This is a clip from the CNN documentary "The Last Alzheimer's Patient." For the first time, Alzheimer's symptoms have been reversed in a controlled clinical study. The patients switched to a whole-foods plant-based diet, and began exercising three times a week for about 20 minutes. Most likely, similar benefits would be seen simply by including more vegetables and fruits in your diet, especially raw ones (like salads and apple slices), eating more whole foods (like baked potatoes, rice, nuts, raisins, etc), reducing processed and junk foods, eliminating fried foods altogether, eating organic whenever practical, exercising even just 10 mins per day, increasing water intake, and restricting meat primarily to white chicken meat (breast or tenderloins) and low-mercury fish such as salmon, tilapia, sardines, and shrimp. These lifestyle changes will go a long way to preventing almost every disease, including Alzheimer's and dementia.<br /><br />It would be helpful to at least make healthier substitutions. For example, regular chips are deep fried in oil. You can switch to baked chips instead. Better yet, try air-popped popcorn (Presto makes good air poppers). Breaded chicken/fish is also typically deep fried in oil. Have air fried chicken/fish instead (like the kind made by Tyson and Gorton’s). These substitutions go a long way, along with eating more organic. Although some organic foods don’t taste as good, usually this is not true. It depends entirely on the company. Often, the price won’t even be that much more.<br /><br />Pesticides have neurotoxic effects, which aren’t good for the brain and body. In the long term, all of the toxins in food cause disease. People eat toxic food their entire lives, along with excessive amounts of artery-clogging animal fats, and then they wonder why their bodies begin to fall apart. This is largely explained away as “aging,” but this is just a convenient excuse that allows them to avoid the real issue. More and more, we are discovering that most of what we considered to be the aging process, is actually just the cumulative effect of various diseases caused by food toxins and lack of exercise. Yes, you will become more regal in appearance as the years go by. Your skin may get a bit more wrinkled, and your hair may turn whiter, but your body does not have to become diseased or fall apart as you get older. That’s a complete misconception. If you eat well and exercise regularly, chances are that you will remain fairly strong and vibrant even until the end. It’s also a misconception that eating well involves giving up tasty foods. For almost any food you can think of, there are many healthier substitutions that taste almost identical.<br />
