title: Comparison between Complementary Dietary Treatment of Alzheimer Disease in Iranian Traditional Medicine and Modern Medicine.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  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.
  
  
  METHODS
  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.
  
  
  RESULTS
  1) Traditionally recommended foods are fattier than abstinent ones (P<0.001). There are meaningful differences between unsaturated fatty acids (UFAs) (P<0.001), saturated fatty acids (P<0.001), and cholesterol (P<0.05) of recommended foods and abstinent ones. 2) Traditionally recommended diet is also fattier than the abstinent diet (4.5 times); UFAs of the recommended diet is 11 times more than that of the abstinent one; it is the same story for cholesterol (1.4 times); 3) Recent studies show that diets with high amounts of UFAs have positive effects on AD; a considerable number of papers emphasizes on probable positive role of cholesterol on AD; 4) Traditional recommended diet is in agreement with recent studies.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  ITM recommended diet which is full of unsaturated fatty acids and cholesterol can be utilized for complementary treatment of AD.
authors.affiliation: 1. Dept. of Traditional Pharmacy, School of Traditional Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences , Tehran, Iran.
authors.forename: Mohammad Mahdi
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Ahmadian-Attari
authors.affiliation: 1. Dept. of Traditional Pharmacy, School of Traditional Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences , Tehran, Iran ; 2. Traditional Medicine and Material Medical Research Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences , Tehran, Iran.
authors.forename: Mahmoud
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Mosaddegh
authors.affiliation: 3. Dept. of Biostatistics, School of Medical Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University , Tehran, Iran.
authors.forename: Anooshiravan
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kazemnejad
authors.affiliation: 4. Psychosomatic Ward Imam Khomeini Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences , Tehran, Iran.
authors.forename: Ahmad Ali
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Noorbala
keywords: Alzheimer disease; Cholesterol; Diet therapy; Fatty acids; Traditional Medicine