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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Fish oil supplements could help Alzheimer's patients maintain a healthy weight, a new study in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society shows.
People begin losing weight in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease and get thinner as the disease progresses, Dr. Gerd Faxen Irving of Karolinksa University Hospital Huddinge in Stockholm and her colleagues note in their report. Several factors may contribute, they add, including inflammation, dulling of taste and smell, and the roaming and fidgeting characteristic of the disease, which may cause people to burn more calories.
Given that people with Alzheimer's disease have low levels of omega-3 fatty acids that drop further as the disease progresses, Irving and her team investigated.......read the whole article
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