1. Wholegrain Foods
2. Walnuts
3. Cashews
4. Almonds
5. Pecans
6. Blueberries
7. Strawberries
8. Blackberries
9. Sunflower Seeds
10. Pumpkin Seeds
11. Green Tea
12. Eggs
13. Avocados
14. Tomatoes
15. Brocolli
16. Red Cabbage
17. Eggplant
18. Spinach
19. Yoghurt
20. Chocolate

Want to know why and how these foods feed the brain. Then head over to Life of Zen read all about them.

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Brain Food for Alzheimer’s patients and their caregivers.

*We forget to eat well ourselves. 

*If there are children in the household (one of those sandwiched generation caregiver situations with three generations on board), we may get too busy to make sure their meals and snacks are always well balanced. 

*Then there’s Mom or Dad who’ve become picky eaters anyway…or want to eat all the wrong foods.

This is not to say we shouldn’t have those holiday treats.  But what about checking out these Tips for Healthy Holiday Eating at Grace’s Kids Health Notes blog?

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Healthy Holiday Eating for Caregivers, Kids & Patients

For instance, Auntie developed a greater craving for sweets than she ever had.  Mother, who never overate on sweets, wanted them more frequently. 

I wonder what these ladies would have thought about Deep-Fried Oreos, a variation of this famous black and white cookie I recently heard about at Sara’s Health Bolt blog.  She even refers you to a blog containing the instructions for making them!

Let me know what you think…of the idea or the recipe, if you try it.

                           I wonder, would an Alzheimer’s patient enjoy looking at this picture book?  Would it bring back memories or stimulate conversation? 

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Would Alzheimer’s Patients Like Deep-Fried Oreos?!

According to Professor Clive Ballard, director of research at the Alzheimer’s Society, “Obesity is a huge risk factor for Alzheimer’s disease. People who are obese at 60 are twice as likely to develop dementia by the time they are 75. If we’re not careful, it might be 2m or 2.5 m who have dementia in 50 years.” (more…)

This connection between obesity and Alzheimer’s disease is not new. Check out these related articles:

Obesity may lead to Alzheimer’s(2003)

Scientists Discover Mechanism Tying Obesity To Alzheimer’s Disease (2005)

Midlife Obesity Raises Risk of Alzheimer’s Disease Later (2006)

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A link between obesity and Alzheimer’s disease.

Want to know more? Check out these articles:

Green tea compound Alzheimer hope

Antioxidant in Green Tea May fight Alzheimer’s

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Go Green To Protect Against Alzheimer’s.

Alzheimer’s Vaccine Works on Mice - Takeshi Tabira, director f the National Institute for Longevity Sciences, announced last week that Japanese scientists have created an oral vaccine for Alzheimer’s disease. So far, the tests have shown that the vaccine is effective and safe in mice. They are planning to start small-scale clinical trials in humans later in the year…

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Links to Recent Alzheimer’s Research.

Some researchers think that this is because of the everyday use of the spice Turmeric. Tumeric is a powerful antioxident which also has anti-inflammatory powers.

Practitioners of Ayurvedic medicine have been using it for centuries to treat inflammatory disorders. But it is only in recent years that scientists have been studying it’s effects on the brain.

Resources:

- Tumeric Shows Promise in Treatment of Alzheimer’s
- Popular Curry Spice is a Brain Booster
- Out of the Spice Box, into the Lab
- Chemical found in Curry may help immune system clear amyloid plaques found in Alzheimer’s Disease

(photo by ballookeys)

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A Curry a day to keep Alzheimer’s away?

For more details about his discussion and links to the references he consults, visit:  http://wanderingvisitor.blogspot.com/2006/09/war-against-fat.html .

As with so many studies about what might cause Alzheimer’s, I find myself thinking about my mom and aunt and how these findings might apply to them.  Mother didn’t care for fatty foods, although in her growing up years on a farm, much of the food was fried.  My father, who didn’t develop Alzheimer’s in his 92 years of life, ate considerably more fried and fatty foods than Mother. However, I suppose we’d have to analyze the type of fried and fatty foods they ate to make informed conclusions.

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Does Eating Fat Affect Alzheimer’s?

Perhaps my tips that Hsien-Hsien Lei, PhD, published on her blog, A Hearty Life, today would be of interest to those planning meals for anyone with Alzheimer’s.  You’ll find them at: http://www.aheartylife.com/2006/08/31/hearty-habits-15-watch-the-salt/.

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Healthy Diets for Alzheimer’s Patients