20 Things To Know About Alzheimer's Disease

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Bronwen Zilmer has three generations of Alzheimer's disease in her family. She hopes not to be the fourth. Her great-grandmother and grandmother had Alzheimer's disease. Her father's illness was diagnosed at 56, and he died at 63. She's now 35. After her father's death, the Highland Village, Texas, resident and mother of two began running half-marathons, taking fish oil supplements and eating more fish in hopes of avoiding the memory-robbing illness. "People are desperate to avoid it and desperate to find some kind of treatment or cure," she says. "If somebody told me, 'Do these 10 things and I'll assure you that you won't get Alzheimer's disease,' I would do it." Researchers agree that the causes of Alzheimer's have some genetic links, but they aren't sure exactly what they are how the disease progresses. Although more studies are examining how lifestyle choices may affect a person's risk of Alzheimer's, medical professionals disagree over the strength of the evidence.A National Institutes of Health independent consensus panel rejected a definitive scientific link between lifestyle habits and risk reduction in a 2010 report that said the amount of evidence and its quality was low. The panel called for more large-scale, randomized studies. Continue to read: detroitnews.com

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