Tehran University of Medical Sciences Iranian Journal of Public Health 2251-6085 42 12 2013 12 15 1414 21 Mohammad Mahdi Ahmadian-Attari 1. Dept. of Traditional Pharmacy, School of Traditional Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences , Tehran, Iran. Mahmoud Mosaddegh 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. Anooshiravan Kazemnejad 3. Dept. of Biostatistics, School of Medical Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University , Tehran, Iran. Ahmad Ali Noorbala 4. Psychosomatic Ward Imam Khomeini Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences , Tehran, Iran. 2015 10 15 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.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.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.ITM recommended diet which is full of unsaturated fatty acids and cholesterol can be utilized for complementary treatment of AD. https://ijph.tums.ac.ir/index.php/ijph/article/view/4277 https://ijph.tums.ac.ir/index.php/ijph/article/download/4277/3929