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Issue 241
UK Launches World’s Largest Global Dementia Prevention Research Initiative A major international research initiative has launched in a bid to curb the rising tide of Alzheimer’s disease with everyday lifestyle changes, as opposed to the use of “expensive drugs”. The UK-based Alzheimer’s prevention charity Food for the Brain is behind the ambitious project, which aims to test over 20 million people worldwide to determine which combinations of diet and lifestyle factors have the most powerful effect on reducing the risk of dementia. The launch follows the charity’s testing of more than 200,000 people in the UK and comes amid mounting evidence that more than 80% of Alzheimer’s cases could be prevented through simple, non-pharmaceutical interventions.
RATE INCREASING
Every three seconds someone in the world develops dementia and the rate is increasing. Billions of dollars have been spent on the search for a drug that can block the damaging build-up of plaque in the brain that’s thought to be central to the disease. But the results are not impressive and the side effects include bleeding into the brain. Now that gloomy picture is being transformed in a remarkable and surprising way. Rather than pinning our hopes on another new, powerful and expensive drug, mounting evidence suggests that such seemingly old-fashioned approaches as diet, lifestyle and environmental changes, could dramatically reduce the number of Alzheimer’s cases.
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