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Diabetes and Alzheimer's Disease

December 25, 2005 08:38 AM

Of course, like other tissues in the body, the brain becomes resistant to the action of insulin. A form now being called Type 3 Diabetes. (There are many types, now slowly being discovered and labelled.)

Excess weight, both a cause and consequence of diabetes (so-closely linked that it is often called Diabesity), is a known risk factor for Alzheimer's. Here is just one of many links one can find Obesity and Alzheimer's.

The most dramatic showing of the link between insulin signalling and Alzheimer's is found by researchers at Brown University. See Insulin Signalling and Alzheimer's.

The abstract of de la Monte's research and others is at Journal of Alzheimer's Disease.

If this isn't enough to convince you of the need to return to the simple, low-glycemic foods of our ancestors and to work out and stay lean, then you aren't getting your new year off to a promising start.

· Evolutionary Fitness

Comments

Art, thanks for the infofmation

Best regards, Serg

Posted by: Serg [TypeKey Profile Page] at June 5, 2006 4:03 AM

Question, (not related):
a.) Why would it be better to go to bed on an empty stomach? Wouldn't our ancestors have been busy hunting, gathering all day and then have settlted down in the evening for a social get-together and eat the catch of the day? Wouldn't a social meal in the evening also help to unwind and contribute to a restful night? - provided one doesn't overeat to an extend that he feels bloated.
b.) What is an empty stomach?

For us the evening is practical the only time that I, my wife and my two boys can sit down together and exchange the news of the day and we value dinner much.

Posted by: roland r. [TypeKey Profile Page] at December 29, 2005 1:25 AM

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