The newsroom of Ukmedix prides itself with being up to date with all new research on weight loss and obesity. Recently a new research project that we have been looking at here shows that elderly people who consume a diet that is high in copper, saturated fats and trans fats significantly boost the chance of suffering from a cognitive decline which may be connected with Alzheimer's disease.

A research group from Rush Univeristy Medical Centre based in Chicago over a 6 year period looked at over 3,700 Chicago people of the age of 65 and more to really look at the link between the intake of dietary fat and dietary copper and mental faculty decline. The Chicago residents were given cognitive evaluation at the start of the study and then after 3 years and 6 years.

The partipants were also asked to give detailed information about their diets and eating habits. It has been seen in previous studies that copper, zinc and iron are all very important the development of brain function and that an imbalance or lack of these individual metals can be responsible for the formation of brain plaques which are linked with Alzheimer's disease. Other studies have also connected the intake of fat especially unhealthy saturated and trans fats to the onset of  Alzheimer's disease as well as other cognitive problems, in fact the statistics showed that heavy fat intake can give you a 3 times greater chance of getting Alzheimer's disease.

Of all the participants it was seen that around 600 of them were consuming a minimum of 1.6 mg of copper daily and along with foods heavy in saturated and trans fat and these people were seen to have added an equivalent of nineteen years to their age from a mental age point of view. The lead researcher said that while the results were significant more study was required to see the connection between the various factors that play a part in mental decline and especially Alzheimer's disease.