Eating veggies shrinks the brain
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.
Monday, September 15, 2008
My horrendous eating habits are actually paying off?
Now this is the kind of scientific study I can get behind. Well done Oxford stiffs, well done.
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i honestly think i hate the cowboys and eagles more than i like the redskins. does that make me a bad person?
'and a great group of wide receivers'
you can say that as many times as you like, donovan, but it won't make it true. ask john mccain.
'hard-hittin' ken hamlin?
shouldn't that be 'hard-hit'?
You might want to block DeMarcus Ware.
Marion the Barbarian? Hmmmm...not sure that works for me.
man, how do you let that guy get that far behind you?
mets down late to the nats. if whitney weren't hiding in that cave, he'd be pissed.
daisuke matsuzaka up 11 runs and nibbling. sigh.
OK, so who is NOT hurt on the Seahawks offense?
The Nippon Nibbler!
MLB might want to stop showing clips of the Brew Crew in their Bon Jovi playoff spots. I'm just saying...
101 pitches through 5 innings. tidy.
Elijah Dukes just crushed a Dirty Sanchez offering. 7-0 Nats.
mlb gameday just broke - the sox are scoring too much.
wow, dallas getting feces all over themselves now. such a shame.
Some people (me) like to make fun of Alex Smith and his small hands, but are we sure that Romo doesn't have carny hands too?
arkansas fans are so wistful right now.
and toothless.
Final score in this game: Dallas 58, Phi 56
eagles are hammering the dallas running game.
right on cue.
Having TO on your fantasy team is fun...except for the self-loathing aspect.
Wow...that was some nice blocking there by the Eagles line.
good gracious.
i'm right with you on the self-loathing. and the happy to have 2 touchdowna tonight.
Desean Jackson, you are the bama of the week...week...week...
Jackson didn't cross the plain there. He did the same thing in the Army All-American game as a HS senior.
oh, my. the city of brotherly love will greet desean jackson with bouquets of hugs and lead pipes if this gets called back.
the cowboys defense are nearly as stupid as jackson for not picking that ball up.
Evidently this is the self loathing corner of the web. Despite my lack of NFC East ties I absolutely hate Dallas. But...I have both of them on my main fantsy team and this kind of game is about the only way I win this week. I feel dirty.
A rule that has never come up--that if you fumble and there is a whistle you get the ball where it was fumbled but retain possession--had never really been used before this week. Now its gonna need to be changed.
massive fantasy implications!!!
Millions of Westbrook fantasy owners love Desean.
And I now hate him...
Can I get my paws on a D. Jackson wonderlic. I'm going to jump to conclusions and question his focus and smarts.
Dallas reclaims the lead by the 4 min mark, right?
proctor, you fuck.
Proctor!!!!!!!!
/bad police academy jokes
This is like a video game. Somebodys chucking it deep every
3rd play.
unbridled hate for someone i didn't know existed 30 seconds ago. god bless fantasy football.
The Eagles are not going to let you beat them on the ground. They're just not. If you want to beat them in the air that's fine though.
Romo just threw an 6 yard pass 96mph. Much like Cole Trickle, he might be holding on a little too tight.
I'd like to ask the Elias sport bureau what the record for most aggregate points in a first half is. If both teams score once more, I bet we have it.
skins/broncos had 52 at halftime of super bowl whatever. gotta be higher than that, right?
Skins Broncos was 35-10 at the half.
well, if you're gonna get all exact.
7 players in the NFL have had 25,000 pass yards and 2500 rush yards...including McNabb. Hmmm...
R. Cunningham
F. Tarkenton
Steve Young
R. Staubauch?
J. Zorn?
warren moon?
Zorn and Staubach are close but wrong.
Moon only rushed for 1700
Cunningham, Young and Tarkenton are right. Theismann?
Theismann only rushed for 1815 yards but did have 25000 passing.
There is one name on that list that I never would've guessed.
steve grogan?
Elway...gotta be right?
Elway's in for sure.
Browning Nagle.
Yep, Elways rushed for 3500...and passed for a mere 51k+.
Thats absurd.
So its Elway, McNabb, Cunninghan, Young, Tarkenton...and two more...
I guarantee you'll never guess one of them without looking it up.
Jeff Garcia could be on this list soon...seriously...
Stabler?
Air McNair.
Air McNair?
Looked up McNair--he's a yes. Still missing one.
Sorry bout that. I tried to type a comment and my window closed. McNair's #6.
steve grogan was only 320 rushing yards short. i loved that guy.
and the last guy is ungettable. i cheated, too.
Rob's right. I'll buy a night of drinks for somebody who gets this legitimately. Whenever thats possible.
Norm Van Brocklin?
Think much less prestigous.
Mark Brunell is 67 yards rushing short.
And he'll never get it...
Final guess then I'm looking it up: Sid Luckman
(Cue shocked expression on Geoff's face)
Luckman has -239 yards rushing career.
Can't find it...
Harbaugh.
Wow. That would have taken me a while... Rich Gannon is 49 rushing yards away...and Kitna is 54.
I'm old and lame and getting up at 5:45...I'm watching the rest of this in bed...until I fall asleep in the mid-4th qtr.
Might as well. This 2nd half is going to be a crappily-played serious letdown after that 1st half. Punt City.
I'd like to point out that Tirico just brought out the Jackson/All American Game anecdote. About an hour late.
Yeah, but you fondled your intern's breasts 3 days after she started work while Tirico is a classic "Day 2 Groper," so it evens out.
The people that keep Tony Kornheiser on MNF are the same people that kept Louie Anderson onstage for 15 years. "Enablers," they call these people, and there should be some kind of vigilante justice.
Valid point.
Socks filled with quarters?
Wow, Tirico undressing Jaws with an extended conversation on Donovan McNabb being "the best Eagles quarterback ever." Douche.
McNabb looks really, really good tonight. Tremendously poised and far more mobile than in recent years.
Mark Schlereth hocking crap for Sears. Sears sucks, Mark. Boy, I worked there once. Sold Lady Kenmores. Nasty, whoa, nasty.
Did Jaws just kill Tirico back?
It was hard to hear anything over Kornheiser blathering about Jerry Jones. Boy, get those two in a room . . . being interviewed by Jim Rome . . . somewhere in Galveston last week . . .
God bless Jaws for not letting Tony Windbag get away with making overblown, ultra-definitive statements that are actually not terribly accurate. Keep it up.
And yeah . . . the Mets' problems are making me a little bitter here.
Don't blame Romo for missing Barber, booth geniuses -- notice that Barber stopped running his route. C'mon, dummies.
G:TB has beaten the Wheelhouse with this week's picks by getting 3of 5 games right. The Wheelhouse got 2 of 5 right. The only game both teams picked wa the SD-DEN game. Wheelhouse had SD and lost. G:TB had DEN.
I would like to note my own fantastic pick. I said Dallas would win by 3. They won by 4.
Even a blind squirrel....
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