A Diet Might Cut the Risk of Developing Alzheimer’s (wsj.com)

Are there any animals that develop Alzheimer's?

This reminds me of Dr Fuhrman's GBOMBS acronym: https://www.drfuhrman.com/library/gbombs.aspx

I'm surprised they didn't mention the keto diet in the WSJ article.

In this paper, we highlight how an excess of dietary carbohydrates, particularly fructose, alongside a relative deficiency in dietary fats and cholesterol, may lead to the development of Alzheimer's disease

http://www.reddit.com/r/ketoscience/comments/32ew4h/nutritio...

There's also the recent UCLA study where 9/10 patients improved after going on a keto diet http://neurosciencenews.com/alzheimers-memory-loss-reversal-...

The Mediterranean Diet, started to support Olive Oil growers and supported/sponsored by Olive Oil manufacturers.

A reading of the literature on in-vivo and in-vitro studies of the effects of flavonoids (the colored components of many fruits and vegetables) on mamamalian biochemistry does suggest that they may have a significant role in maintaining health. I'd like to put it more strongly than that but it's as well to be cautious.

Funny, last week I read that being underweight INCREASED the risk of developing Alzheimers if you are middle aged or old [1].

So often these studies should just be ignored, or taken with a huge pinch of salt (apparently that is now ok [2] these days too).

[1] http://www.alzheimers.org.uk/site/scripts/news_article.php?n...

[2] http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2014/04/ec...