{"id":23915,"date":"2019-07-15T10:11:29","date_gmt":"2019-07-15T00:11:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=23915"},"modified":"2019-09-18T23:10:23","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T13:10:23","slug":"the-startling-link-between-sugar-and-alzheimers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=23915","title":{"rendered":"The Startling Link Between Sugar and Alzheimer\u2019s"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Cupcakes.jpg\" alt=\"The Startling Link Between Sugar and Alzheimer\u2019s\" class=\"wp-image-23916\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Cupcakes.jpg 720w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Cupcakes-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In recent years, Alzheimer\u2019s disease has occasionally been referred to as \u201ctype 3\u201d diabetes, though that moniker doesn\u2019t make much sense. After all, though they share a problem with insulin, type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease, and type 2 diabetes is a chronic disease caused by diet. Instead of another type of diabetes, it\u2019s increasingly looking like Alzheimer\u2019s is another potential side effect of a sugary, Western-style diet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In some cases, the path from sugar to Alzheimer\u2019s leads through type 2 diabetes, but as a new study and others show, that\u2019s not always the case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A longitudinal study, published in the journal Diabetologia, followed 5,189 people over 10 years and found that people with high blood sugar had a faster rate of cognitive decline than those with normal blood sugar\u2014whether or not their blood-sugar level technically made them diabetic. In other words, the higher the blood sugar, the faster the cognitive decline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/getpocket.com\/explore\/item\/the-startling-link-between-sugar-and-alzheimer-s\">https:\/\/getpocket.com\/explore\/item\/the-startling-link-between-sugar-and-alzheimer-s<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In recent years, Alzheimer\u2019s disease has occasionally been referred to as \u201ctype 3\u201d diabetes, though that moniker doesn\u2019t make much sense. After all, though they share a problem with insulin, type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease, and type 2 diabetes is a chronic disease caused by diet. Instead of another type of diabetes, it\u2019s &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=23915\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Startling Link Between Sugar and Alzheimer\u2019s&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-health-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23915"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23917,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23915\/revisions\/23917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}