Vitamin C can keep Alzheimer’s at bay

Berlin, September 12, 2012, PTI:
Intake of Vitamin C in the diet can help keep the Alzheimer’s disease at bay, according to a new study.

The study by German scientists found that the levels of antioxidants Vitamin C and beta-carotene in the blood are lower in patients with dementia than in people without it.

Scientists said that it might thus be possible to influence the pathogenesis of Alzheimer’s by a person’s diet or dietary antioxidants.

Gabriele Nagel and Christine von Arnim, professors of epidemiology and neurology from the University of Ulm, Germany, have discovered that the concentration of vitamin C and beta-carotene in blood are significantly lower in patients with mild dementia than in people without them.............
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