Eating veggies shrinks the brain

The Times of India ^ | 14 Sep 2008, 0103 hrs IST | AGENCIES

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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%.

[SunkenCiv]

Heh...

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[oprahstheantichrist]

"I figured that going vegan would make you stupid."

Vegans also age VERY quickly. They always look 10+ years older than they really are.

[snarks_when_bored]

I've got back issues of the American Mathematical Monthly lying around here and often I read bits and pieces of articles just for fun. There's one article that always draws my attention and my amazement: it's devoted to various "elementary" results of Ramanujan, many of them taken from his notebooks and never published. It's almost impossible to understand how anybody could have even guessed that some of those results were true. Truly bewildering. Of course, Ramanujan himself proved almost nothing...he just wrote the results down and went on, transcribing what "the Goddess" revealed to him during his dreams, as he once said. Several very competent mathematicians have spent large parts of their careers trying to prove Ramanujan's results. As it turns out, a small number of them weren't true or weren't quite true, but most of them were solid. He just somehow saw that they were true, but didn't prove them.

To adapt a famous quote, Ramanujan was a "plank from the wreck of Paradise cast up on the shores of idolatrous India."

[Danae]

The human body really is miraculous, listening to it really does work LOL. I bet you don’t drink Diet soda?

[Danae]

HAHAHA This explains so much lol.

[Danae]

Human physiology does have a lot of variety to it, some people are going to do just fine on that diet. Others aren't. There is no way you can argue with that at all. East Europeans have a different diet, it works for them. And its pretty different than Jamaican, and that diet works for Jamaicans.

[Danae]

Hehe! That means something coming from you! LOL :) And “well damn straight she is!” Cause I am the QUEEN in my house lol

[Bon mots]

Not only that, but Vegetarians Are Evil!

[Darkwolf377]

Salad? BLECH! Nope.

[Darkwolf377]

You are correct! Although I do drink the caffeine-free kind. I have a feeling if I drank diet my body would slip into a coma in protest.

[packrat35]

I don't eat vegetables. Meat, cheese and Pepsi (the 3 food groups). Been telling people for years that veggies are EVIL!

[packrat35]

Same thing for me. I am overweight and high blood pressure runs in the family. Mine is perfect. I don’t like veggies.

[grjr21]

Mary Moon, she's a vegetarian

Mary Moon will outlive all the septaugenarians

[Darkwolf377]

We probably make up a new victim voting bloc.

"Senator McCain--where are your programs for the vegetable-averse?"

Voiceover: John McCain--out of touch with those who don't slaughter innocent vegetables.

[metmom]

ping

[Chasaway]

Placemarker

[Vision]

Nice picture.

[Dust in the Wind]

I swiped it from divine_moment_of_facts profile page 8^)

[Iron Munro]

Eating Veggies Shrinks The Brain

And Now... The Rest Of The Story!

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We veggie FReepers need to form our own Ping list ! :)

Put us on it so we can come by and point and laugh...