Saturday 21 September 2013

The heart of research in Europe into Alzheimers is in Toulouse

The Professeur Bruno Vellas is head of research at Toulouse     (Centre de Mémoire de ressource et de recherche sur la maladie d’Alzheimer) 
La maladie est extrêmement fréquente. On recense actuellement environ 800000 malades en France et chaque année, il y a entre 180000 nouveaux cas diagnostiqués. C’est énorme.
Funny that I mention alzheimers in an early post having noticed it on TV but I am staggered by the figures. Amongst risk factors are sufferers with diabetes, hypertension, and excess of cholesterol but things that help are eating a diet rich with  fish, fruit and vegetables and  then  keep taking exercise.
So maybe chasing donkeys down the road will be good for me.