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23 sats \ 1 reply \ @Signal312 OP 12 May \ parent \ on: Alzheimers is a NEW disease - here's how to avoid it HealthAndFitness
I don't think that the study you mentioned (with a mouse model) is as good as some of the other studies that are coming out, with people. Often they're directly track older people that consume more sugar, vs older people that consumer less sugar, and find a strong association between sugar consumption and Alzheimer's.
For instance: Sugar in Beverage and the Risk of Incident Dementia, Alzheimer's Disease and Stroke: A Prospective Cohort Study
And this: Associations of sugar intake, high-sugar dietary pattern, and the risk of dementia
Also there's a really strong link between diabetes (with elevated blood glucose) and Alzheimers, I believe the risk more than doubles.
Granted, these kinds of associative studies are not the gold standard, either. Ideally you'd have one group of people on a high sugar diet, and another on a zero sugar diet. But you'd never get that kind of study approved.
Yeah, the study I linked to just happened to be the first one that came up. I'm extremely skeptical of nutrition research for a couple of reasons:
- Nutrition researchers tend to be very poor empiricists
- Nutrition studies would be very difficult for skilled empiricists for fundamental reasons
Even the link between sugar and diabetes is becoming more suspect.
My view is just that people are eating hyper-novel diets, whether that's high carb or high protein, and it's resulting in novel health problems. We're also just living longer than our ancestors, so lots of stuff is going wrong that natural selection never had a chance to iron out.
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