Fast Food Fats Focus of Forgetting? Alzheimers May Have Found A Link

An interesting study has just been released that suggests that diets high in fats and fast food may attribute some factors to Alzheimers disease.  The study revolved around testing a group of mice that were fed a steady stream of high fats over a period of nine months.  After the nine month period, the mice showed the same abnormal brain tangles that have been strongly associated with the memory-loss disease.

I know this isn’t your normal run-of-the-meal “Adventurist” post, but over the past year I have been keeping my eyes on what is currently being done in regards to Alzheimers.  I lost two grandparents to the disease.  Another friend of mine, Alan Arnette, continues to try to raise awareness and funds to help battle the disease that has stricken his mother.  Earlier this year, many fans to this site will remember the posts I made as we followed Alan Arnette on his quest to reach the summit of Mt. Everest.  He was climbing for the Cure Alzheimers Fund and has been giving information and posts in regards to his mother and this disease.

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Mountaineering Good for Pregnant Mothers?

When I first read this information my first thought was of a team of pregnant mothers-to-be marching up the slope of Mt. Everest, Ice Ax in hand.  Sounded a bit dangerous to me.

It seems that Natalaya Shulyakovskaya (don’t worry, I can’t pronounce it either) is trying to promote mountaineering as a useful tool during pregnancy.

She relates morning sickness to the feeling alot of people suffer in high altitudes where the body does not produce enough red blood cells to store up oxygen…her answer, of course, to help build up more red blood cells is the same technique behind acclimatization….climbing the mountains.

She supposedly used this technique during her last pregnancy with great results.  A day after deliver, she had an over-abundence of energy compared to women who just want to lay round.  She attributed this to the extra red blood cells she had accumulated while mountaineering.

Before you rush to judgement, just read her article found HERE.

I guess my only worry would be a fall or even worse, getting stranded on a peak…it doesn;t really go into much detail explaining the risk factors involved, and personally I wouldn’t reccommend this at all, for the danger factor alone.