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Re: Sugars Effects
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Sugar Intake Linked To Cancer And Heart Disease
by Dr.Sofiya
(NaturalNews) The dangers of sugar on oral health are heavily documented. Its adverse effects on weight and obesity, issues that are becoming increasingly common, have been emphasized a great deal in the past few decades as well. Now, new hazards when it comes to consuming too much sugar can be added to the roster: heart disease and cancer.
Study reveals surprising figures
A study published in early February 2014 in the JAMA Internal Medicine journal states that adults in the United States consume amounts that are greater than the recommended 10 percent of their calories from foods and drinks with additional sugar added. This puts the 71.4 percent of those people who consume that amount of sugar at an increased risk of death as a result of cardiovascular disease.
In order to reach that conclusion, researchers studied data collected from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Study (NHANES) to compare figures on sugar consumption over time in order to determine its effect on health. The NHANES is a huge study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that is updated every year. In the NHANES, added sugars were defined as those that are not naturally occurring, such as the ones in fruit juices and fruit, but those that are added when foods are processed by manufacturers. Some examples of these foods include ready-to-eat cereals, fruit drinks, yeast breads, candy, grain-based desserts and dairy desserts.
Steady increase in sugar consumption
The figures studied show a stunning increase in the consumption of added sugars. The average American adult got about 15.7 percent of the calories in their diet from added sugar between 1988 and 1994. Between 1999 and 2004, that figure jumped to 16.8 percent before falling to 14.9 percent between the years of 2005 and 2010. The most recently data, however, reveal that about 10 percent of Americans consumed more than 25 percent of their calories from added sugar.
Sugar metabolizes differently than other foods
The type of sugar that is consumed makes a difference in the health of the body. Studies have shown that fructose causes cancer cells to metabolize at a faster rate than other sugars, such as glucose. While the study used pancreatic cancer cells to study the effects of different sugars, the results call into question the feeling that the two sugars can be used interchangeably with no arguable differences.
Not a new theory
While the possibility of sugar adversely affecting the health, such as increasing the chances of contracting cancer, was first raised nearly 80 years ago, its consumption is rarely addressed by the cancer programs of today. Fructose is proving to be the most harmful of all the types of sugar studies thus far.
For the best results, it is a good idea to watch the intake of added sugar in the diet. Eating more foods with natural sugars can go a long way to satisfying a sweet tooth without compromising health.
Sources for this article include:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130201100149.htm
http://www.nhs.uk
http://www.latimes.com
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Re: Sugars Effects
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Sugar Is Poison, Reveals Physician Author
by S. D. Wells
(NaturalNews) Sugar is now considered the "devil's food" thanks to a brilliant physician and prolific author exposing the hidden truth about it in his new book. Dr. Robert Lustig studies what sugars do to entire populations around the world, so this is no "end the cravings" novel or "sugar for dummies" information piece we're talking about here. This is a compilation of clinical observations documenting the new "War on Sugar!" We must ask ourselves: Is sugar competing with tobacco for total victims of health detriment and with a focus on our youth? Dr. Lustig knows.
Consider this: Which gives you diabetes and cancer sooner, childhood obesity or cigarettes? What's going on at the middle schools and high schools of our country? Is there proper education about alcohol, cigarettes, cocaine and GMO high-fructose corn syrup? Should junk food even be legal? Are children learning about irradiated and refined sugar and the health consequences of daily consumption? -- No.
The junk food industry "green light" is always "on" for pouring toxins and carcinogens into the staple food supply, including all school cafeterias. It's as if the FDA is allowed to make people sick, it's just a matter of how badly. Dr. Lustig's book Fat Chance should be mandatory curriculum for health education.
Sugar creates appetite
Are you hungry? Didn't you just eat? Could it be that your appetite runs on cycles, based on a hormonal mechanism related to stress? Listen to the doctor. He's saying that cortisol increases caloric intake of "comfort foods," and when these levels are high while you're sleeping, it interferes with restfulness. Of course, every person is different, but we may start asking about how much "junk science" can interfere with getting proper amounts of deep sleep, one of the most important aspects of being healthy. Is your brain stuck on a binary system that determines if, when and how hungry you become? Are you feeling like burning energy right now or storing some? What fix do you need from your food -- is food a dangerous drug, or are you feeding your organs nutrients?
