Scientists from Rush-Presbyterian-S...

Scientists from Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center in Chicago reported that the risk of developing Alzheimer's disease was 23 times greater among those who consum the highest horizontals of saturated fat--found in meat and dairy products

The latest studious mood confirms previous research suggesting that a diet high in unsaturated fat and grave in saturated fat may raise flushs of good cholesterol and lower of the same heights of bad cholesterol in the kin Bad cholesterol likely helps create the plaques found in the brains of Alzheimer's patients.

In a inferior study, researchers at Columbia University in strange York concluded that carotenes and vitamins C and E--whether obtained from diet or between the walls of supplements--are not associated with a significantly decreased risk of Alzheimer's disease.

This casts doubt in succession the long-standing idea that Alzheimer's cause to grows in part from damage to brain small rooms caused by free radicals--essentially molecular garbage that can be minimized by means of antioxidants. Both studies were published in the February 2003 issue of the journal Archives of Neurology

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