Alzheimer’s

Have you come across George Morbiot?

Now you can follow his articles on his blog. (I've put a link to his blog on the right).
I have immense respect for this man as what he does he does extremely well.
He has just completed a very thorough survey of the literature on the above subject and his conclusion is that  the dreadful disease that robs people of their ability to think, Alzheimer’s, is most likely comes from what we eat.

In this particular article he concludes:

"We cannot yet state unequivocally that poor diet is a leading cause of Alzheimer’s disease, though we can say that the evidence is strong and growing. But if ever there was a case for the precautionary principle, here it is. It’s not as if we lose anything by eating less rubbish. Averting a possible epidemic of this devastating disease means taking on the bullies: those who mock people for their pathologies and those who spread the pathologies by peddling a lethal diet"

"A scarcely-regulated food industry can engineer its products – loading them with fat, salt, sugar and high fructose corn syrup – to bypass the neurological signals which would otherwise prompt people to stop eating. It can bombard both adults and children with advertising. It can (as we discovered yesterday) use the freedoms granted to academy schools to sell the chocolate, sweets and fizzy drinks now banned from sale in maintained schools. It can kill the only effective system (the traffic light label) for informing people how much fat, sugar and salt their food contains. Then it can turn to the government and blame consumers for eating the products it sells. This is class war: a war against the poor fought by the executive class in government and industry."

For more it is well worth reading the whole article which is thoroughly researched. We owe a real debt of gratitude to people like George Monbiot for the thoroughness with which he does his work.