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Troll_Bait
Joined: 04 Jan 2006
Location: [T]eaching experience doesn't matter much. -Lee Young-chan (pictured)
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 Posted: Fri Sep 01, 2006 1:58 am Post subject: Juice could help stave off Alzheimer's: study |
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Juice could help stave off Alzheimer's: study
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Drinking fruit or vegetable juice several times a week could help protect against Alzheimer's disease, according to a study.
The nine-year study published in The American Journal of Medicine involving nearly 2,000 people, led by Professor Qi Dai of Tennessee's Vanderbilt University, showed that the risk of developing Alzheimer's -- a degenerative brain disease that affects a person's memory, thinking and mood -- was cut by 76 percent among those who drank fruit or vegetable juice more than three times a week.
Among those who drank juice once a week, the risk was reduced by 16 percent.
The study focused on 1,836 dementia-free people in Seattle, Washington beginning in 1991. They were tracked by questionnaires on their lifestyle and eating habits, as well as by cognitive function tests that were conducted every two years.
Although the scientific community had long thought that antioxidant vitamins like vitamins C and E or carotene had protective benefits against Alzheimer's, the study confirmed their belief that "there was maybe something else," Dai said, pointing to polyphenols, natural antioxidants found in juice, tea and wine.
"Animal studies and cell culture studies confirmed that some polyphenols from juices showed a stronger neuroprotective effect than antioxidant vitamins. So we are now looking at polyphenols," Dai said.
The study did not indicate whether some types of juice were more beneficial than others.
The study was part of a larger research project examining Alzheimer's disease in Japan, Hawaii and Seattle.
The illness affects some 4.5 million Americans and nearly 5.4 million people in Western Europe. |
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jaganath69
Joined: 17 Jul 2003
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| Posted: Fri Sep 01, 2006 2:02 am Post subject: Re: Juice could help stave off Alzheimer's: study |
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| Troll_Bait wrote: |
Juice could help stave off Alzheimer's: study
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Drinking fruit or vegetable juice several times a week could help protect against Alzheimer's disease, according to a study.
The nine-year study published in The American Journal of Medicine involving nearly 2,000 people, led by Professor Qi Dai of Tennessee's Vanderbilt University, showed that the risk of developing Alzheimer's -- a degenerative brain disease that affects a person's memory, thinking and mood -- was cut by 76 percent among those who drank fruit or vegetable juice more than three times a week.
Among those who drank juice once a week, the risk was reduced by 16 percent.
The study focused on 1,836 dementia-free people in Seattle, Washington beginning in 1991. They were tracked by questionnaires on their lifestyle and eating habits, as well as by cognitive function tests that were conducted every two years.
Although the scientific community had long thought that antioxidant vitamins like vitamins C and E or carotene had protective benefits against Alzheimer's, the study confirmed their belief that "there was maybe something else," Dai said, pointing to polyphenols, natural antioxidants found in juice, tea and wine.
"Animal studies and cell culture studies confirmed that some polyphenols from juices showed a stronger neuroprotective effect than antioxidant vitamins. So we are now looking at polyphenols," Dai said.
The study did not indicate whether some types of juice were more beneficial than others.
The study was part of a larger research project examining Alzheimer's disease in Japan, Hawaii and Seattle.
The illness affects some 4.5 million Americans and nearly 5.4 million people in Western Europe. |
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And here am I thinking that all it took was kimchi! 
Seriously though, someone needs to take these Korean quacks to task next time they publish some nonsense about the virtues of our favourite pickled sidedish and hold them to the same scientific rigour that is demonstrated in the above study. |
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laogaiguk
Joined: 06 Dec 2005
Location: somewhere in Korea
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| We don't realy have to worry about this anyways. I saw a study on CNN a few years back that the chances of someone with a bachelors degree getting Alzheimer's is practically nil. This is due to the fact that we continued focusing and using our minds for atleast an extra four years, and much harder too (obviously) than public school. |
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captain kirk
Joined: 29 Jan 2003
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| Isn't aluminum cookware supposed to figure into the 'catching' of this disease. I drink alot of canned coffee, 'Let's Be' in the little blue aluminum can, one shotting between classes. I wonder if beverages in aluminum cans drift aluminum particles into the system, migrating to the brain and AGGH, pFFttt, Unggg!@#$...... |
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Muffin
Joined: 01 Mar 2006
Location: Turkey
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| Posted: Sun Sep 03, 2006 2:06 am Post subject: |
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We don't realy have to worry about this anyways. I saw a study on CNN a few years back that the chances of someone with a bachelors degree getting Alzheimer's is practically nil. This is due to the fact that we continued focusing and using our minds for atleast an extra four years, and much harder too (obviously) than public school.
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Then how do you explain Iris Murdoch? |
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laogaiguk
Joined: 06 Dec 2005
Location: somewhere in Korea
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| Posted: Sun Sep 03, 2006 2:35 am Post subject: |
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| Muffin wrote: |
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We don't realy have to worry about this anyways. I saw a study on CNN a few years back that the chances of someone with a bachelors degree getting Alzheimer's is practically nil. This is due to the fact that we continued focusing and using our minds for atleast an extra four years, and much harder too (obviously) than public school.
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Then how do you explain Iris Murdoch? |
Practically nil, not 0%  |
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