Comparison between Complementary Dietary Treatment of Alzheimer Disease in Iranian Traditional Medicine and Modern Medicine.

• Main Authors: Mohammad Mahdi Ahmadian-Attari, Mahmoud Mosaddegh, Anooshiravan Kazemnejad, Ahmad Ali Noorbala
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Tehran University of Medical Sciences 2013-12-01
• Series: Iranian Journal of Public Health
• Subjects: Alzheimer disease; Cholesterol; Diet therapy; Fatty acids; Traditional Medicine
• Online Access: https://ijph.tums.ac.ir/index.php/ijph/article/view/4277

Dietary notifications have been introduced recently for Alzheimer Disease (AD). In Iranian old medical manuscripts, there are some nutritional recommendations related to Nesyan (AD equivalent). The aim of this article was to compare dietary recommendations of Iranian traditional medicine (ITM) with novel medical outcomes.1) Searching for dietary recommendations and abstinences described in ITM credible manuscripts; 2) Extracting fatty components of ITM diet according to the database of the Department of Agriculture of the USA; 3) Statistical analysis of fatty elements of traditionally recommended foods via Mann-Whitney Test in comparison with elements of the abstinent ones; 4) Searching for AD dietary recommendations and abstinences which currently published in medical journals; 5) Comparing traditional and new dietary suggestions with each other.1) Traditionally recommended foods are fattier than abstinent ones (P