Tips to Reduce The Risk of Dementia
A study by Dr. Martha Clare Morris of Rush University Medical Center, Chicago and published in the journal Neurology, showed that frequent consumption of vegetables reduces the risk of cognitive decline by up to 40%.
The study included 3718 patients over 65 years between 1993 and 2002 and the beneficial effects of vegetables, especially green vegetables, would be given by the high concentration of vitamin E, a potent antioxidant, provided by them.
On the other hand, did not show the same beneficial effect of fruit consumption. It follows that neither vitamin C nor beta-carotene allow a protective effect on cognition.
This study raises again the need for a healthy diet in everybody, not only because it reduces the risk of cardiovascular disease among others, but it reduces the risk of cognitive impairment that usually develops with age.
Intensify fight against diabetes, to reduce risk of dementia
The fight against depression and diabetes may help prevent or delay dementia praecox, according to a study published in the British Medical Journal, which estimates that risk factors such as obesity, hypertension and high cholesterol levels are the dark environment conducive for these patients.
A team of British and French researchers studied a group of 400 people older and sought to identify symptoms of dementia at two, four and seven years. At the same time, recorded the height, weight, level of education, income, mobility, eating habits, alcohol consumption and snuff and intellectual absorption capacity of its readings.
The experts concluded that the failure to eliminate depression and diabetes, coupled with greater consumption of fruits and vegetables can reduce 21 percent of new cases of dementia praecox.
Raising the level of education could help reduce by 18 percent of new cases of dementia in the general population over a period of seven years, say doctors.
These weapons are much more effective than simply removing a gene linked to the disease, which only reduce by 7 percent of new cases.
Another study published in the British Medical Journal suggests that people with dementia are three times more likely to die within twelve months from the time they are diagnosed with the disease than the rest of the population.
That study, conducted with 135 000 individuals in the UK, seems to show that the diagnoses are made when the disease is already advanced.
In Mexico, there are also contributions to the diabetes study
For their part, Mexican scientists of the Centre for Research and Advanced Studies (CINVESTAV) National Polytechnic Institute, found that the agave fructans, carbohydrates that are used to make tequila, acting on rats against various diseases like diabetes, colon cancer, osteoporosis and obesity.
“Although the existing market dietary supplements containing powder agave fructans (non-digestible sugar molecules), under the name of inulin (other than insulin), are still little known and studied its benefits,” noted a statement from academic center, one of the first centers in the area of Mexico.
The researcher Mercedes Guadalupe Lopez, Department of Biotechnology and Biochemistry of Cinvestav, in the city of Irapuato, Guanajuato, said that through the intake of fructans of agave (plant that is used to make tequila) can be controlled glucose levels.
“In addition, encourage the production of the hormone GLP1, responsible for insulin production, therefore can help regulate the disease (diabetes),” he said.
At the moment the only Cinvestav research has been conducted in laboratory rats, but has yielded “very positive,” he said.
According to Lopez, eating these sugar molecules Agave also has a beneficial impact on colon cancer, mainly because during its fermentation butyric acid generated in the large intestine, which keeps the colonic (colon cells) protected from bacterial attachment pathogenic, which reduces or prevents the development of this cancer.
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