8 hours of Fox; Coca Cola; Oreo Cookies; and McDonald Cheeseburgers

[tomhagen]

BTW; Dementia is Type 3 Diabetes of the Brain; caused by sugar and white flour.

[Gothmog]

1. Trump has been showing signs of senility for some time

[jalan48]

2. No wonder many Americans like him-he's just like them.

[librechik]

3. and a cheeto power wash--or a broken tanning bed. n/t

[silverweb]

4. Wow. I had to look that up.

Type 3 diabetes is something I'd never heard of before, let alone its connection with Alzheimer's disease, but it's real and documented by no less than the National Institutes of Health: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2769828/

[tomhagen]

6. Just read Grain Brain. Grains turn directly into sugar.

[silverweb]

7. Thanks, I will.

There's been more than case of presumed Alzheimer's disease in my dad's family, but I always thought his dementia didn't follow the usual Alzheimer's progression. Before it got bad and while he still made his own food choices, he avoided sugar (except for 1/4 tsp in his coffee) and ate very little in the way of bread or pasta. He was a meat-and-veggies guy.

With this new information, my opinion that he had vascular dementia rather than Alzheimer's is strengthened. He also had severe peripheral vascular disease, which is consistent with that.

Thanks for the information and the book recommendation.

[Cryptoad]

5. And they sit around with their thumbs up their asses wondering

"why he talking funny?"