The news of action star Bruce Willis being moved out of his house due to his frontotemporal dementia has cast a new light on the illness and how it affects eating habits.

The 70-year-old’s wife, Emma Hemming, only recently announced that she had decided to move him to a second family home as the current one, which he shared with her and his two prepubescent daughters, was not conducive to their upbringing and his mental state at the same time.

Emma has met the ensuing social media backlash with an awareness campaign.

One patient lived off bananas and milk and would consume nothing else

Frontotemporal dementia is characterized by the degeneration and shrinking of the front and sides of the brain, which then results in behavioral and personality changes—and like in Willis’s case, affects

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