Brainstorm

Conventional wisdom holds that Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease, in their most common forms, are progressive neurodegenerative afflictions of aging, and there's no cure. But at a medical meeting I attended last week, a Massachusetts neuroscientist suggested that they are looking more and more like lifestyle diseases, the cumulative effects of unhealthy eating patterns, and that ridiculously simple dietary changes can reverse some symptoms and slow the disease process. Just as I was digesting that bit of info I stumbled across evidence that the prostate problems men commonly experience as they age may similarly result from years of eating a diet too rich in red meat and fats. Read More