found this whiule surfing.

[Guest guest]

Please post relaible links when you send in something like this. 

There is so much false information out there about being a vegetarian.

My Mother has been a vegan her whole life and she's 85.  The decline in her

health came after a broken hip.  Now do you believe everything you find while

surfing the net?  Nah, don't!

Donna

 

 

 

Say a prayer for the common foot soldier

Spare a thought for his back breaking work

Say a prayer for his wife and his children

Who burn the fires and who still till the earth

SOURCE:  Stones - Salt of the Earth

 

--- On Mon, 9/15/08, Cliff Taylor <filbert23 wrote:

 

Cliff Taylor <filbert23

Found this while surfing...

 

Monday, September 15, 2008, 7:47 AM

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sorry I couldn't get rid of the ad!

 

Eating veggies shrinks the brain14 Sep 2008, 0103 hrs IST,AGENCIES

 

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, par-

ticularly 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%.

 

Cliff

 

" This is like deja vu all over again. " - Yogi Berra