How this Fast Diet Lifestyle works: Eat these meals tomorrow, for a calorie total of less than 600. On another day this week, eat the meals from a different post, another day of eating 600 calories or less. Eat sensibly the other days of the week. That’s it: a simple way to lose weight and be healthier.

Auguste Deter died on April 8, 1906. This German housewife had lead an uneventful life, until her 50th year. Then she became progressively disoriented, aggressive, and her memory was so bad that she forgot how to cook. As her condition worsened, her husband brought her to the Community Psychiatric Hospital at Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Her doctor there was Alois Alzheimer. He had trained as a physician and was particularly interested in the use of a microscope for anatomy studies. After graduation, Dr Alzheimer was the personal attendant to a wealthy psychiatric patient for five years. His interest piqued, he applied to the Frankfurt mental hospital for a job as a psychiatric clinician. After 15 years, he became the director, both seeing patients and doing research about brain shrinkage for patients with epilepsy, dementia, and arteriosclerosis. A few years later, Alzheimer moved to a larger clinic in Munich. He continued to pay for Auguste Deter’s care and treatment, and when his patient died, brain specimens from her autopsy were sent to him for examin-ation. The doctor found the brain to contain what are now called plaques, neurofibrillary tangles, and fat cells. Alzheimer studied other patients with similar conditions and gave a paper on the topic in 1906, describing the condition. A rival physician tried to down-play the findings, but a supportive colleague began calling those symptoms “Alzheimer’s Disease” and the name stuck. Auguste Deter was “Patient Zero” for Alzheimer’s Disease. The questions that Alzheimer asked her to probe her mental state are still used by clinicians, and the plaques and tangles still stime doctors in search of a cure. One avenue of research today is into the fat cells that Alzheimer first identified in Auguste’s brain. What can be done to reduce the risk of Alzheimer’s Disease? A healthy lifestyle, weight management, and a diet that will minimize the risk of diabetes can lower your chances of the dreaded condition. The Fast Diet Lifestyle can help you with that goal.

The MIND Diet is a way of eating which seeks to forestall and mitigate the symptoms of degenerative brain diseases, like Alzheimer’s Disease. It is very comparable with the Fast Diet. Our meals today are in line with ingredient choices of the MIND Diet, and with the caloric limitations of the Fast Diet.

Asparagus-Proscuitto Bake: 124 calories — 6 g fat — 2 g fiber — 8.5 g protein — 10 g carbs — 53.5 mg Calcium  NB: The food values shown are for the egg bake and the fruit, not for the optional beverages.  PB GF  This is such a great flavor combination as an appetizer, that it must be wonderful with eggs. Yum!

1 two-oz egg — 2 Tbsp [0.33 oz] thinly sliced, cooked asparagus — ½ Tbsp [0.2 oz] prosciutto, thinly sliced or diced — 1.5 tsp Parmesan cheese, grated — 1 oz pear  Optional: 5 oz fruit smoothie or berry-yogurt smoothie [88 calories] —— Optional: blackish coffee [53 calories] or blackish tea or mocha cafe au lait [65 calories]  

Spritz a ramekin with cooking spray and put the sliced asparagus and proscuitto into it. Set the toaster oven at 350 degrees F. Whisk together the cheese and egg, and pour into the ramekin. Add salt and pepper to taste, bearing in mind that the meat is salty. Bake 12-15 minutes. Slice the pear, prepare the beverages. Nice way to start the day.

Spinach-Fish Timbale: 264 calories — 7.4 g fat — 6.6 g fiber — 38 g protein — 19 g carbs — 342 mg Calcium  PB [GF if you use GF bread] Seen in cookbooks, this recipe lends itself well to our uses. Easy to prepare ahead of time: follow the recipe for the spinach filling, and rolling the fish, and putting into the ramekins. Refrigerate until ready to bake and serve to guests.

	Heat the toaster oven to 400 degrees.
½ cup blanched spinach	Rinse but do not dry the spinach. Put into a wide pan over medium heat with a lid. Check often and take off heat when leaves are wilted. There may be some liquid still in the pan.
nutmeg salt 1 wedge Laughing Cow cheese	When leaves are just cool enough to handle, remove by hand-fulls and squeeze liquid out, saving it in the pan. Coarsley chop leaves and put into a bowl with seasonings. Add cheese and stir as the cheese melts into the spinach.
1 Tbsp onion or shallot, minced   ½ slice 70-calorie bread, ground to crumbs HINT: use fresh bread crumbs as dried crumbs have more calories + carbs	In the pan of spinach water, cook the onion or shallot until the water is gone. Combine the onion and bread crumbs with spinach-cheese.
5 oz sole or ocean perch fillets, skinned [this is 2 small fillets]	Lay fish fillets out so that they make one long line, over-lapping by about an inch. Spoon spinach stuffing on the fish to cover it.
	Spray the inside of a 1-cup ramekin or custard cup with oil or non-stick spray. Roll up the fish as compactly as you can and put it into the ramekin. Bake in the oven 15 minutes.
3 oz green beans	Cook beans. When fish is baked, hold the ramekin in one oven-gloved hand while you invert a plate over the ramekin. Flip it all over so that ramekin is upside down. Lift off the ramekin. Plate beans.