[Stayseeliz]

http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/...M_Exclude=Juno

This is interesting since so many have said for so long that Alzheimer's just strikes at random and there's nothing you can do about it..

Make me want to drink more juice!! I tend to avoid it because of the sugar and just EAT fruit instead..But if drinking juice helps I sure want to drink it..

 

[TiredX2]

I would be interested in the analysis of the findings.

For example: juice is expensive, especially juice squeezed w/the peels intact. Also, good dental care is expensive. The time & money to excercise also tend to congregate among the better paid/more affluent. Could their actually be a *socio-economic* indicator here?

 

[jenoline]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Stayseeliz Make me want to drink more juice!! I tend to avoid it because of the sugar and just EAT fruit instead..But if drinking juice helps I sure want to drink it..

I think that eating the fruit would be just as beneficial (or more so) as drinking the juice. The article says
"Borenstein and her colleagues believe the protective power of juice comes from polyphenols, powerful antioxidants found in the skin and peel of fruits and vegetables. Polyphenols are concentrated in juice that is made by crushing the whole fruit, she says."
My interpretation of that is that the whole fruit would still be better. It's just easier to drink juice, and easier to quantify how much you are getting.

 

[jempd]

This is very interesting, thanks for posting it. Dh's grandma died a year and a half ago, and she had Alzheimer's pretty bad. She had a dreadful diet (canned tunafish and doughnuts were her staples) for a long time and I always wanted to talk about that but no one else in dh's family was partiularly interested.

 

[sweetfiend]

My mother is currently dying of Alzheimer's and she was one of the healthiest eaters I ever knew. She drank carrot juice and grapefruit juice daily (or several times daily) since the sixties. She ate veggies at lunch and dinner (many more than I do!) She had vitamin charts and health food books. She made me take Brewer's Yeast pills my whole childhood. She was ahead of her time, nutritionally speaking. (And she attachment parented--we were never punished, always reasoned with and we had a family bed. This was almost 50 years ago when she was making it up on her own.).

She also had an active mental life--doing crossword puzzles, playing Scrabble, doing crafts, reading. I just don't believe that her lifestyle gave her this disease.

Both her parents lived into their mid-90's and both died of old age with no other causes. They were perfectly coherent up to the week of their deaths.

Physically my mother is in perfect health. She has never had any heart or teeth problems.

I think Americans are just desperate to believe that ALL disease can be prevented if they are just good enough. I think it is a form of blaming the victim.