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OMEGA-3S AND ALZHEIMER'S
A study from Rush Medical School shows that eating omega-3 fatty acids in fish, nuts and seeds can help prevent Alzheimer's disease.
Alzheimer's disease causes previously normal people to forget their names and loved ones and not be able to react appropriately to other people. Researchers gave a dietary questionnaire to 815 healthy people over 64 years old and followed them for 4 years. 131participants developed signs of Alzheimer disease. Those who consumed fish at least once a week had 60 percent lower risk of Alzheimer's disease compared with those who rarely or never ate fish.
Virtually every risk factor for a heart attack is also a risk factor for Alzheimer's disease: a diet deficient in omega-3 fats, vegetables, vitamins B12, folic acid, and pyridoxine, eating too much saturated fat, too many calories, not exercising, smoking, being overweight, having a high cholesterol, being diabetic, having a high C reactive protein blood test, and so forth. See report #G101.
Consumption of fish and n-3 fatty acids and risk of incident Alzheimer disease. Archives of Neurology, 2003, Vol 60, Iss 7, pp 940-946. MC Morris, DA Evans, JL Bienias, CC Tangney, DA Bennett, RS Wilson, N Aggarwal, J Schneider. Morris MC, Rush Presbyterian St Lukes Med Ctr, Rush Inst Healthy Aging, 1645 W Jackson, Suite 675, Chicago,IL 60612 USA
Checked 5/3/07