Sugar and Your Brain: Is Alzheimer’s Disease Actually Type 3 Diabetes?

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="http://www.smh.com.au/ffximage/2008/12/05/donuts_lead_wideweb__470x234,0.jpg" class="decoded" src="http://www.smh.com.au/ffximage/2008/12/05/donuts_lead_wideweb__470x234,0.jpg" /></div>Photo Credit:www.smh.com.au <br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">'It starves your brain, tangles and twists vital cells, and for decades it has been misrepresented as an untreatable, genetically determined disease. Alzheimer's disease is the 6th leading cause of death in North America1. The truth, however, is that this devastating illness shares a strong link with another sickness that wreaks havoc on millions of individuals in North America — Diabetes.</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">We all know that individuals affected by Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes have a notable resistance to insulin. Type 1 is caused by the body's inability to produce insulin, and Type 2 is caused by the deterioration of the body's insulin receptors and associated with the consumption of too much refined carbohydrate like processed grains and sugar. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">But when studies began to appear in 2005 that revealed a shocking correlation between insulin and brain cell deterioration, major breaks were made around Alzheimer's prevention[i]. Health practitioners became curious about a critical question — could Alzheimer's disease simply be Type 3 Diabetes?'</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;">Read <a href="http://www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/sugar-and-your-brain-alzheimer%E2%80%99s-disease-actually-type-3-diabetes">more... </a></span>

Sugar and Your Brain: Is Alzheimer’s Disease Actually Type 3 Diabetes?

Photo Credit:www.smh.com.au 'It starves your brain, tangles and twists vital cells, and for decades it has been misrepresented as an unt...

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