Study links diabetes to risk of Alzheimer's..this is scary

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Study links diabetes to risk of Alzheimer's
A study of 824 people for more than five years finds that those with diabetes had a 65 percent greater risk of developing Alzheimer's.
By LISA GREENE, Times Staff Writer
Published May 18, 2004

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People with diabetes may have a greater risk of developing Alzheimer's disease, a new study says, meaning that rates of Alzheimer's could increase even faster than expected.More than 4-million Americans already have Alzheimer's, a number expected to roughly triple by 2050 as the population ages.

But diabetes also is increasing at epidemic rates. So if it contributes to Alzheimer's, the number of Americans living with the debilitating brain disorder could grow even faster."It is kind of scary thinking about the idea of a diabetes epidemic in conjunction with the other factors of Alzheimer's," said Neil Buckholtz, chief of the Dementias of Aging Branch of the National Institute on Aging, which funded the study.

In the study, published Monday in the Archives of Neurology, patients with diabetes had a 65 percent greater risk of developing Alzheimer's.

The results should be a call for people with diabetes to work even harder to control their blood sugar, and for people at risk for diabetes to change their diet and exercise habits to lower that risk, Alzheimer's experts said.

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I am no scientist, but I cannot help but wonder if the advent of all the "additives" and myriad of "sugars" that "infect" our food could be the culprits.. It's really only been 40 years or so since this "explosion" of prepared/packaged/adulterated foods became commpnplace..

Would that count also?

with kids getting type 2 diabetes in adoescence, it's a longterm problem.. People did not used to get thay type until they were adults.. In fact they used to call it "adult-onset diabetes"..

And alzheimers is striking people younger these days too..

I can see it may cause Alzheimer's as it does something to blood flow as we know from the leg trouble with diabetes.(and other things) Diet will control a lot of Adult-onset but not the type 1 childhood. Oh I guess that sounds to cut and dry but one will always have to be treated and one tends to be a diet problem.

there are a whole new set of problems that will develop because of it.

I had my FIRST "fast food" hamburger when I was in HIGH SCHOOL.. Now, toddlers are eating hanburgers, pizza,tacos..

We never had that junk when we were little.. We hardly ever even had soda pop..
Candy was Easter and Halloween..not every day..

cookies were homemade..same with cakes & pastries.

fast food was always the exception when I was growing up - and that's the way I treat it now.

Gotta wonder about that stuff. If you Google HFCS, the first 10 or so "hits" are links to pages by the "Corn Refiners Council" or some such group screaming their heads off (Like Milo in "Catch-22" with his "cotton candy")about how there is NO "proof" that HFFCS is bad for you, and any study to the contrary is junk science....

Yeah, like "Junk Science" doesn't swing both ways? Methinks they doth protest too much....

So much of our food comes out of laboratories now, and the rise of metabolic diseases like diabetes, "Syndrome X" and the rest started around the same time. Co-incidence? maybe, but i think it deserves more than an industry-trade association screaming "PERFECTLY SAFE!!! Eat all you want and want all you EAT!!!"

And I can tell you from personal experience that it's difficult to control one's blood sugar level. My biggest struggle is the feelings of deprivation I have to work through, since the rest of my life is in shambles, too, and food was my only solace.

What a bitch. The only pleasurable thing left in life is killing me.