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food & drink
Coffee
protects the Brain?
Patients with Parkinson's
disease (a Brain
disease that causes tremors-shaking,
stiffness, slowness
and instability-loss
of balance in older people)
according to a study from Germany's
Otto-von-Guericke University, drink
less Coffee than people without the
disease. The article published in the Neurology
Journal, talks about Diet
and specific
Nutrients
role, in the disease which can cause death years
later, if not managed adequately.
Parkinson's
may have hereditary,
environmental and
infectious
causes leading to a decrease in the brain chemical
Dopamine
and others. People with Parkinson's may live
as long as other people with treatment and
care.
Reference
· Diet
and Parkinson's disease. II A possible role
for the past intake of specific nutrients.
Results from a self-administered food frequency
questionnaire in a case control study[see
comments]. Hellenbrand W-
Neurology-1996 Sep; 47(3): 644-50. From NIH/NLM
MEDLINE, HealthSTAR.
edited
by T. Farhat, MD - 2001
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