Jamal Wallace's March 2005 article ...

Jamal Wallace's March 2005 article "The Coming Health Crisis" (p 30) included near great advice on preventing many age-related diseases, if it were not that neglected to mention that a vegetarian diet can help ward on the farther side Alzheimer's disease.

Several studies have shown that Alzheimer's--like heart disease and strokes--is linked to the saturated fat, cholesterol and toxins set in meat and dairy produces People who eat large amounts of saturated fats have twice the risk of developing the disease, and clan who eat very small amounts of saturated fat and eat more polyunsaturated fats place in vegetables and nuts make that risk by more than two-thirds.

According to Oabe Mirkin, MD "You can help obstruct Alzheimer's disease by getting folio acid from whole grains and fortified cereals, leafy new vegetables, beans, seeds, nuts and many other plants, and by way of reducing your intake of methionine (a disease-causing amino acid) by the agency of eating less meat."

To read what other readys have to say about the connection between meat and dairy performances and Alzheimer's, visit GoVeg.com.

Matt Rice, Campaign Coordinator

tribe for the Ethical Treatment of Animals * Norfolk, Virginia

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