Maggie Beer’s mission to stop Alzheimer’s
Maggie Beer is on a mission to stop one of the biggest killers in Australia, Alzheimer’s disease.
Maggie has launched her new cookbook Maggie's Recipes for Life with the help of one of the world’s leading Alzheimer’s researchers, Professor Ralph Martins.
Each recipe in the book uses food scientifically proven to be good for the brain.
“Every green you can imagine is great for the brain, every coloured vegetable, the purples, the oranges, the reds… They just have that extra edge to them,” Maggie told Sunday Night.
“The foods that we look at are those in the Mediterranean diet, those are the foods one needs to follow,” Professor Martins said.
“Probably more important ones are the fruits and vegetables and within them are cabbage, kale, parsley, and fruit such as pomegranates and spices such as turmeric."
Although all ingredients are proven to be powerful brain food, Maggie stresses they are not a cure for Alzheimer’s.
“It’s to help protect our brains and Ralph’s science says all of that,” she said.
“These are recipes for life, this is for every age. This isn’t a health book, it’s a life book.”