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YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT

Eating better is the key to a healthy brain, emphasizes a newly revised edition of the 2013 best seller Grain Brain: The Surprising Truth about Wheat, Carbs, and Sugar—Your Brain’s Silent Killers by Naples neurologist David Perlmutter.

“Management of blood sugar turns out to be the absolute cornerstone mechanism for heart disease, Alzheimer’s, cancer, and certainly for diabetes,” he says. “If you couple daily aerobic exercise with a low simple carbohydrate diet, you can at least cut your risk of Alzheimer’s in half.”

The renowned physician and author, who has made countless national media appearances from

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