Sugar on the Brain: Alzheimer’s Disease
What’s the story? Over the past decade, sugar has become an increasingly hot topic as a part of our diets. Updated recommendations have been in the news as rece...
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Overeating as a Cause for Alzheimer’s Disease
We all know that eating too much can cause obesity, stroke, heart failure, cancer and a load of other problems for our body, but does overeating have adverse co...
Obesity: Is it our fault?
This week we discussed an article that claims obesity is a brain disease and that over-nutritious diets change our brain chemistry. In contrast the to “eat les...
But, McDonald's tastes so good…
Most Americans are well aware that our country has a problem with obesity. Over one third of American adults are obese, that’s over 100 million people. M...
How is Type 2 Diabetes Affecting Your Ability to Learn and Form New Memories?
This week, our class discussed the detrimental effects of insulin resistance as seen in Type 2 diabetes mellitus. It has been established that Type 2 diabetes c...
Rethinking reasons for weight loss: Alzheimer’s and type II diabetes
I don’t mean to harp on body image and societal pressures too much. I know that this was my topic last week, but our article this week begs me to write a second...