HEALTH
Food as Medicine: Diet’s Role in Parkinson’s Disease
Interest is growing in the role of nutrition as means of slowing, or even preventing, neurodegeneration in patients with Parkinson’s disease (PD). For 15 years, John Duda, MD, national director of the VA Parkinson’s Disease Research, Education and Clinical Centers, has urged his patients to “keep waiting” for effective treatments to manage both motor and …