Alzheimer’s disease, which means 5.3 million Americans are living with Alzheimer’s disease right now and unless a cure is found more than 16 million Americans will have Alzheimer’s by the year 2050.
While we continue to search for cures, however, it is important that we also understand the power of prevention. Learning how to prevent certain illnesses requires us to understand just how we function on the inside.
As human beings, we are all made up of many different cells and each cell in our body has its own special function.
Just like all the other cells in our bodies, our brain cells use a form of sugar called glucose as our fuel. So basically if you think of a cell as a car, the glucose is the gas.
So the most important first step toward being more kind to our mind is to feed it the right foods.
The FDA recommends that Americans consume no more than 50 grams of added sugar a day. This is something that we should all focus on doing.
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