{"id":233,"date":"2008-12-08T21:31:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-09T02:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.majik.org\/cruxenrose\/?p=233"},"modified":"2008-12-08T21:31:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-09T02:31:00","slug":"junk-food-may-lead-to-alzheimers-symptoms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.majik.org\/cruxenrose\/junk-food-may-lead-to-alzheimers-symptoms\/","title":{"rendered":"Junk Food may lead to Alzheimer&#8217;s symptoms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/scienceNews\/idUSTRE4AR48G20081128\">Reuters &#8211; <\/a>Mice fed junk food for nine months showed signs of developing the abnormal brain tangles strongly associated with Alzheimer&#8217;s disease, a Swedish researcher said. The findings, which come from a series of published papers by a researcher at Sweden&#8217;s Karolinska Institutet, show how a diet rich in fat, sugar and cholesterol could increase the risk of the most common type of dementia. &#8220;On examining the brains of these mice, we found a chemical change not unlike that found in the Alzheimer brain,&#8221; Susanne Akterin, a researcher at the Karolinska Institutet&#8217;s Alzheimer&#8217;s Disease Research Center, who led the study, said in a statement. &#8220;We now suspect that a high intake of fat and cholesterol in combination with genetic factors &#8230; can adversely affect several brain substances, which can be a contributory factor in the development of Alzheimer&#8217;s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; Mice fed junk food for nine months showed signs of developing the abnormal brain tangles strongly associated with Alzheimer&#8217;s disease, a Swedish researcher said. The findings, which come from a series of published papers by a researcher at Sweden&#8217;s Karolinska Institutet, show how a diet rich in fat, sugar and cholesterol could increase [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[183,184,185,113,187,186],"class_list":["post-233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","tag-alzheimers","tag-intake-of-fat-and-cholesterol","tag-junk-food","tag-nutrition","tag-science","tag-studies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.majik.org\/cruxenrose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.majik.org\/cruxenrose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.majik.org\/cruxenrose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.majik.org\/cruxenrose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.majik.org\/cruxenrose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.majik.org\/cruxenrose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":234,"href":"https:\/\/www.majik.org\/cruxenrose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions\/234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.majik.org\/cruxenrose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.majik.org\/cruxenrose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.majik.org\/cruxenrose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}