Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Alzheimer's Disease - keeping away ways

Apple Juice
Apple juice can boost the yield of acetylcholine in the brain. That is the like ingredient found in the number one prescribed, extremely advertised pharmaceutic drug Aricept (donepezil), which is used to treat Alzheimer’s disease.

When researchers at the University of Massachusetts Lowell spiked the drinking water of old mice with apple juice concentrate they recorded increased speed and accuracy on memory and learning tasks, such as maneuvering their way through mazes.

Go with the past adage of an apple a day, but make that two apples or two cups of juice.

Cinnamon
Dr. Richard Anderson, an expert on diabetes at the U.S Department of Agriculture, found that eating cinnamon can invigorate weak, ineffective insulin, enabling it to process sugar normally. Add cinnamon to your foods and drinks.
A total of one-half to one teaspoon a day is plenty for most people. You can also get a high dose of the active ingredients by taking a standardized water-soluble extract of cinnamon as a dietary supplement.

Anderson’s latest research work shows out that cinnamon may stop the genesis of Alzheimer’s disease because it blocked the formation of “tau filaments,” which help to initiate the disease.

Coffee 
Coffee, once considered the drink of the unhealthy, is now emerging as a tonic for the aging brain, as well as a deterrent to several chronic diseases that promote Alzheimer’s. Moreover, several studies suggest that coffee drinking earlier in life reduces the risk of dementia and Alzheimer’s disease.

In one large Finnish study,men and women who drank the most coffee  during middle age were 65 percent less likely to develop Alzheimer’s 20 years later.

What’s coffee’s secret? It’s an anti inflammatory, helps block the ill effects of cholesterol in the brain, and cuts the risks of stroke, depression, and diabetes, all promoters of dementia. It’s also high in antioxidants and caffeine, both strong players in brain biochemistry.


Wise words from the Mayo Clinic: “For most people, it appears that a moderate daily intake of coffee  doesn’t seem to hurt and may even help.

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