Since my Dad had early onset dementia, I have been very interested in how to protect my brain health. I picked up "The Alzheimer's Prevention Cookbook" by Dr. Marwah Sabbagh and Beau MacMillan at the library and have armed myself with what I hope will be useful facts to keep my brain and my body healthy! There are also some delicious sounding recipes I would like to try but they are a little more time consuming than the plant-based ones I've been making from the "Happy Herbivore" cookbook series. Maybe I'll just look for the ingredients that are supposed to help me stay healthy!
Dr. Sabbagh makes a big deal about ORAC scores (as they relate to food) - Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity. I chose some of the foods and spices that he mentioned that are favorites of mine in several categories and I'm going to make a concerted effort to make sure I'm eating these regularly.
India has a very low incidence of Alzheimer's and it may be linked to their liberal use of the spice Turmeric. I've heard before about other health-enhancing properties of Turmeric so I just purchased a brand new bottle of that spice. Cinnamon is also another good one to use regularly.
I'm not going into all the recommended foods and reasons behind them but this book sounds very credible to me and Dr. Sabbagh is a geriartric neurologist and dementia specialist who is also the director of the Banner-Sun Health Research Institute which the fly leaf touts as one of the world's most prominent Alzheimer's disease research institutions. He is also a research professor of neurology at the University of Arizona College of Medicine in Phoenix so I'm going to make an assumption he knows what he is talking about.
The co-author, Chef Beau MacMillan, is executive chef at Sanctuary on Camelback Mountain.
If you're interested in brain health, I high recommend you look for this book. pazt
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