Brain Diabetes: An Absolute Food Nightmare

Alzheimer's disease is called brain diabetes

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The human brain has evolved in the direction of finding food high in fat and sugar, but the advantage that arose to ensure survival in the era of abundance has turned into a self-destructive irresistible craving, writes New Scientist.

The connection between diabetes mellitus and Alzheimer's disease is devoted to the editorial article of the issue in the printed version of the publication. The title of this publication "Brain diabetes: an absolute food nightmare" (Brain diabetes: the ultimate food scare) is placed on the cover of the magazine.

It is known that obesity and diabetes can be caused by poor nutrition. As New Scientist notes, "recently, more and more data have been emerging that point to the same nature of Alzheimer's disease, and therefore some researchers consider this neurodegenerative disease as another form of diabetes."

"If this is true, then the link between the two diseases has disastrous consequences," the publication notes. "The world has already faced an epidemic of diabetes, the prospect of a parallel epidemic of Alzheimer's disease in terms of the suffering it will cause people, as well as material costs, is really frightening," the publication writes.

One of the ways to prevent this threat, according to New Scientist experts, may be the intervention of lawyers. Attempts have already been made to bring companies providing catering services to court for their assistance in the development of the obesity epidemic, and if the causal relationship between fatty, sugary foods and Alzheimer's disease is confirmed, the number of such lawsuits is likely to increase, the authors of the publication believe.

Earlier this year, two independent groups of scientists published the results of studies that showed a link between changes in the metabolism of insulin signaling pathway proteins and the formation of amyloid plaques in neurons characteristic of Alzheimer's disease. In particular, it was shown that an increase in the concentration of beta-amyloid protein, which is the cause of the formation of amyloid plaques, occurs as a result of a violation of the basic level of activity of insulin signaling pathway molecules in the brain.

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According to the results of other experiments, the idea was put forward that insulin resistance of brain cells should be considered a characteristic early sign of Alzheimer's disease. This allowed scientists to conditionally attribute neurodegenerative disease to type three diabetes.

Researchers predict that by 2015, Alzheimer's disease may affect about 115 million people worldwide.

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