To Help Prevent Alzheimer’s Disease, Eat Less Sugar

Make more dark green vegetables your best friends.

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Vegetables help your brain stay healthy. Eating fat and sugar hurts it. Evidence proves that, according to a founding member and Fellow of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine, Michael Greger, MD. He is a physician, New York Times bestselling author, and internationally recognized speaker on nutrition, food safety, and public health issues. Dr. Greger has conducted extensive research on the impact of vegetables and nuts on the brain and believes they help prevent Alzheimer’s Disease.

This week I blogged about his findings, which include these observations:

“Intake of saturated fats and added sugars, two of the primary components of a modern Western diet, is linked with the development of Alzheimer’s disease. There has been a global shift in dietary composition, from traditional diets high in starches and fiber, to what has been termed the Western diet, high in fat and sugar, low in whole, plant foods. What’s so great about fruits and vegetables?

“Plant-derived foods contain thousands of compounds with antioxidant properties, some of which can traverse the blood-brain barrier and may have neuroprotective effects by assisting with antioxidant defense…

“Vegetables may be particularly protective, in part because of certain compounds found in dark green leafy vegetables. These compounds concentrate in the brain, and their consumption is associated with lower rates of age-related cognitive decline.” Yes.