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CRYSTAL RIVER, Florida - More than four million Americans have Alzheimer's disease, and that figure is expected to pass 10 million in the coming decades. But some simple changes in lifestyle could help prevent Alzheimer's - changes in diet and exercise that anyone can make. A year ago, Don Roush spent all his waking hours in a silent funk. He was sinking into the gray fog of Alzheimer's disease. His wife Betty said, "He sat for months with his hand over his face, and never spoke a word, not good morning, not good night, nothing. And this went on for months." Betty said their son heard about River Oaks, an assisted living center in Florida. They offered the hope of mental restoration, with a five-part plan including two physical-mental components and three nutritional components. The first two aspects include physical exercises such as walking, and mental exercises like hobbies and conversation. The nutritional components included the noted Zone Diet, quality multivitamins with antioxidants, and high-grade fish oil. A businessman and handyman, Don did not even know what to do with a screwdriver any more. But after following this nutrition and exercise plan over the past months, Don Roush is back from Alzheimer's and can speak for himself: "All the doctors we went to, and all the money we spent, nothing happened out of it," Don said. "I mean we treated everything in the world, I mean we went all over, but we came here and a month later I walked out of here proud." And he proudly showed CBN News around their property, the riding lawn mower, four-wheeler, and he planted some rose bushes just where Betty wanted them on the side of their new house. Betty says the process has been very hard work and Don is not 100 percent, but he is home, and has his life back. But it is not just Don who has benefited from this new approach to treating chronic ailments. Betty also followed this lifestyle plan for herself, and amazingly, experienced dramatic improvement in her chronic asthma. Betty said, "And I came in for every meal while Don was here. And you know I got off the nebulizer, I got off oxygen, I got off of the inhalers." But wait just a minute, this is not supposed to happen. There is no drug, no cure, no "real" remedy for chronic conditions, especially Alzheimer's, right? Ask any doctor, researcher or disease support group. Despite that bias, Dan Ward, who runs River Oaks, began putting together a program to fight brain degeneration several years ago. Trained in psychology, Ward is part counselor, nutritionist, scientist, and physical therapist. For Stan Beck, a retired drug company pharmacist, the treatment at River Oaks may mean he will walk independently again. Seven years ago a stroke wreaked havoc on his brain. He was fading into total disability with diabetes and high blood pressure. Stan said, "My speech is somewhat better, although that's slow, I still have a little trouble with some things, of not being able to bring it back instantly like I used to." Stan's wife Charlotte remembered. "He was a vegetable. He couldn't sit up. I couldn't understand a word he said for two years," she said. Since then, his progress was minimal and sporadic even with the best medical help money can buy. Finally last fall, a leading neurologist looked at Stan's brain scans and said there was nothing that could be done to help him. Stressed by years of caring for her stroke-stricken husband, Charlotte herself was suffering nerve damage and disability linked to a poor diet and a rare disease called porphyria. After joining her husband in his nutritional regimen, she says she is back to her old self. Article Continued In Next Column Your Health Freedom May Be At Risk! Check Our CODEX/Activism Section | Main Articles Page | |
So, what is Dan Ward's secret? He says the key is putting everything that science says is good for the brain all together at one time. And that includes Barry Sears' Zone Diet laid out in several books. That diet enables enough blood sugar to fuel the brain just right, too much or too little is harmful. And that food minimizes brain-damaging inflammation, too. Sears explained, "At each meal you divide your plate into three sections. On one third of the plate, you put some low-fat protein that's no bigger and no thicker on your plate. The other two-thirds of your plate you fill it 'til it's overflowing with fruits and vegetables, and then you add a dash, that's a small amount, of monounsaturated fat." The best monounsaturated fat is extra virgin olive oil, the kind Betty Roush uses to sauté broccoli. Chef Hal Howard helps create the River Oaks version of the Zone Diet. About five years ago, he became worried about his mother Margaret who had become reclusive. Hal said, "Mom didn't just go into her room one day and lock herself in. It was over a period of time, maybe a year, a year and a half, you know, she wasn't interacting with anybody." Margaret said, "It was a nightmare, I just pulled myself away and that's what happened." Seeing the mental benefits of diet, supplements, and exercise, Hal began bringing her to work every day so she could eat there. Margaret said, "I do, I do enjoy living." Her son, Hal, said, "Mom's blood sugar is where it's supposed to be, her blood pressure is where it's supposed to be, her eyesight is good, she's in a lot better condition than she was four years ago." With that kind of restoration, physician and neuroscientist Russell Blaylock gave two thumbs up to the efforts at River Oaks. He said, "What they're doing is certainly a major step in the right direction and their results demonstrate that." Blaylock applauded the use of fish oil. Fish oil contains so-called omega-3 fats. Those fatty acids include two healthful components known as EPA and DHA. Blaylock said, "We know the brain uses an enormous amount of these omega-3 fatty acids, particularly the DHA component. Now the baby's brain as it forms needs a lot of it, but so do adults, because we have brain plasticity, that means we are constantly restructuring our brains until the day you die." And the DHA and EPA components fight the inflammation that is so destructive to brain cells. Ward says, after seeing marked improvement in brain function and mobility in more than 300 older people, he is convinced feeding the brain what it needs most will keep many folks from literally losing their minds. Ward said, "When you not only do the physical and exercise stimulation component, but you add a diet that is ideally suited to help the brain grow, which we know it can do in old age, prevent it from deteriorating, which inappropriate diet and so will do, we've gotten phenomenal improvements in people, much like the retarded who are written off and people who are written off mentally, severe Alzheimer's, severe Parkinson's Disease, multiple sclerosis and so on." While the so-called magic bullets of single approaches against Alzheimer's continue to miss their target, the magic shotgun of combined approaches is showing more than promise, it is producing amazing results. Since CBN News first brought you this story a few months ago, things have changed a bit at River Oaks. The facility no longer takes patients who need full time nursing care. Instead, Dan Ward now focuses his nutritional program on people who are not yet in a nursing home, and helps them learn a new way of eating and exercising so they can continue to live on their own Your Health Freedom May Be At Risk! Check Our CODEX/Activism Section | Main Articles Page | |
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