Preventing Alzheimer's

The Centers for Disease Control says: Right now, 5.8 million Americans over age 65 live with Alzheimer's disease. Speaker1: And that number could double by the year 2050, just 22 years from now. This from Kansas State University extension food scientist Karen Blakeslee. And on the medical front, of. Speaker2: Course, science is trying to find some miracle to prevent this. But while medical researchers try to develop medicines and such that could prevent, cure or reduce the effects of Alzheimer's and dementia, it turns out there are things all of us can do to help ourselves at least a little bit. And it involves simply eating more of certain vegetables and fruits. And you may laugh at this, but Karen says this is verified by a huge study that was done at Tufts University in Boston by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Human Nutrition Center on Aging, a study trying to discover. Speaker2: How foods can affect dementia and Alzheimer's disease. Speaker1: Or if foods make any difference. Now, before we give you the results, we need to tell you that we're talking about a massive study. Speaker2: The large number of people and the long term helps give a very big picture. Speaker1: When it comes to reducing the risk and or the severity of Alzheimer's and dementia. Speaker2: Foods that contain flavonoids, which is a large class of dietary sources of nutrients, can be beneficial. Those that did consume fruits and vegetables that were high in flavonoid compounds were at least 50% less likely to get dementia.