 12y ago
I'm surprised they didn't mention the keto diet in the WSJ article. In this paper, we highlight how an excess of dietary carbohydrates, particularly fructose, alongside a relative deficiency in dietary fats and cholesterol, may lead to the development of Alzheimer's disease http://www.reddit.com/r/ketoscience/comments/32ew4h/nutrition_and_alzheimers_disease_the_detrimental/ http://www.reddit.com/r/ketoscience/comments/32ew4h/nutritio... There's also the recent UCLA study where 9/10 patients improved after going on a keto diet http://neurosciencenews.com/alzheimers-memory-loss-reversal-1377/ http://neurosciencenews.com/alzheimers-memory-loss-reversal-...
gadders 12y ago
The Mediterranean Diet, started to support Olive Oil growers and supported/sponsored by Olive Oil manufacturers.
- ScottWhigham 12y ago
  I would assume the downvote(s) came from people unimpressed that you were negative/attacking without posting supporting reasons.
  - gadders 12y ago
    They probably haven't read The Big Fat Surprise.
vixen99 12y ago
A reading of the literature on in-vivo and in-vitro studies of the effects of flavonoids (the colored components of many fruits and vegetables) on mamamalian biochemistry does suggest that they may have a significant role in maintaining health. I'd like to put it more strongly than that but it's as well to be cautious.
junto 12y ago
Funny, last week I read that being underweight INCREASED the risk of developing Alzheimers if you are middle aged or old [1]. So often these studies should just be ignored, or taken with a huge pinch of salt (apparently that is now ok [2] these days too). [1] http://www.alzheimers.org.uk/site/scripts/news_article.php?newsID=2359 http://www.alzheimers.org.uk/site/scripts/news_article.php?n... [2] http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2014/04/economist-explains-12 http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2014/04/ec...

45 points by arikrak 12y ago

ars 12y ago

Are there any animals that develop Alzheimer's?

stephentmcm 12y ago
Not to be a jerk but literally googling your post answers your question... The answer is yes, what was your point?
- ars 12y ago
  That instead of making up this diet based on educated guessing, feed it to animals and precisely figure out the best way.

davidjnelson 12y ago

This reminds me of Dr Fuhrman's GBOMBS acronym: https://www.drfuhrman.com/library/gbombs.aspx https://www.drfuhrman.com/library/gbombs.aspx

mikeytown2 12y ago

I'm surprised they didn't mention the keto diet in the WSJ article. In this paper, we highlight how an excess of dietary carbohydrates, particularly fructose, alongside a relative deficiency in dietary fats and cholesterol, may lead to the development of Alzheimer's disease http://www.reddit.com/r/ketoscience/comments/32ew4h/nutrition_and_alzheimers_disease_the_detrimental/ http://www.reddit.com/r/ketoscience/comments/32ew4h/nutritio... There's also the recent UCLA study where 9/10 patients improved after going on a keto diet http://neurosciencenews.com/alzheimers-memory-loss-reversal-1377/ http://neurosciencenews.com/alzheimers-memory-loss-reversal-...

gadders 12y ago

The Mediterranean Diet, started to support Olive Oil growers and supported/sponsored by Olive Oil manufacturers.

ScottWhigham 12y ago
I would assume the downvote(s) came from people unimpressed that you were negative/attacking without posting supporting reasons.
- gadders 12y ago
  They probably haven't read The Big Fat Surprise.

vixen99 12y ago

A reading of the literature on in-vivo and in-vitro studies of the effects of flavonoids (the colored components of many fruits and vegetables) on mamamalian biochemistry does suggest that they may have a significant role in maintaining health. I'd like to put it more strongly than that but it's as well to be cautious.

junto 12y ago

Funny, last week I read that being underweight INCREASED the risk of developing Alzheimers if you are middle aged or old [1]. So often these studies should just be ignored, or taken with a huge pinch of salt (apparently that is now ok [2] these days too). [1] http://www.alzheimers.org.uk/site/scripts/news_article.php?newsID=2359 http://www.alzheimers.org.uk/site/scripts/news_article.php?n... [2] http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2014/04/economist-explains-12 http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2014/04/ec...