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   Walnuts appear to delay onset of Alzheimer's disease, new study finds   
      
      
   By Fredrick Kunkle October 21     
      
   A handful of walnuts a day may help keep Alzheimer's disease at bay, a new   
   study has found.   
      
   Researchers at the New York State Institute for Basic Research in   
   Developmental Disabilities said experiments with Alzheimer's-susceptible mice   
   found that subjects that consumed walnuts showed significant improvement in   
   their learning skills and memory    
   compared with mice without them in their diet.   
      
   The study also found improvement in motor skills and reduction in anxiety. The   
   mice in the experiment consumed an amount of walnuts that would be the   
   equivalent for humans of eating about 1 to 1.5 ounces of walnuts a day.   
      
   Abha Chauhan , the lead researcher, said Monday that the study follows up on   
   previous work that found walnut extract offered protective benefits to the   
   oxidative damage caused by amyloid beta, a protein that has been implicated in   
   the dementia-causing    
   disease.   
      
   Previous studies have shown that walnuts -- whose meat has an uncanny   
   resemblance to the brain -- contain a number of compounds that help protect   
   the brain, including Omega-3 fatty acids, and perhaps ward off Alzheimer's.   
      
   The nuts also contain anti-oxidants and other components that combat the   
   effects of cell-killing stress and inflammation. In fact, Chauhan said,   
   walnuts rank second -- just behind blackberries -- on a list of 1,100 foods   
   with anti-oxidative properties.   
      
   In the latest study, the team, using wild mice and mice genetically altered to   
   be vulnerable to developing Alzheimer's disease, fed the animals custom-mixed   
   diets containing 6 percent or 9 percent walnuts and then subjected them to a   
   battery of    
   experiments and mazes that tested their spatial and learning ability and   
   psychomotor skills and coordination. The mice in a control group performed   
   much worse than the mice that consumed the walnut-enriched diet, the study   
   found.   
      
   The research -- which was funded in part by New York's Office for People with   
   Developmental Disabilities and partly by the California Walnut Commission,   
   which is a state agency funded by mandatory assessments on that state's walnut   
   growers, appeared    
   online in the October issue of the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease.   
      
      
      
   http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/walnuts-ap   
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