Research on mice links fast food to Alzheimer’s
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 fat and cholesterol in combination with genetic factors … can adversely affect several brain substances, which can be a contributory factor in the development of Alzheimer’s.”
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Okay, is anyone else feeling scared straight?
I’ve had at least five concussions, and two of them I was unconscious for at least thirty seconds. I’m more frightened of what could happen to my brain ten years from now after seeing how Andre Waters and Chris Benoit suffered from dementia and depression before they killed themselves.
I already can’t remember this morning…not sure if the threat of alzheimer’s is really enough to keep the whopper at bay…LOL
Uhm, one medical study linking fat, sugar and cholesterol to Alzheimers? By the way how many mice inflicted with Alzheimers have these people studied and why? Or are they saying that these mice with brains so closely related to human brains when fed a strict diet of Fast Food for nine months showed similar degeneration to a human’s brain who was afflicted with Alzheimers?
I’m just saying that most medical study reports drive me wonko. I think I’ll go get a Cheeseburger.