June 15, (PRINTWORDS NEWS) A recent scientific study suggests that eating healthy diet regularly or engaging the mind in constant activity does not ensure that the patient will never get affected by Alzheimer or cognitive memory loss. The study was conducted by a group of researchers put together by the U.S. National Institutes of Health who conducted a lifestyle survey of around 165 people. The researchers took into consideration not only the regular diet and but also the medications the people received. Apart from these environmental factors and behavioral factors and genetic makeup were also taken into consideration. But the study revealed that there are very insufficient data to conclude that exercising regularly, eating died that is rich in omega-3 fatty acids will help a person to avoid Alzheimer.
The report has been published in the website of the “Annals of Internal Medicine” dated June 15. The research was carried out by a panel that was headed by Dr. Martha L. Daviglus, a professor of preventive medicine at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University. The study maintains that while exercising regularly, eating Mediterranean diet, and being physically active might decrease the risk of becoming a victim of these diseases, there are not many evidences that can lead the scientists or the researchers to conclude their influences. It says that the study has found that the evidence is “too weak to justify strongly recommending them to patients”. The panel was also not satisfied with the evidences which would suggest that the gene marker APOEe4, depression and metabolic syndrome can be associated with the higher risk of cognitive decline.
However, all is not as depressing as the panel’s reports have found. Even members of the panel suggest that there are many researches going on in this field of Alzheimer’s treatment and that nothing could be said as of yet about the future of the Alzheimer’s treatment. Carl C. Bell, M.D. who is the director of the Institute for Juvenile Research said that the panel had to follow the science and that in the study conducted by the panel rigorous scientific standards were put to use to judge and measures that were said to decrease the risk of Alzheimer. The panel did not find the measures convincing and that is what the report has maintained. However, Carl C. Bell mentions that there “is no hard science right now”. Dr. Martha Daviglus, MD, PhD, MPH who chaired the panel says that though there is no hard science now in this field, there is no reason to conclude that there would not be any in coming years. According to her great promising researches are being carried out in this field and that those researches would definitely yield results.
There are many other people who have voiced that the published study is highly pessimistic. The associate director of the Alzheimer’s Center at the University of California, Los Angeles, Dr. Greg M. Cole said “I found the report to be overly pessimistic and sometimes mistaken in their conclusions, which are largely drawn from epidemiology, which is almost always inherently inconclusive”. However, one thing that all agree is that nothing as of yet could be concluded about the factors that increase or decrease the risk of cognitive retardation. But the cases of Alzheimer are increasing every day and reports show that around 5.3 million Americans are suffering from Alzheimer.
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