October 24, 2007

12:10: The health roundup with Jay, Jamie and Jimmy.

12:20: Tonight’’s the night! Tonight is the big Stroke Prevention Awareness Night!
Guest: Gail MacKenzie, Clinical Nurse Specialist, Stroke Prevention Clinic, Neuroscience Ambulatory Centre, Hamilton General Hospital.

12:35: Ever been to a registered massage therapist? If not, you haven’’t lived!
Guest: Hope Jervis, Registered Massage Therapist.

12:45: DayNight Pharmacy segment.
Guest: Irene.

Irene talked about the Mediterranean diet can lower Alzheimer's Risk!

The Mediterranean diet may be brain food, according to a community-based study ! The research published in the Archives of Internal Medicine, adds to an ever-growing list of research supporting the health benefits of consuming a traditional Mediterranean diet (TMD) with evidence linking the diet to lower incidence of heart disease, obesity, certain types of cancers and may even fend off Alzheimer's disease. The effect was strongest in people who followed a Mediterranean type diet most religiously, according to the Archives of Neurology. The diet is also rich in protective benefits such as antioxidant or anti-inflammatory properties. The dietary supplements containing a prominent Mediterranean diet component "omega-3 fatty acids" may reduce the rate of cognitive decline in people with the mildest of Alzheimer's disease. Omega-3 didn't seem to slow down the more advanced forms of dementia. The study suggested that "an overall dietary pattern is likely to have a greater effect on health than a single nutrient". The Mediterranean diet is characterized by a high intake of vegetables, legumes, fruits, cereals and a high intake of unsaturated fatty acids ( mostly olive oil) but a low intake of saturated fatty acids; a moderately high intake of fish, a low moderate intake of dairy products ( mostly cheese and yogurt) ; a low intake of meat and poultry and a regular but moderate intake of alcohol, primarily wine with meals. The conclusion stated regarding the morality risk, subjects had a longer survival rate, 3.91 years longer !
Another reason to eat your veggies!