{"id":7784,"date":"2009-06-03T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-03T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/06\/03\/a-weekly-curry-may-fight-dementia-says-scientist\/"},"modified":"2009-06-03T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-03T12:00:00","slug":"a-weekly-curry-may-fight-dementia-says-scientist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/06\/03\/a-weekly-curry-may-fight-dementia-says-scientist\/","title":{"rendered":"A Weekly Curry May Fight Dementia, Says Scientist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/health\/8080630.stm\">news.bbc.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>UK, June 3, 2009: Eating a curry once or twice a week could help prevent the onset of Alzheimer&#8217;s disease and dementia, a US researcher suggested in a presentation at the Royal College of Psychiatrists&#8217; annual meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Curcumin, a component of the spice turmeric, appears to prevent the spread of amyloid protein plaques in the brain&#8211;formations which are thought to contribute to the development of dementia.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Murali Doraiswamy of Duke University, North Carolina, said there is evidence that people who eat a curry meal two or three times a week have a lower risk of dementia. Prof. Doraiswami said also that a curcumin-rich diet has been demonstrated to dissolve amyloid plaques in the brains of laboratory animals and to prevent younger mice from forming new plaques. &#8220;The next step is to test curcumin on human amyloid plaque formation using newer brain scans, and there are plans for that.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Some UK experts, however, have been skeptical. Rebecca Wood, of the Alzheimer&#8217;s Research Trust, stressed that people would need to eat a lot of curry &#8211; over 100g of turmeric curry powder &#8211; to get a clinical dose of curcumin and cautioned that Prof. Doraiswamy&#8217;s hypothesis has not been confirmed in human clinical trials.<\/p>\n<p>[HPI note: As most readers will know, some curry powders contain a significant amount of turmeric, the beneficial component mentioned in this report, while others contain little or none.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: news.bbc.co.uk UK, June 3, 2009: Eating a curry once or twice a week could help prevent the onset of,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}