Transcript Alzheimer`s Disease Digital Research

Would you change your eating habits
to avoid Alzheimer Disease?
Mrs. Hopkins
Period All
Thesis
The food choices we make may help us to avoid
Alzheimer Disease; a tortuous disease assaulting a
person’s brain and their family.
“Combinations of Food may Affect
Alzheimer’s Risk”
• Findings from a study conducted on foods that
may help to reduce Alzheimer Disease as we
age had promising results that will provide
support for further exploration of “food
combination-based dietary behavior.” These
findings suggest that a Mediterranean-style diet
may be the answer when trying to live a more
productive and healthy life in our later years.
“Combinations of Food may Affect
Alzheimer’s Risk”
1. Dietary patterns that consist of complex nutrients and
their interactions may ward off Alzheimer Disease.
2. According to this source, diet is “one of the most
important modifiable environmental factors” affecting
the risk of Alzheimer Disease.
3. This Tufts University Health & Nutrition Letter stated,
“High intakes of salad dressing, nuts, fish, tomatoes,
poultry, fruits, and cruciferous and dark and green leafy
vegetables and low intakes of high-fat dairy, red meat,
organ meat and butter” was a pattern associated with a
reduced risk of Alzheimer’s disease.
“Alzheimer Disease; High Dietary Intake of
Vitamin C and Vitamin E Linked to Reduced Risk”
According to the Journal of the American Medical
Association’s (JAMA) study, conducted in 2002, a
diet high in vitamins C and E, from food and not
supplements, may lower the risk of Alzheimer
Disease. This study also suggests other health
benefits from adopting this type of diet.
Vitamin C Rich Foods
“Alzheimer Disease; High Dietary Intake of
Vitamin C and Vitamin E Linked to Reduced Risk”
1. According to JAMA, “About 360, 000 new cases of
Alzheimer Disease are reported each year.”
2. Researchers found that participants in their study
with high intake of certain antioxidants were less
likely to develop Alzheimer Disease.
3. Researchers also reported the positive benefits
smokers may have when they eat in this manner,
due to the positive effect antioxidants have on the
free radical damage smoking causes to their
bodies.
Reflection Slide
1. I chose to research Alzheimer’s Disease because
of a family member’s suffering from this disease.
2. I thought the information about a diet rich in
antioxidants helping to reduce a smokers risk from
damage from free radicals was the most
interesting.
3. My opinions about our interactions with nature
have changes some. I will continue to learn and
change habits to affect a better life for myself.
4. I think my opinions continue to change every time I
learn something new. If I know better, why
wouldn’t I do better?
Works Cited
• "Activity is the best medicine." Nature (2011) eLibrary Science.
Web. 03 Nov 2014.
• "Alzheimer Disease; High dietary intake of vitamin C and vitamin E
linked with reduced risk." Medical Letter on the CDC & FDA. 21
Jul. 2002: 11. eLibrary Science. Web. 03 Nov 2014.
• Anonymous. "Getting Smart About Alzheimer's." Tufts University
Health & Nutrition Letter. 01 May. 2005: 1. eLibrary Science. Web.
03 Nov 2014.
• Anonymous. "Combinations of Food May Affect Alzheimer's Risk."
Tufts University Health & Nutrition Letter. 01 Jul. 2010: 1. eLibrary
Science. Web. 03 Nov 2014.