Caution, Most Junk Food Can Be Senile!

Latest Research on laboratory rats showed that the consumption of junk food can lead to damage brain nerve cells similar to Alzheimer's disease dementia.

Rats given junk food for nine months showed signs of abnormalities in brain circuits that contain neurofibrillary tangle tau protein indicate the existence of Alzheimer's, reported the scientists from the Karolinska Institutet, Sweden.

These findings indicate how moderan lifestyle habits such as diet rich in fat, sugar and cholesterol increases the risk of dementia types most commonly found it.

"From the examination of the brains of mice, we found a chemical change yan is not much different in the brains of Alzheimer's is attacked," said Susanne Akterin, experts from the Alzheimer's Disease Research Center, the Karolinska Institutet.

"We now suspect that the high intake of fat and cholesterol in combination with genetic factors may adversely affect the number of substances in the brain, which can contribute in the development of Alzheimer's," he added.

Alzheimer's is a disease that there is no cure. Nearly sixty percent of cases of dementia or dementia in the elderly caused by this disease.

In his research, examining Akterin variant apoE4 gene or protein, which is usually found in 15 to 20 percent of those who have Alzheimer's risk factors. This gene plays a role in cholesterol transport system in the body.

Monitor Akterin mice genetically engineered to have the gene variant. The rats were given foods containing lots of fat, sugar and cholesterol for nine months. This represents the type of food nutrition made in the usual fast food outlets.

The rats gradually showed changes in brain chemistry, which indicate the formation of abnormal tau protein is a marker of the presence of Alzheimer's disease, but also a sign that lower cholesterol levels in foods other protein, called Arc that play a role in memory capacity.