Apple juice helpful in Alzheimer's

Apple juice helps with mood swings in the course of Alzheimer's disease.

(16.06.2010) According to a study by the University of Massachusetts-Lowell, apple juice can be helpful in mood swings in Alzheimer's patients. According to the study results published in the scientific journal "American Journal of Alzheimer's Disease and Other Dementias", two glasses of apple juice per day are enough to prevent mood swings in patients with Alzheimer's disease.

In the course of the study, the subjects drank two glasses of apple juice per day over a one-month period. Based on the results it could be evaluated that certain mental mood swings could be alleviated. Thus, improvements in fears, restlessness and delusions were achieved by drinking apple juice. Study lead Ruth Remington said the findings show that fruit and vegetable juices can delay the onset as well as "the progression of Alzheimer's disease." In previous studies similar observations could be made. It shows once again, which force nature can develop with simple means in illnesses. (Sb)

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