"Savage hunger" comes from biochemistry that drives certain behaviors. Some people get very angry when they're just moderately hungry, even violent. An addiction to sugar and MSG (monosodium glutamate) can drive folks to get in fights, break into stores or steal, and even hurt people that are "in their way." Here's a perfect case in point. Watch this woman (zombie) who needs Chicken McNuggets SO BADLY that she resorts to violence at the drive through McDummies (McDonald's) "golden arches" of junk science: NaturalNews.com.
On fad diets: Sugar weight comes back, hauntingly, for most people who go on fast track diets for a couple of months. The weight comes "roaring back." Why? Sugar causes diseases, not just obesity. "Big Food" does NOT want anyone to understand this. This is a crusade, not just a great book by Dr. Lustig, who is announcing the war, the Revolution, like Paul Revere did. Over 5 million people have watched the doctor's video lecture on YouTube, "Sugar: The Bitter Truth," but his book is where everything gets clarified.
Sweet revenge!
The doctor's message is mainly that obesity is the result of a broken food system, rather than gluttony or even laziness. It's not about "willpower" anymore, because Big Food has so many people hooked on sugar, like it's heroin or cocaine. This message is prolific!
Shelby Pope, a freelance writer, explained on the Bay Area Bites food blog at KQED.org:
Before the New York Times asked if sugar was toxic, before Michael Bloomberg tried to ban large sodas in New York City, before people starting calling sugar "the new tobacco," UCSF endocrinologist Robert Lustig stood in front of a crowd of UCSF extension students and told them that the increase in obesity over the last 30 years is the result of one thing: increased amounts of sugar in our diet. Lustig's lecture--a combination of righteous anger and dry science--went on to become a surprise viral hit: since it debuted on YouTube in 2009, it's been viewed almost five million times.
So, are you slowly killing yourself? Say "no" to JUNK SCIENCE and "hello" to organic living, starting right now. "Turn the tables" on the whole processed food industry now! Also, check out The Fat Chance Cookbook, which contains over 100 recipes.
Sources for this article include:
http://www.theguardian.com
http://www.naturalnews.com
http://blogs.kqed.org
http://www.naturalnews.com
http://science.naturalnews.com
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Re: Sugars Effects
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Studies Determine Sugar, Saccharin More Addictive Than Cocaine
by Jonathan Benson, staff writer
(NaturalNews) Millions of prohibitionist-minded Americans have been exposed as complete hypocrites by research proving that refined sugar is more addictive than even hard drugs like cocaine. A compilation of scientific evaluations looking at both sugar and synthetic sweeteners reveals that these omnipresent substances often trigger the same or stronger responses in the brain as illegal drugs, and are sometimes much harder to break in terms of habitual consumption.
A paper published in the journal PLOS ONE back in 2007, for instance, explains how rats given the option to choose between drinking water sweetened with saccharin (Sweet'n Low) or intravenous cocaine almost always chose the water. A shocking 94 percent of rats, according to the researchers, actually preferred the high that they got from saccharin as opposed to the cocaine rush.
The same study found that sucrose, or common table sugar, was also preferred by the rats over cocaine. Based on this observance, the research team noted that regardless of caloric content, the sheer intensity and pleasure of sweetness seems to be more addictive than even the sensitization and intoxication brought about by cocaine, which mainstream society still recognizes as being much more harmful than sugar.
"Refined sugars (e.g., sucrose, fructose) were absent in the diet of most people until very recently in human history," wrote the researchers from University of Bordeaux in France and James Cook University in Australia. "Today overconsumption of diets rich in sugars contributes together with other factors to drive the current obesity epidemic."
Sugar addiction is biologically equivalent to drug addiction
But is it just that the taste of sweetness is enjoyable, or is there something more going on in the brain to indicate actual dependency and addiction? Nearly 40 years ago, William Dufty helped answer this question when he penned a book entitled Sugar Blues, which highlighted the addictive properties of sugar and how sweets are a major driver for declining public health.
Many of the ideas presented in this groundbreaking book have been affirmed and reaffirmed by science, which has repeatedly demonstrated that certain neuroendocrine pathways are activated in response to sugar. The infamous "sweet tooth" and frequent sugar cravings are indicative of how these pathways drive obsessive consumption and addiction.
"In most mammals, including rats and humans, sweet receptors evolved in ancestral environments poor in sugars and are thus not adapted to high concentrations of sweet tastants," wrote the author of another study involving bees, which experienced cocaine-withdrawal-type symptoms when their sweet floral resources were taken away from them.
