Showing posts with label Alzheimer's disease and junk food. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Alzheimer's disease and junk food. Show all posts

Saturday, November 29, 2008

Research on mice links fast food to Alzheimer's

This should not be a surprize to anyone
Reuters
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, which come from a series of published papers by a researcher at Sweden's Karolinska Institutet, show how a diet rich in fat, sugar and cholesterol could increase the risk of the most common type of dementia.
"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.
"We now suspect that a high intake of........read the whole article