1 in 85 Americans will have Alzheimers by 2025

[SoCalDem]

WTF!!!

just heard this on CNN ..

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and then there's this:

http://www.blueridgenow.com/article/20070607/NEWS/706070325/1017/OPINION01/NEWS/Diet_high_in_beef_center_of_our_woes

BlueRidgeNow.com
Jun 7, 2007
Published Thursday, June 7, 2007
Diet high in beef center of our woes

To The Editor: "In June, have beef and dairy for dinner," says the Times-News on May 28 and "Have steak and healthy heart," says the Times-News on May 16.

They remind us that June is "Beef and Dairy month" while extolling the health virtues of beef and dairy. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Consumption of commercially raised beef and dairy cows are our No.1 environmental hazard. The Nurse's Health Study linked red meat with a two-fold increase in breast cancer. Both red meat and dairy add to inflammation, plaque, bone loss and clogged arteries (think heart disease, cancer, Alzheimers and other chronic ailments).

Americans consume more dairy and red meat than other western countries but die of degenerative diseases more often (with medical help). The American diet is an acid-inflammation condition.

Chronic inflammation is America's problem because it damages all blood vessels to all our organs. Statins do lower cholesterol numbers but do nothing to stop patients from eating oxidized cholesterol from beef and dairy -- the "sticky stuff" of arteriosclerosis plaque.

Anti-inflammatories are omega-3 oils, natural plant foods and anti-oxidant supplements.

Ken Glimpse

East Flat Rock

[BlooInBloo]

1. Um, what percentage has it now?

[SoCalDem]

3. News-chickie didn't say, but she cheerfully dropped the other statistic on us

as glibly as if she were announcing a sale at the gap :eyes:

[EFerrari]

2. Maybe we can get group rates?

[MistressOverdone]

4. As we boomers wave goodbye

and go out just a bit fuzzy. It will be just like the '60's!


Seriously, that is a tragic figure, and scary. I lost my father to AD. It was ugly and heart breaking. He was a wonderful and brilliant man, reduced to something I try not to remember.

[SoCalDem]

6. Equally scary is the study that said 1 in 98 male infants will have autism

heard that one a while back..

Seems like something we are ingesting/breathing, drinking or whatever...is damaging brains....young and old
:(

[MistressOverdone]

9. As a teacher, I find that figure staggering.

I have a theory it might have something to do with our brains being over stimulated with images. (TV, computers, film, etc.)

I totally made that up and have no link, nor any data! But THAT is something that has been increasing steadily.

[Rydz777]

13. I take your point seriously - not in any connection to Alzheimer's -

but in connection with the fact that we are increasingly putting ourselves into a two-dimensional world of images orchestrated by others. Reality is (at least) three-dimensional, and I think as we try to make reality more "virtual" we are crippling ourselves in ways we do not yet understand.

[MistressOverdone]

15. I often point out to my kids

that even in their cars they are processing more images than their ancestors processed in a year. Think of how fast things whiz by and how quickly we have to process them, as opposed to clip-clopping by on a horse (and even THAT was a big change from our years of evolving as a species.)

[liberalhistorian]

23. I know, my stepdad is in the later stages of Alzheimer's,

he's only 63 and it started in his fifties. He was an English teacher at both the high school and college level, with an MA in English; he wrote award-winning poetry, had a wonderfully creative sense of humor, and a true appreciation of literature and writing and their contributions to culture. He encouraged and criticqued my own writing, and got me into Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and many other of my favorite writers. He could more than hold his own in historical or philosophical discussions as well, and God help you if you played Trivial Pursuit with him (unless the categories were "@##^@#$^ geography", as he called it, or sports).

And yet now, he does not even have control over his own bodily functions, let alone even remember how to read or write. To call it agonizing and heartbreaking doesn't even begin to describe it, especially since he's still relatively young.

And it's no surprise that this goddamned insidious, infernal disease will claim more and more people, since we are living longer than ever before. The current issue of AARP Magazine has an article on the 100th anniversary of Dr. Alois Alzheimer's "discovery" report on what he then termed "pre-senile dimensia"; it discusses the history of the disease's discovery and the promising new treatments on the horizon. They're too late for my stepdad, but I hope they help others who are not so far gone so that they do not ever have to endure what my family is going through. I wouldn't wish that on my worst enemy.

[bdamomma]

5. the longer Americans live the increase of Alzheimers is more

prevalent among the masses, not something to really look forward too huh?

[SoCalDem]

7. extremely sucky to think about

:(

[StarryNite]

8. It's a horrible disease.

:cry:

[SoCalDem]

10. Just found this...(Wyeth on on the case)

Hopes rise for Alzheimer's drug from Elan & Wyeth


Scientific American - May 21, 2007

.SCIENCE NEWS
May 21, 2007
Hopes rise for Alzheimer's drug from Elan & Wyeth

By Ben Hirschler

LONDON (Reuters) - Ireland's Elan Corp and U.S. partner Wyeth plan to start final-stage clinical tests of a new antibody drug to fight Alzheimer's disease, offering new hope to patients and boosting both groups' shares.

Bapineuzumab, also known as AAB-001, will begin Phase III trials in treating patients with mild to moderate Alzheimer's in the second half of this year, once clinical trial design is finalized with regulatory agencies, the firms said on Monday.

The development is encouraging, since Alzheimer's research has been a graveyard of failed drugs, but the project remains high risk.

