Alzheimer's Disease Linked to Fast Food?

Photo from source, Reuters

And here, I thought that William Shatner's "Mad Cow" disease on Boston Legal was just a joke. . .

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Research on mice links fast food to Alzheimer's

Mice fed junk food for nine months showed signs of developing the abnormal brain tangles strongly associated with Alzheimer's disease, a Swedish researcher said on Friday.

The findings, which come from a series of published papers by a researcher at Sweden's Karolinska Institutet, show how a diet rich in fat, sugar and cholesterol could increase the risk of the most common type of dementia. . .

Read more at: Reuters

Science is Cool: Coffee Protects the Brain!!!

Photo from source, BBC News

This is really good news for me. I'm a massive coffee drinker. Five or six cups a day, easy. And that's straight-up black, usually plain old coffee. The sizes of cups at Starbucks still confuses me, so I'm more likely to just brew my own. It's much cheaper too.

But people have told me many times that I need to cut back. Now, I can blow them a raspberry, and say it's for my brain!

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Daily caffeine 'protects brain'

Coffee may cut the risk of dementia by blocking the damage cholesterol can inflict on the body, research suggests.

The drink has already been linked to a lower risk of Alzheimer's Disease, and a study by a US team for the Journal of Neuroinflammation may explain why. . .

Read more at: BBC News

Is President Bush Drunk?

I've already reported on President Bush's gaffes in Australia. But I hadn't seen the actual video proof. I'm no expert, but my GOD, is this man inebriated, senile or what? I know I am biased. Every utterance from our Commander in Chief seriously embarrasses me, but I really think something is wrong with him.