Delicious Foods Linked to Alzheimer's Disease

The actual paper says:

"Food items such as meat pie, hamburger, ham, sausages, beef, capsicum, and cabbage were identified as important variables associated with AD in RF and SLR analyses"

AD = Altzheimer's Disease, RF = Random Forest classifier, SLR = Sparse Logistic Regression

https://content.iospress.com/articles/journal-of-alzheimers-...

And while one could argue that hamburger is unhealthy processed food, I find it odd to see "capiscum" and "cabbage" on the list of bad foods.

Nitrates in meat have long been known as a problem for other reasons too, haven't they? Particularly with regards to various digestion related cancers - this gives another reason to cut back.

The linked artical is a bit ambiguous though; initially it says:

> diet with lots of meat and processed foods

and then later

> patients with Alzheimer's tended to eat a diet rich in "processed food and meat items"

is "processed" in the second one referring to just "food" or both food and meat?

It's a long way from pizza to prions. There is just a correlation, not cause and effect. For all I know, the craving for processed foods might be a symptom and not a cause. Saying that because I know zero about Alzheimers and the one thing I know is that finding a cause is the way to a cure.

Also, that simple is beautiful, but sometimes difficult to do (cooking for one)

Title feels misleading since the study specifically calls out "processed" foods and meats.

> MFA revealed trends in the data and a strong correlation (Lg = 0.92, RV = 0.65) between the daily consumption of processed food and meat items in AD patients.