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Eating veggies shrinks the brain
The Times of India ^ | 14 Sep 2008, 0103 hrs IST | AGENCIES

Posted on 09/14/2008 8:33:27 PM PDT by null and void

MELBOURNE: Scientists have discovered that going veggie could be bad for your brain-with those on a meat-free diet six times more likely to suffer brain shrinkage.

Vegans and vegetarians are the most likely to be deficient because the best sources of the vitamin are meat, particularly liver, milk and fish. Vitamin B12 deficiency can also cause anaemia and inflammation of the nervous system. Yeast extracts are one of the few vegetarian foods which provide good levels of the vitamin.

The link was discovered by Oxford University scientists who used memory tests, physical checks and brain scans to examine 107 people between the ages of 61 and 87.

When the volunteers were retested five years later the medics found those with the lowest levels of vitamin B12 were also the most likely to have brain shrinkage. It confirms earlier research showing a link between brain atrophy and low levels of B12.

Brain scans of more than 1,800 people found that people who downed 14 drinks or more a week had 1.6% more brain shrinkage than teetotallers. Women in their seventies were the most at risk.

Beer does less damage than wine according to a study in Alcohol and Alcoholism.

Researchers found that the hippocampus-the part of the brain that stores memories - was 10% smaller in beer drinkers than those who stuck to wine.

And being overweight or obese is linked to brain loss, Swedish researchers discovered. Scans of around 300 women found that those with brain shrink had an average body mass index of 27 And for every one point increase in their BMI the loss rose by 13 to 16%.


TOPICS: Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: badhunter; brain; foodsupply; health; mentalhealth; shrinkage; vegetarian; veggies
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This may explain why so many vegans are liberals...
1 posted on 09/14/2008 8:33:27 PM PDT by null and void
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This thread is going to be priceless!


2 posted on 09/14/2008 8:35:43 PM PDT by tanuki (Summum ius summa iniura. (The more law, the less justice))
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You...you SCOUNDREL!

I was going to post this exact article, and much the same comment, when the FR servers went all flaky.

Well done, I say to you again, sir!

Cheers!

3 posted on 09/14/2008 8:36:22 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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yup. gotta agree with these findings
4 posted on 09/14/2008 8:36:41 PM PDT by ari-freedom (We never hide from history. We make history!)
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You beat me to it, that’s what I was going to say.


5 posted on 09/14/2008 8:37:34 PM PDT by chaos_5 (See my profile for cool McCain/Palin "lipstick" stickers!)
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To: neverdem
Like, *PING*, dude.

Cheers!

6 posted on 09/14/2008 8:38:00 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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I figured that going vegan would make you stupid.

Just too many vegan liberals....

7 posted on 09/14/2008 8:39:00 PM PDT by dirtbiker (My Walmart still has 7 copies of "An Inconvenient Truth" on the shelf)
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I'm 42 and have normal blood pressure and cholesterol and no heart problems, even though everyone else in my family is on high blood pressure meds, and I've never eaten green vegetables. I mentioned this to a doctor I knew, and she wasn't phased at all, and said that she had even seen cases where people like me actually got sick when they tried changing their diets.

I have no idea what any of this means, but I don't like veggies and I ain't eatin' em!

8 posted on 09/14/2008 8:39:02 PM PDT by Darkwolf377 (Sarah Palin--the man Biden and Obama wish they could be.)
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I figured that going vegan would make you stupid.

Just too many vegan liberals....

9 posted on 09/14/2008 8:39:06 PM PDT by dirtbiker (My Walmart still has 7 copies of "An Inconvenient Truth" on the shelf)
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I guess it’s true that we are what we eat.


10 posted on 09/14/2008 8:39:40 PM PDT by P8riot (I carry a gun because I can't carry a cop.)
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I only have one thing to say.

Arugula.

11 posted on 09/14/2008 8:39:41 PM PDT by TheWasteLand
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Ironically, it is because we eat meat that we are intelligent.

According to evolutionists, if you believe them, we’d still be swinging from the trees or hobbling along on two feet if we hadn’t made the switch from all plants to both plants and meat.

A larger brain requires a very high calorie source of food that plants can’t provide. Our brains consume a great deal of energy.


12 posted on 09/14/2008 8:43:33 PM PDT by dhs12345
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To: Darkwolf377

Mr. President, try the broccoli...


13 posted on 09/14/2008 8:44:30 PM PDT by null and void (When you bang your forehead on the ground five times a day, you get brain damage.)
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It's called "the food chain".

Humans are on the top of it.

Deal with it!

Mankind didn't climb all the way to the top of it just to eat vegetables!

Vegan must be an old Indian word for "bad hunter"....

14 posted on 09/14/2008 8:44:33 PM PDT by dirtbiker (My Walmart still has 7 copies of "An Inconvenient Truth" on the shelf)
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thanks, bfl


15 posted on 09/14/2008 8:44:53 PM PDT by neverdem (I'm praying for a Divine Intervention.)
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people that watch tv all day

fry their brains!


16 posted on 09/14/2008 8:44:59 PM PDT by ken21 (people die and you never hear from them again.)
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I was going to post this exact article, and much the same comment, when the FR servers went all flaky.

So was I....

17 posted on 09/14/2008 8:45:25 PM PDT by null and void (When you bang your forehead on the ground five times a day, you get brain damage.)
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18 posted on 09/14/2008 8:46:34 PM PDT by Roscoe Karns
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WTF? Beer does less damage than wine according to a study in Alcohol and Alcoholism.

Researchers found that the hippocampus-the part of the brain that stores memories - was 10% smaller in beer drinkers than those who stuck to wine.

Lazy writer.

19 posted on 09/14/2008 8:47:48 PM PDT by Dust in the Wind (Praying for Reign)
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Beer does less damage than wine according to a study in Alcohol and Alcoholism.

Researchers found that the hippocampus-the part of the brain that stores memories - was 10% smaller in beer drinkers than those who stuck to wine.

Ok, so is it beer or wine that makes my brain smaller. And is there an alcoholic beverage that makes other organs larger...?

20 posted on 09/14/2008 8:48:03 PM PDT by freebilly
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