Dementia and high fat

[littlebillie]

Low fat diets at last are being show for what they are, in the papers today higher fat diets slow and prevent dementia

I can't find the link but was on BBC this morning

My neurologist has put me on a high fat/low carb diet to try and help my chronic migraines.

Following - I'll try and find a link.

The low fat dietary advice has been a disaster

60% of adults with a bmi over 25
Diabetes prescriptions cost the NHS £1b a year (that’s just prescriptions not the treatments associated with it)

My mil was obsessed with low fat for years. She lived until 92 but had seious dementia for 20 years living a shell of a life. I always felt all her low fat stuff contributed.

Sorry I posted too soon.... the brain is actually made up of tissue consisting largely of cholesterol, so it makes sense that we need some fat in our diet. It is also fairly well known that a lot of the research which went into the whole push towards low fat diets was funded by companies with financial interests in sugar, and the development of genetically modified frankenfoods. We are also seeing that sugar in particular is responsible for the newer influx of modern inflammation-caused disease, like diabetes, etc which is reportedly going to be one of the biggest killers of the new modern world. (This makes me sound very tinfoil hat, doesn’t it? I promise I’m not!!!)

It’s pretty horrifying that there is clear evidence of the harm that low fat high carb diets are doing to our health, yet we do nothing about it

I feel so sad I’ve got friends on statins aged 50, friends who are seriously ill from their obesity and the answers are not given to them when they are out there

This is so interesting. Does anyone have any links?

This is a pretty good article

www.google.co.uk/url?sa=i&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwiW-9LL8N3eAhVIVhoKHfhUA70QzPwBegQIARAC&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theatlantic.com%2Fhealth%2Farchive%2F2018%2F01%2Fthe-startling-link-between-sugar-and-alzheimers%2F551528%2F&psig=AOvVaw3-_0pH1kqYLw6m0_rcr6iR&ust=1542628357979966

@mooncuplanding - YES! Statins scare the shit out of me! My dad blamed them for his totally out of the usual demographic motor neurons disease. All the side effects that they tell you to work through when you start taking statins also happen to be the same as the first symptoms of motor neurone
disease.... suddenly more people are being diagnosed totally outside of the usual demographic, and most of them are on statins.

www.google.com.au/amp/s/drmalcolmkendrick.org/2018/04/09/statins-and-amyotrophic-lateral-sclerosis/amp/

drmalcolmkendrick.org/books-by-dr-malcolm-kendrick/the-great-cholesterol-con/

This book is quite comprehensive in breaking down the case for statins

It depends what you replace normal fat with. We all need SOME fat, olive oil to cook with and I use it on my bread not palm oil. Also we need the EFA s or essential fatty acids, provided by evening primrose and linseed oil. There's a great book by Liz Earle which explains the science.
justilou Have you tried giving up chicken to heal the migraines? dd2 did it and it worked!

My migraines unfortunately stem from my mother smoking heavily (deliberately) during pregnancy to remain slim. (She was anorexic.). I have lesions all through my brain. The high fat diet is supposed to help alleviate the migraines (along with anti-seizure meds - the types of migraines I have are not unrelated to epilepsy thanks to the damage to my developing brain... Thanks Mum.) So effectively, my brain looks like I've been smoking heavily for 90 years. Anyway, the high fat diet is supposed to help prevent further scarring. (Meanwhile, my skin is looking MUCH better than most women my age, so there could be something there......)

OH my goodness justi That evening primrose oil is lovely for everything though.

Well dgm ate fatty foods for England and she's in a nursing home with dementia! Alas correlation and causation are not the same thing - people with healthy low fat diets tend to live longer, dementia is a disease of old age!