What did I eat last night?
I guess I'll have to find a new excuse for why I can't remember last nights curry then!
US researchers have isolated a compound in turmeric - commonly used in the UK's national dish chicken tikka masala and other more deadly curry concoctions - which "may help stimulate immune system cells that gobble up the brain-clogging proteins that mark Alzheimer's disease", Reuters reports. Dr Milan Fiala of the University …
If the indicator of reduced symptoms was simply "What did you eat for dinner last night?" then the results may have been less to do with curcuminoids and more to do with digestive discomfort. ;-)
i.e. Even the most confused of alzheimer sufferers might assume an answer of "curry" if they're backfiring like a G-reg Skoda.
And Grapefruit gives you breast cancer, just because something in natural doesn't make it better or worse than any drug. Which is what this isolated compound will become. Infact it also showed very bad interactions with other drugs or very good interactions in some cases, depending on the result.
This is great news that they have new proof of helping Alzheimers patients, but just like anything else including Super Foods, Herbal Remedies and other amulet methods of protection it will be reported with no understanding by the rest of the media. To rant some more, you can be fat and fit, alcohol isnt good for you, smoking before 30 doesn't give you cancer.
When my father was dying from Alzheimer's five years ago I did enough research to turn up the connection between curcumin and reduced risk of Alzheimer's without much trouble and that was 2001- 2002 mind you.
For the bloke that wanted the incidence statistics go to:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=11571321&dopt=Abstract
or:
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6T0G-4KWTFMH-2&_user=4429&_coverDate=10%2F23%2F2006&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_sort=d&view=c&_acct=C000059602&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=4429&md5=d4269f15c71cffcf3552999d6a7d56c6
There might well be more current data - I recall reading the University of California published some newer data in 2005, but don't have the URL.
Note the date on the first article - 2001 - hardly new information. This has been written about for some 5-6 years in medical press - I wonder why it's being presented as news today?
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