"The supranormal stimulation of these receptors by sugar-rich diets, such as those now widely available in modern societies, would generate a supranormal reward signal in the brain, with the potential to override self-control mechanisms and thus to lead to addiction."
Wheat, cow's milk contain opioid components similar to heroin
Wheat and processed milk are similarly addictive, according to GreenMedInfo, which documents how many processed foods made from these additives possess narcotic properties, acting in a similar way to heroin when consumed. Modern wheat actually contains psychoactive chemicals that bind to opioid receptors in the nervous system, literally acting as a drug inside the body.
Wheat contains a variety of opioid peptides known as gluten exorphins, while cow's milk contains a variety of casomorphin peptides. Both of these component classes are highly addictive, and are part of the reason why foods made with them are often referred to as "comfort" foods.
"Fructose... is known to increase brain levels of endogenous morphine following ingestion, and may produce metabolic products in the brain very similar to those produced by morphine," wrote Sayer Ji for GreenMedInfo about another highly addictive food additive prevalent in the American food supply.
Sources:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
http://www.greenmedinfo.com
http://science.naturalnews.com
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Re: Sugars Effects
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Sugar and fat are bad for your brain
by David Gutierrez, staff writer
(NaturalNews) A growing body of research suggests that a Western diet high in sugar and fat may cause brain damage, which in turn reduces your ability to decide how much you should eat, according to an article published in The Conversation by American University neuroscientists Terry Davidson and Camille Sample.
Davidson and Sample's lab studies the connection between diet and brain function.
Two-thirds of U.S. adults and more than one-third of children are classified as overweight or obese, and obesity rates continue to climb worldwide. Obesity is considered a major risk factor for a wide variety of health conditions, including diabetes, cardiovascular disease and cancer.
Is your diet literally poisoning your brain?
According to Davidson and Samples, research suggests that our brains are simply not set up to resist the intense temptations created by societal factors such as advertising, which push us to consume greater and greater quantities of unhealthy food. Although people are born with a natural ability to regulate how much they eat, these mechanisms are overwhelmed by messages from the culture we live in.
Research now suggests that this loss of the ability to properly regulate our food intake may not come from social factors alone, nor be fully explained by the simple fact that our bodies evolved to crave high-calorie nutrients such as fat and sugar. Rather, new studies are pointing to the possibility that a Western diet may actually damage regions of the brain associated with appetite regulation.
The region of the brain in question is known as the hippocampus, which regulates information about the need for water and food, as well as memory and learning.
Studies have certainly indicated that obesity and a Western diet may damage memory and learning capacity. Middle-aged people who are overweight or obese have been shown to have a higher risk of developing Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia. Other studies have shown that consuming a Western diet and having a high body fat proportion is associated with memory impairment in children as young as seven.
Davidson and Samples' own research, as well as similar research in other labs, has demonstrated more direct effects in the brains of rats and mice. These studies have found that diets high in sugar and saturated fat (at levels comparable to that in the Western diet) weaken the blood-brain barrier, which is responsible for keeping toxic chemicals out of the brain.
In followup studies, rats whose blood-brain barriers had been weakened in this fashion, were injected with a special dye. The dye accumulated in the hippocampus, which seemed to respond to the influx of foreign chemicals with inflammation and changes in electrochemical activity. The rats whose brains responded in this fashion showed cognition changes consistent with damage to the hippocampus.
Obesity and dementia epidemics may be connected
Davidson and Samples note that both rats and humans who have suffered hippocampus damage have been known to lose the ability to decide if they've had enough food or water. Even a minor impairment to this ability could have major consequences in an advertising-saturated culture like ours, they said.
"In the presence of powerful cues in the environment that entice you to eat, a reduced ability to use information from your body that tells you that you don't need food can lead to overeating," they write.
They warn that the Western diet may be causing a positive feedback loop of escalating brain damage and worsening diet.
"The result could be a vicious cycle in which eating a western diet produces hippocampal dysfunction which weakens the ability to use internal cues to counter eating elicited by cues in the environment," they write.
"As the hippocampus becomes more and more impaired, the severity and scope of learning and memory deficits would also increase. The result could be not only obesity but also more serious cognitive decline."