The decision to push ahead with Phase III tests was reached taking into account the seriousness of the disease and a review of interim data from Phase II studies, Elan and Wyeth said.

snip....


An earlier experimental Alzheimer's vaccine from the two partners was abandoned in 2002 after it caused dangerous brain inflammation in some patients, although later research suggested it did help clear some brain-destroying plaques.

The World Health Organization estimates there are about 18 million people worldwide with Alzheimer's disease and this figure is projected to reach 34 million by 2025, due to ageing populations.

(Additional reporting by Paul Hoskins in Dublin)

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and

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http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?alias=new-tests-may-help-predic&chanID=sa003&modsrc=reuters

SCIENCE NEWS
June 10, 2007
New tests may help predict Alzheimer's: conference



By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Editor

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - New tests involving blood and brain scans can detect symptoms of Alzheimer's disease, and brief appraisals of real-life functioning can predict who is likely to develop it, researchers said on Sunday.

The tests will be critical, experts told a meeting on Alzheimer's disease, because more than 26 million people now have the brain-wasting disease and this number will quadruple, to 106 million, by 2050.

"By 2050, 1 in 85 persons worldwide will have Alzheimer's disease," said Ron Brookmeyer of Johns Hopkins University, who led the study on how many people have the disease.


No drugs can significantly affect Alzheimer's disease, although four have a very modest impact if given early on.

The disease is very difficult to detect until it has progressed from mild memory loss to clear impairment. Patients eventually lose all ability to care for themselves.

Detecting the disease early can help patients and their families plan better for the future but can also help researchers develop drugs to treat and perhaps even prevent the disease.

snip....

[bdamomma]

11. it is, my mom died of it, and she was a wonderful and energetic woman.

[StarryNite]

14. My mother-in-law has

it. It's been heartbreaking to watch her mind deteriorate over the years. She is in good physical health but she is to the point of not recognizing anybody. It's going on about 8 years since the signs first became apparent.

[LMG]

12. lzheimers

My Husband has this awful disease
He has been on two different medicines and neither have helped
seem to make him more confused

[StarryNite]

22. I am so sorry you

are going through this too. My mother-in-law had been put on various medications too. Some of them made her very agitated to the point of hitting and scratching people. Then a different kind made her dizzy when she stood up and she fell and broke her hip. This all took place in the memory care facility that she is in now. There was doubt as to whether she would ever be able to walk again. That was almost 4 years ago. She recovered from the broken hip and is able to shuffle right along. I look around at the other residents who are much worse off and I know what we have in store for us. Although her memory is shot she still laughs and sometimes cries. And she loves to eat!

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

16. Wait. Eating Beef In Moderation Causes Alzheimers Now?

Not that I was aware of. Got a source?

[mainegreen]

17. I think the problem is metabolizing just about anything is bad for you in the long run

;)

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

18. Seems So. But That Wasn't My Point. My Point Was In Reference To The Made Up Caution In The OP.

But the OP did just give me an urge for a steak, so I think I'm gonna go upstairs and see if the wife wants to go to outback. :)

[SoCalDem]

21. Hey... I am a carnivore too..

:P.. The numbers just startled me :) the articles are from a Science magazine, and the research is from a European study I think :)

[partylessinOhio]

19. Does anyone know how we compare to other countries on the incidence

of Alzheimers and autism?

[SoCalDem]

20. I have looked for statistics online, but not much success..

It's just possible that the powers that be don't really WANt to know...:shrug:

[partylessinOhio]

25. Thank you! I have a suspicion that the incidences in the US are much

higher. In any case we should be very concerned for the incidences are much too frequent.

[KoKo]

28. Early onset of this in the US is worrysome. It' s not just "old age" anymore

there's SOMETHING GOING ON...but getting the straight story...about whether what we are EATING is contributing or if it's something else will take "true research" that the Bushie Years aren't going to give us.

And...remember that a President's power extends WAY BEYOND his administration because 8 years of Bush will have an "overlap" that will mean that crookery and cronyism in our statistical scientific community will have a "lag time" because BUSH II SHUT DOWN anything but "Sound Science reported by his Religious Right Cronies!"

And folks who remember "True Science" will be DEAD AND GONE while the BUSH CLONES LIVE FOREVER! Corrupting long past when their "FUHER" has gone off to be head of the "Baseball Commission!"

[liberalhistorian]

24. I don't know, but it was originally discovered in Germany by

a German psychiatrist, Alois Alzheimer's, who was treating a German woman in her fifties with all of the symptoms of it. It's pretty prevalent in Europe as well as here, not so much in countries where the life expectancy is not nearly as high as it is in North American and Europe.

[KoKo]

26. Eating the Bush Uninspected Beef will allow the Numbers to Go UP

Who will know with the corruption of an 8 year Bush Regime the difference between normal.."hardening of arteries" compared with Crutchfield-Jacobs disease which also includes "random" disease as opposed to the "Mad Cow" disease which often mimic's Crutchfield's.

:shrug: How will we know... And our kids aren't going to CARE...because raised in Bush/Hitler Youth Society....they will be glad to see their "Boomer Parents" die...for the insurance and second homes in exotic locals and all the rest.

[Matsubara]

27. By 2099 almost every American alive today, including you and me, probably will be dead.

There are a lot of things about aging and dying that we have a hard time accepting. Our bodies, and often our minds fall apart and then we are no more.

It kinda sucks, but you can eat vegan and die of something other than coronary artery disease, but you will still die.

There is no way of getting around it. Period.