{"id":7767,"date":"2016-08-28T15:08:33","date_gmt":"2016-08-28T15:08:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=7767"},"modified":"2016-08-28T15:08:33","modified_gmt":"2016-08-28T15:08:33","slug":"traditional-diet-is-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/traditional-diet-is-best\/","title":{"rendered":"Traditional diet is best\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gmail_default\">Consuming traditional diets of countries such as India, Japan and Nigeria &#8211; which have lower meat content than the Western diet &#8211; may significantly reduce the risk of Alzheimer&#8217;s disease, a new study has found.<\/p>\n<p>Globally, about 42 million people now have dementia, with Alzheimer&#8217;s disease as the most common type of dementia. Rates of Alzheimer&#8217;s disease are rising worldwide.<\/p>\n<div>\u00a0The most important risk factors seem to be linked to diet, especially the consumption of meat, sweets, and high-fat dairy products that characterise a Western Diet.<\/div>\n<p>For example, when Japan made the nutrition transition from the traditional Japanese diet to the Western diet, Alzheimer&#8217;s disease rates rose from 1 per cent in 1985 to 7 per cent in 2008, with rates lagging the nutrition transition by 20-25 years.<\/p>\n<p>The evidence of these risk factors, which come from ecological and observational studies, also shows that fruits, vegetables, grains, low-fat dairy products, legumes, and fish are associated with reduced risk.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Consuming traditional diets of countries such as India, Japan and Nigeria &#8211; which have lower meat content than the Western diet &#8211; may significantly reduce the risk of Alzheimer&#8217;s disease, a new study has found. Globally, about 42 million people now have dementia, with Alzheimer&#8217;s disease as the most common type of dementia. Rates of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3287,510,3284,3285,3289,3288,3286],"class_list":["post-7767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-top-stories","tag-alzheimer","tag-india","tag-japan","tag-nigeria","tag-nutrition-transition","tag-traditional-diets","tag-western-diet"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7767\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}