Sources for this article include:
Independent.co.uk
NaturalNews.com
NaturalNews.com
Science.NaturalNews.com
Science.NaturalNews.com
Science.NaturalNews.com
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Re: Sugars Effects
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High sugar diet found to be as damaging to your brain as being abused
by Jennifer Lea Reynolds
(NaturalNews) Imagine constantly being yelled at, physically harmed, and witnessing traumatic events on a daily basis. Obviously, such abuse and stress isn't healthy or enjoyable, so you'd do your best to try to avoid such situations, right?
Well, according to a recent study published in Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience, people are willingly putting themselves through such abuse every single day. However, this isn't about domestic violence or other high-stress situations, but rather all about the junk foods they're eating. Specifically, the study's researchers focused on how sugar can alter a part of the brain called the hippocampus, which is related to stress and memory. Interestingly, they found that a high-sugar diet alters this portion of the brain in a way that closely mimics the changes that occur when one is exposed to abusive and stressful situations in the early developmental stages of life.(1,2)
That's right, when it comes to your brain, consuming a high-sugar diet is akin to being abused. Still want that soda and candy bar?
Experts say controlling excessive sugar intake could reduce 'burden of psychiatric disorders'
In a Daily Mail article discussing their findings, study authors Jayanthi Maniam and Margaret Morris elaborate on the eye-opening issue. "People who were exposed to early life trauma have changes in the structure of their hippocampus. In humans, those consuming the most 'western' diet had smaller hippocampal volumes, in line with data from animal models."(1)
The authors express concern over the fact that many people do not shun sugar; in fact, quite the opposite is true. "The changes in the brain induced by sugar are of great concern given the high consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages, with particularly high consumption in children aged nine to 16 years."(1)
Further elaboration in Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience states the following: "... early life adversity and high sugar diet may independently increase the risk for psychopathology later in life. ... The similarity in the hippocampal molecular deficits induced by sugar and early life stress is of great concern given the cheap and easy accessibility of sugar-sweetened beverages ... Manipulating the later environment of those exposed to early life adversity, and controlling the consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages across the community may be an effective way to curtail the burden of psychiatric disorders."(2)
Those are some powerful words, folks. The fact that excessive sugar consumption may be linked to psychiatric disorders, is not something to ignore.
After all, it's perfectly logical.
More and more proof that sugar is addictive and mind-altering
Sure, we know that too much of the refined stuff contributes to obesity, diabetes and other health problems, but worse than that, it can alter brain function and personality. In fact, it's downright addictive.
For example, studies have found that sugar acts as a stress suppressant. If you think there's nothing wrong with that, consider that sugar has been shown to make comfort-craving people become addicted. The fact that sugar diminishes stress levels in the brain makes stressed out folks reach for sugary sodas and similar junk foods all the more, reinforcing a seemingly never-ending chain of unhealthy behaviors.(3)
Other studies continue to expose the harms associated with consuming so much refined sugar. Researchers from the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA have also noted the hazards associated with consuming too much sugar and fructose. Published details indicate that they wreak havoc on memory and cognition in teens and young adults, making the strong case that what a person eats is directly related to the brain's ability to function optimally.(4)
The bottom line, as shown by numerous studies, including this more recent one by Jayanthi Maniam and Margaret Morris, is that refined sugar and the junk foods filled with it can severely compromise the brain and body. Do your best to avoid added sugars by eating fresh, whole foods, and plenty of nuts and seeds, and try to help friends and family members eat in the same sensible manner.
Sources for this article include:
(1) DailyMail.co.uk
(2) Journal.FrontiersIn.org
(3) NaturalNews.com
(4) NaturalNews.com
(5) Science.NaturalNews.com
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More Bad News For Sugar - Research Confirms It Is a Leading Cause Of Heart Disease
by John Phillip
(NaturalNews) Just in case you needed yet another reason to stay away from added dietary sugar sources, nutritional scientists now confirm that our obsession with consuming sweets is killing us by dramatically increasing risk of death from cardiovascular disease and heart attack. A host of known risk factors including elevated blood pressure and triglycerides, along with cholesterol abnormalities such as oxidized LDL cholesterol and poor HDL/LDL cholesterol ratios are all attributable to a diet filled with empty calories fueled by sugar consumption. Interestingly, researchers have determined that the increase in cardiovascular risk factors is not attributable to weight gain commonly associated with excess sugar intake; sugar directly raises heart disease risk independent of weight gain.
