Food And Brain: What Carbohydrates Do To Health, Thinking And Memory

Wisdom says that it is much easier to maintain order than to fix a mess. Treating an illness after you get sick is like digging a well when you're thirsty, or forging weapons when the war has already begun.
If you could ask your grandmothers and great-grandmothers what people died of when they were young, they would most likely say,
"from old age". Or they talked about those who contracted tuberculosis, cholera or dysentery and died suddenly. Today, chronic degenerative diseases are the most common cause of death for older people. They develop slowly, their symptoms accumulate and lead to serious complications. That is why people in their 80s and 90s usually don't die from one particular disease. The human body wears out over the course of life, like an old building that can no longer be repaired. The organism weakens, this condition progresses slowly and painfully until the body is completely destroyed.
The medical nightmare of the modern world is brain disease. If there is one fear that transcends all others, it is to fall victim to Alzheimer's or some other form of dementia in old age that robs us of the ability to think, reason, and remember. And this fear strikes not only the elderly,