Vegetarians = pwned! Scientists find eating only veggies shrinks your brain.

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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%.

 

[_Yossarian_]

are the 2nd and 3rd to last paragraphs not contradictory statements or has my brain just Shrunk too much from beer and wine consumption?

 

[MaGilicuti]

my brain shrunk after reading this thread

 

[Lestat]

are the 2nd and 3rd to last paragraphs not contradictory statements or has my brain just Shrunk too much from beer and wine consumption?

yeah, sorta calls the whole article into question

 

[lartinos]

Yeah, they dun fucked it up.

 

[Creepusmaximus]

are the 2nd and 3rd to last paragraphs not contradictory statements or has my brain just Shrunk too much from beer and wine consumption?

It's because beer drinkers end up screwing worse looking chicks than wine drinkers so the naturally the beer drinkers brain tries to get rid of the memories. Doesn't say beer damages the brain just rids it of more memories.

 

[UA_Iron]

It was when what we now know as India collided into asia at such a pace that the himalayas were formed. Dry wind would fly up into the atmosphere from the himalayas and landed in Africa. Africa was a lush jungle, but these climate changes caused less rainfall and a more sparse density of plants. These conditions caused the motivation for human evolution. This primitive man was able to walk on two feet - much more energy efficient then knuckle dragging. He was also able to utilize high energy food sources such as animal meats and fats and marrow. These allowed for the development of a larger brain - the most energy consuming organ in the human body.

Plants are what food eats.

 

[WODIN]

I'm a meatatarian. It's a personal choice, but I'm committed to it.

 

[mrplunkey]

What? You mean a relatively small group of enlightened, high-minded, progressive individuals who thought they could undo a few 10,000 years of evolution in 5 years?

Go figure.

 

[EnderJE]

I thought that vegetarianism was healthier for you. That said, I think that it still is given that the other side usually fries their food and not cook it 'leanly' or 'properly'.


Okay, it's me. I fry my steaks or take them blue.