I agree. My mom is an ice cream demon. But at this point (going on 10 years) it makes her happy. Did it accelerate her disease? Perhaps.
If I had known this 15 years ago, could I have influenced her dietary choices? I doubt it. :(
Same with my mother in law. Lived on ice cream.
Sugar can utilize the thiamine or B-1 vitamin which in turn decreases activity in the dentate gyrus, which interacts with the hippocampus (inhibiting memory retrieval). It also inhibits the citric acid or Krebs Cycle from producing ATP aerobically and creates severe fatigue.
If she constantly consumes ice cream and sleeps upright in a chair rather than the bed, have her checked for a GE junction obstruction such as cancer. Another indication of this is a B-12 deficiency where she needs injections to stop pernacious anemia and/or depression. The cancer in the fundus (upper stomach near the GE junction) causes the parietal cells to not produce the intrinsic factor necessary to protect the B-12 as it goes through the stomach acid which destroys it.
Ice cream is considered a liquid and can find a path through a constricted esophageal sphincter while solid foods will create severe coughing and blockage.
Very true. Now, knowing she doesn’t have a ton of t8me ahead of her here, I give her one dessert a day. But it is her choices 20 yearsa fo that would have made any different, if it is diet.
And I’m not sure that starving or low cal will help. Holocaust survivors as well as perpetually dieting women still get it. Eating the bad fats seems to give you inflammation and heart disease but no huge correlation to Alz. There could theoretically be some infectious agent that we haven’t discovered yet... I’d like more research to go into prevention rather than some drug. Who doesn’t get it, and why not?