A research study team from New Zealand's University of Otago, publishing in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, has conducted a review and meta-analysis of a large cohort of dietary studies comparing the effects of higher and lower added sugar consumption on blood pressure and lipids, both of which are important cardiovascular risk determinants. Lead study author, Dr. Lisa Te Morenga and her students have uncovered solid and documented evidence that eating sugar has a direct effect on risk factors for heart disease, and is likely to negatively impact blood pressure and blood lipids. Dr. Te Morenga noted, "Our analysis confirmed that sugars contribute to cardiovascular risk, independent of the effect of sugars on body weight."
Sugar and refined carbohydrates increase risk of hypertension and cholesterol abnormalities
The scientists analyzed a total of 49 nutritional intervention trials conducted between 1965 and 2013. Comparing diets where the only intended differences were the amount of sugars and non-sugar carbohydrates consumed by the participants allowed for the measurement of the effects of these diets on lipids and blood pressure. 37 trials reported the effects of dietary sugars on lipid metabolism while another 12 yielded results on blood pressure. The team then pooled the available data to determine the impact on measurable risk factors that affect human health.
The team noted that some of the data provided by the studies was skewed as the research was funded by the food/sugar industries. When they factored out those biased results, they found a startling pool of data conclusively demonstrating the negative impact of high-sugar diets on cardio-metabolic risk factors. Small increases in blood pressure, as little as 20 mm Hg systolic and diastolic, can double the risk of a heart attack, while changes to cholesterol metabolism can alter the delicate endothelial lining of the arteries affecting plaque formation and blood clotting.
While the food industry and media outlets continue to promote a wide spectrum of processed, sugar packed foods as a means to boost their bottom line profit margins, millions of uninformed people continue to consume 156 pounds of added sugar each year. Recently, sugar has been making news as it has been associated with increased risk of many forms of cancer, as well as stroke and Alzheimer's dementia. The evidence should be clear to any health-minded individual -- eliminate all sources of empty sugar and refined food products in favor of foods in their natural form to dramatically lower the risk of heart disease and most chronic illnesses.
Sources for this article include:
http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/early/2014/05/07/ajcn.113.081521
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2014-05/uoo-sii051414.php
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/05/140515095633.htm
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Move Over Cigarettes! Excessive Sugar and Starch Are Also Major Causes Of Lung Cancer
by J. D. Heyes
(NaturalNews) New research indicates that smoking isn't the only high-risk activity when it comes to developing lung cancer. It would seem that a diet high in sugar and starches could be a major cause as well, NBC News reports, even for non-smokers.
Researchers have discovered that people who remember eating more foods containing a higher glycemic index are also more likely to develop lung cancer. They note that glycemic index is a term that is very familiar to diabetics; it is ascribed to foods that raise blood sugar and stimulate the production of insulin, like bagels, some fruits, including melon and pineapple, and white rice.
NBC News reported that the aforementioned research is not the first that links the glycemic index with an increased risk of cancer. However, it is rare that the index is linked to cancer of the lungs, since that health condition is generally attributed to smoking.
As NBC News reported further:
"The team at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston studied 1,905 people who had just been diagnosed with lung cancer and compared them to 2,415 people without cancer. They quizzed them about their eating habits, smoking, income and other factors.
"People who ate the most foods with a high glycemic index were about 50 percent more likely to be in the lung cancer group than people who reported they ate the fewest high-glycemic foods, the team reported in the journal Cancer Epidemiology and Biomarkers."
Outsized insulin production may stimulate tumor growth
Oddly enough, researchers noted that the link was stronger among those who had never smoked; non-smokers were more than twice as likely to develop lung cancer if they said that they had consumed a high glycemic diet.
"The results from this study suggest that, besides maintaining healthy lifestyles, reducing the consumption of foods and beverages with high glycemic index may serve as a means to lower the risk of lung cancer," Dr. Xifeng Wu, who led the study, told NBC News.
How is this happening? Doctors aren't sure, but there's a theory that high-glycemic foods stimulate the body to make insulin, which in turn affects the growth of cells via compounds called insulin-like growth factors or IGF. Cancer processes amount to uncontrolled proliferation of cells, so it is possible that high glycemic foods are adding to the growth of small tumors.
"IGFs have been shown to play a critical role in regulating cell proliferation and differentiation in cancer and there is evidence to suggest that IGFs are elevated in lung cancer patients," wrote Wu's research team.
'Inconclusive'
In fact, that is suspected in several cancer types, the Today show reported.
