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

November 29, 2008

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.

This study does not ensure a cure, nor does it say that this may be the case with humans, but it does give hope that perhaps what causes Alzheimers will eventually be found. Alzheimers is thought to be caused by a build-up of plaque in the brain caused by cholesterol. The study suggests that the fatty diet may only be a single factor in a more detailed explaination. It is thought that a diet high in fats, combined with specific gentic traits, could be the trigger that starts the reaction. The genetic traits can be found in 15-20 percent of all people, but does not necessarily mean they will get this dreaded disease.

This study will probably make us all think twice next time we stuff that Triple Whopper in our mouths. We might just be eating our brains away-

To read more on this disease, I highly encourage you to head over to Alan Arnette’s website: http://www.alanarnette.com and read up on the abundant information that he provides. You may also like to read the original article as published on the Reuters NewsWire.

Anybody else’s family been hit with this disease? It affects many, many people a year. More than likely most of us have known of someone who has had it, of has it currently. I would be interested in hearing some of your comments.

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