News Stories  Junk Food Can Destroy Your Brain   About 35
million people suffer from Alzheimer's worldwide, and based on
the rate at which the population ages, the number will rise to
100 million by 2050. Many scientists now believe that it's at
least partly caused by the brain's impaired response to insulin.
In the US, the percentage of the population with insulin-
resistant type II diabetes has grown three times in 30 years. Is
Alzheimer's actually "type 3 diabetes?" Type II sufferers are
two to three times more likely to be struck by Alzheimer's than
the general population.  Insulin is the hormone that prompts the
liver, muscles and fat to absorb sugar from the blood. Type II
diabetes is caused by excessive blood glucose, due to resistance
to signals from the pancreas by the organs that would usually
absorb it.  In 2005, researchers looked at the brains of 54
corpses, 28 of which belonged to people who had died of
Alzheimer's. They found that the levels of both insulin and
insulin-like growth factors in the