Antioxidants May Delay Alzheimer's Disease Onset
(New York, Reuters Health, 6/25/02)

Two new studies indicate that Vitamins C and E may delay the onset of Alzheimer's disease by preventing free radicals from causing oxidative damage. The first study was led by Dr. Marianne J. Englehart of the Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam in the Netherlands. When her team analyzed the diets of 5,395 adults in a 6-year study, the researchers found that people consuming the most Vitamin C and E, were least likely to develop Alzheimer's. In the second study, Dr. Martha Clare Morris of Rush Institute for Healthy Aging in Chicago, Illinois, and team also concluded that people who consumed foods high in Vitamin E were less likely to develop the condition.