Fatty diet could increase progression of Alzheimer's: Study

Canada.com
Marianne White , Canwest News Service
Published: Tuesday, October 28, 2008
QUEBEC - Eating foods rich in saturated fat and poor in omega-3 fatty acids could contribute to the progression of Alzheimer's disease, a new Canadian study suggests.

The study, published in the latest online edition of Neurobiology of Aging, looked into the effects of a diet high in fat (60 per cent of calorie intake) on mouse brains.

The researchers from Laval University, in Quebec City, compared two neurological markers of the disease, the amyloid-beta and tau proteins found in the brain of Alzheimer's patients.

They found that mice whose diet was high in fat showed.....read the whole story