It's time for Dishing Up Nutrition with licensed nutritionist Darlene Cavist.

Each week, Darlene explains a connection between what you eat and how you feel.

Stay tuned to hear practical, real-life solutions for healthier living through good nutrition.

Dishing up nutrition is brought to you by nutritional weight and wellness.

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to the show know we take our nutrition very seriously.

All of our nutritionists, dietitian, nutrition educators walk the talk, and I am proud of them.

They really practice what they preach.

Now, my job today is to get you to take nutrition as seriously as seriously as we do at

nutritional weight and wellness. Seriously. That's what I'm trying to talk about. So one way I believe

to convince you is to share some current research. So here goes. Do you realize that almost

seven million people in the U.S. have some type of dementia,

and in this category of memory loss, Alzheimer's disease makes up the largest percentage of people

with serious memory problems. Wow. You know, we're not talking about a few senior moments,

but serious memory problems, such as not being able to recognize your own child.

It is projected in the next 30 years the number of people with dementia will double to 14 million.

Wow.

So you must be asking why the increase. Well, here's a possible solution. A large

study conducted in Japan reported people with diabetes are twice as likely to develop Alzheimer's

disease. So now if you have diabetes are pre-diabetic, which usually means you have poor glucose

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