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HysteryDiagnosis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-18-04 08:51 AM
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Vegetable fats vs Alzheimer's progression and or occurrence (sp)
An improper ratio of omega threes to omega sixes in our diets promotes the production of prostaglandin 1 if memory serves... and promotes inflammation... a diet rich in Omega threes helps to reverse this.

Also, spices such as Curcumin, Tumeric, Ginger as well as several commonly ocurring (sp) supplements have anti-inflammatory properties as well. Studies have shown that Curcumin slows the progress of Alzheimer's disease. It does this mainly because of its anti-inflammatory properties. (gr)

http://www.lef.org/whatshot/#vesu

Lead author and professor of medicine and neurology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Greg M Cole, PhD, and colleagues studied fetal rat brain cultures and brain tissue from humans with Alzheimer's disease. They also examined the brains of adult mice bred to develop amyloid who were given a diet in which the source of fat was safflower oil, or a standard diet whose fat content was provided by soy and fish oil. A safflower oil based diet provides almost no omega-3 fatty acids, and has been found to speed up Alzheimer's-like conditions in the brains of laboratory animals.
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