"Previous studies have investigated the association between glycemic index, and the related measure glycemic load, and a variety of cancers including colorectal, stomach, pancreas, endometrial, ovarian, prostate, and thyroid but these studies are limited and results have been largely inconclusive," the researchers wrote.
The current study is also inconclusive. For one, researchers asked their subjects to remember what they had eaten; for another, the risk is an association. People who eat foods with high glycemic indexes may also engage in other activities that, combined, enhance the risk of cancer. Also, this particular study only focused on non-Hispanic whites.
NBC News reported further:
"Marji McCullough, an expert in nutritional epidemiology at the American Cancer Society, says it will be important to look at people who don't have cancer now and watch what they eat for years or decades, and see who develops cancer."
The number one cancer killer in the U.S. is lung cancer, claiming more than 150,000 lives a year. At first, it usually only causes vague symptoms; by the time most people are diagnosed, the disease has spread, and is more likely to be fatal.
Sources:
NBCNews.com
Today.com
NaturalNews.com
Science.NaturalNews.com
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High Sugar-based Diet, Obesity Strongly Linked To Causing Alzheimer's And Dementia
by J. D. Heyes
(NaturalNews) New surveys show that fear of getting dementia in our old age has replaced the fear of getting cancer, the UK's Daily Mail Online reports, because people believe there have been some advances in cancer care but not in the treatment for Alzheimer's and other dementia-related diseases.
The paper noted that the best medications currently available for dementia do nothing other than perhaps slow the progression of the disease or otherwise temporarily alleviate some of its symptoms.
That said, researchers now have some better news to report. In March, Dr. Dennis Gillings, head of the World Dementia Council, said he was "optimistic" that new treatments to halt and even reverse the disease could be developed within five years.
The Daily Mail Online reported further:
Dementia refers to a set of symptoms, including loss of memory, confusion and difficulties with thinking, or language, caused by some sort of damage to the brain. Typically it starts after the age of 65 and the risk increases with age, with one in six 80-year-olds affected.
In all, scientists have identified more than 100 forms of dementia. The most common, which affects millions worldwide, is Alzheimer's disease, in which it is believed that abnormal proteins – amyloid and tau – build up in the brain, while connections between brain cells deteriorate.
High-sugar diets really raise your risk of disease
Others are afflicted with vascular dementia, a condition in which brain cells die off after restrictions in the brain's blood supply occur as a result of a stroke or due to diseased blood vessels.
Medical experts say it is common to experience a combination of Alzheimer's and vascular dementia, and that the causes of each will vary. Genetics, researchers have discovered, plays a role particularly in the development of Alzheimer's, but new data also suggest that lifestyle plays an important role as well.
For instance, obesity is strongly tied to dementia. One theory is that having excessive fat tissue triggers the release of harmful hormones that tend to be very damaging to brain cells. In addition, being obese will more likely be accompanied by high blood pressure, higher cholesterol and clogged arteries, which contribute to vascular dementia and risk of stroke.
As such, a growing body of scientific evidence suggests that diets that are high in sugar can also increase a person's risk of developing Alzheimer's and vascular dementia, because high sugar can impede the normal actions of insulin, a hormone that helps manage the body's blood sugar levels. Proper blood sugar levels also appears to be important in brain signaling, scientists also believe.
Chronically high blood sugar causes diabetes and is also believed to increase your risk of blood vessel damage, including the small vessels in the brain.
"Dementia is not inevitable"
That said, just as a poor diet and lifestyle can lead to dementia, eating healthy and developing healthy lifestyle habits like exercise can also protect you against developing a dementia-related disease.
"Dementia is not inevitable," Dr. Naji Tabet, a leading dementia specialist and senior lecturer at Brighton and Sussex Medical School, told the Daily Mail Online.
"We think that in a quarter of patients destined to develop the most common causes of dementia - including many of those with a family susceptibility - it can be stopped or significantly delayed. It's never too early or too late to start thinking about what you could do to protect yourself," Tabet added.
Some of the things that Tabet says could help us protect our brains is to reduce our BMI – body mass index; change dietary habits mostly by reducing excess sugar intake; keep your brain active; treat high blood pressure; and try to reduce stress.
"As we age, our brain shrinks and the connections weaken, but the bigger your cognitive reserve is, the longer you should go without experiencing problems - it's like the bigger the fuel tank is on your car, the further it will go," Tabet said.
Sources:
DailyMail.co.uk
NaturalNews.com
Science.NaturalNews.com
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