The most likely explanation is that there is something about these individuals or about this disease that affects body mass index (BMI) before the clinical syndrome becomes apparent -- that loss of BMI reflects the disease process itself.

It has long been known that people with Alzheimer's disease lose body mass and become cachectic.

The major way we've reduced the death rate from heart disease is through lifestyle changes: eating better, exercising more, smoking less. It would require a lot of people to change the way they live, but there's no reason to think we can't have the same impact on Alzheimer's and other forms of dementia.

These findings suggest that subtle, unexplained body mass and weight loss in an older person may be an early sign of AD [Alzheimer's disease] and can precede the development of obvious memory problems,

Antioxidants are really like little bodyguards inside your body that protect your cells from disease.

Once a disease has entered the body, all parts which are healthy must fight it: not one alone, but all. Because a disease might mean their common death. Nature knows this; and Nature attacks the disease with whatever help she can muster.