Food and Alzheimer’s Disease

Alzheimer’s disease is a dreaded and cruel condition that devastates more than 5 million Americans, a number that the Alzheimer’s Association expects to rise to 16 million by 2050. The most common form of dementia, it affects nearly 50% of those 85 years of age and older.

Simple, familiar mental tasks become arduous as those affected with Alzheimer’s lose their memory and intellectual abilities and experience personality changes and mood swings. Subjective awareness in patients’ cognitive loss re…