<div class="gmail_quote">On 22 April 2011 12:57, BillK <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pharos@gmail.com">pharos@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 11:18 AM, J. Stanton wrote:<br>
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<div class="im">> Takeaway: more dietary cholesterol, more DHA, less n-6 seed oils, more<br>
> saturated fat (with emphasis on coconut oil), less carbs.<br>
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</div>So the paleo diet cures Alzheimer's as well now! Really???!!!<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>"Cure" may be too strong a word. But I had already thought myself that one's body biochemistry, besides being possibly a risk factor, is quite likely to influence one way or another the evolution of the disease <i>and/or of its symptoms and compensatory mechanisms</i> - as it does with practically everything which happens therein. And of course nutritional choices is one major factor which influences that biochemistry.</div>
<div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">How about going to something like this instead:<br>
<<a href="http://www.alz.org/index.asp" target="_blank">http://www.alz.org/index.asp</a>><br>
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The Alzheimer's Association is the leading, global voluntary health<br>
organization in Alzheimer care and support, and the largest private,<br>
nonprofit funder of Alzheimer research.<br>
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See:<br>
<<a href="http://www.alz.org/alzheimers_disease_causes_risk_factors.asp" target="_blank">http://www.alz.org/alzheimers_disease_causes_risk_factors.asp</a>><br>
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Quote:<br>
Scientists have identified factors that increase the risk of<br>
Alzheimer’s. The most important risk factors—age, family history and<br>
heredity—can't be changed, but emerging evidence suggests there may be<br>
other factors we can influence.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Thank you very much. I will check all that.</div><div><br></div><div>Unfortunately, your quotations seem essentially to concern risk factors and strategies allegedly effective in preventing Alzheimer, but do not make any assumptions, not even far-fetched ones, as to what might be one way or another useful to somebody who already *has* Alzheimer. </div>
<div><br></div></div>-- <br>Stefano Vaj<br>