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In reply to the discussion: Great News! Alzheimer's breakthrough hailed as 'turning point' [View all]Orrex
(63,760 posts)142. It's not that simple
And I was replying to the petty and irrelevant post in this subthread, not to post #25.
To be clear for everybody, exercise and diet are beneficial for preventing, delaying, or slowing dementia, but is not a cure and will not be effective for everybody even though it is effective for many people and probably most people.
That statement is so open-ended as to be almost entirely worthless.
What you're saying boils down to "exercise and diet prevent dementia except when they don't, and they work for some people but not for the people for whom they don't work."
Since exercise and diet have manifold benefits for many conditions it should be no surprise that studies find more and more conditions that benefit, including dementia.
That is a statement of conjecture, and at best it falls into the "no shit" category. Of course, it does nothing for the great many people for whom diet and exercise have not delayed, prevented, or ameliorated dementia, but I guess that's okay when you're advocating for non-falsifiable feel-goodism.
In short, you're very big on soft, open-ended proclamations and rather weak on verifiable results.
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something like this cannot be posted too often. people could have missed the other post, you know.
niyad
Oct 2013
#45
Coconut oil? What blather is that? And did you read the bleeding article? No you
Bluenorthwest
Oct 2013
#8
Are you upset that some ppl use diet and exercise instead of prescription drugs to remain healthy?
tridim
Oct 2013
#34
So you prescribe firing all scientists as a cure for "Big pharma"? Wow.
Bernardo de La Paz
Oct 2013
#81
Writing clearly is a great way to making successful posts. I recommend you try it. nt
Bernardo de La Paz
Oct 2013
#86
So, getting paid is now evil in your book. You work for free. Very kind of you. Thank you. nt
Bernardo de La Paz
Oct 2013
#80
Ok, say it then. You think Big Pharma is NOT evil. If you think they are "wonderful", you can too.
Bernardo de La Paz
Oct 2013
#96
You are. Your post 43: "Actually, big pharma is scientists." You equate them.
Bernardo de La Paz
Oct 2013
#88
Right. Equating them is not making that distinction. You need to write such distinctions clearly.nt
Bernardo de La Paz
Oct 2013
#97
You used the word "is" which is equating them. Your choice of word. nt
Bernardo de La Paz
Oct 2013
#137
Even better than a drug, they might find dietary items that would fight it.
Bernardo de La Paz
Oct 2013
#15
I should have used the word "prevent", consistent with notion of activities that prevent it listed.
Bernardo de La Paz
Oct 2013
#27
Not sure if "that claim" refers to the OP or my post, but here is some information
Bernardo de La Paz
Oct 2013
#33
Your strawman. Only you are claiming anyone is claiming foods "cure" a brain disease. nt
Bernardo de La Paz
Oct 2013
#100
Or you could go read the first post I responded to, which claimed coconut oil was a cure. (nt)
jeff47
Oct 2013
#128
That post #7 never mentions "cure". You are the only one talking about a cure. nt
Bernardo de La Paz
Oct 2013
#136
It presents it as a treatment in place of the one in the OP. That means "cure". (nt)
jeff47
Oct 2013
#139
Only you would think that "treatment" means "cure" or that prevention means "cure".
Bernardo de La Paz
Oct 2013
#141
You attack a non exist antecedent and claim therefore the science is junk.
Bernardo de La Paz
Oct 2013
#103
Your post has binary thinking again & you confuse adding an additional means with replacing one. nt
Bernardo de La Paz
Oct 2013
#135
See my post 33. Diet, exercise, & stimulation are very effective & can slow progression of the
Bernardo de La Paz
Oct 2013
#36
1) Parkinsons is not dementia. 2) Diet won't help everybody but it will help many.
Bernardo de La Paz
Oct 2013
#104
You are free to stop exercising and sit on a couch watching TV with bags of chips if you want to.
Bernardo de La Paz
Oct 2013
#123
I posted meaningfully supportive references about exercise early in the thread.
Bernardo de La Paz
Oct 2013
#140
I think the only benefit of that would b its semi-meditative aspect, slightly helpful to gen. health
Bernardo de La Paz
Oct 2013
#121
I am forever bemoaning the fact that virtually no money is spent to try to figure out
kestrel91316
Oct 2013
#54
I wonder if Michael Fox could use his celebrity status to be part of a controlled trial.
randome
Oct 2013
#57