Source https://www.foodpolitics.com/2019/11/industry-funded-study-of-the-week-pomegranates/
The study: Matthews LG, Smyser CD, Cherkerzian S, Alexopoulos D, Kenley J, Tuuli MG, et al. (2019) Maternal pomegranate juice intake and brain structure and function in infants with intrauterine growth restriction: A randomized controlled pilot study. PLoS ONE 14(8): e0219596.
The findings (my emphasis): “There were no group differences in brain injury, metrics or volumes. However, treatment subjects displayed reduced diffusivity within the anterior and posterior limbs of the internal capsule compared with placebo. Resting state functional connectivity demonstrated increased correlation and covariance within several networks in treatment subjects, with alterations most apparent in the visual network in per-protocol analyses. <span style="…
Source https://www.foodpolitics.com/2019/11/industry-funded-study-of-the-week-pomegranates/
The study: Matthews LG, Smyser CD, Cherkerzian S, Alexopoulos D, Kenley J, Tuuli MG, et al. (2019) Maternal pomegranate juice intake and brain structure and function in infants with intrauterine growth restriction: A randomized controlled pilot study. PLoS ONE 14(8): e0219596.
The findings (my emphasis): “There were no group differences in brain injury, metrics or volumes. However, treatment subjects displayed reduced diffusivity within the anterior and posterior limbs of the internal capsule compared with placebo. Resting state functional connectivity demonstrated increased correlation and covariance within several networks in treatment subjects, with alterations most apparent in the visual network in per-protocol analyses. <span style="…
Source: https://sharpbrains.com/blog/2019/11/20/study-hearing-aids-may-help-older-adults-delay-dementia-depression-anxiety-and-falls/
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Hearing Aids Linked to Lower Risk of Dementia, Depression and Falls, Study Finds (Michigan Health Lab):
“Older adults who get a hearing aid for a newly diagnosed hearing loss have a lower risk of being diagnosed with dementia, depression or anxiety in the following three years, and a lower risk of suffering fall-related injuries, than those who leave their hearing loss uncorrected, a new study finds.
Elham Mahmoudi, M.B.A, Ph.D., the U‑M Department of Family Medicine health economist who led the study, says it confirms what other research has shown among pat…
Source: https://sharpbrains.com/blog/2019/11/20/study-hearing-aids-may-help-older-adults-delay-dementia-depression-anxiety-and-falls/
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Hearing Aids Linked to Lower Risk of Dementia, Depression and Falls, Study Finds (Michigan Health Lab):
“Older adults who get a hearing aid for a newly diagnosed hearing loss have a lower risk of being diagnosed with dementia, depression or anxiety in the following three years, and a lower risk of suffering fall-related injuries, than those who leave their hearing loss uncorrected, a new study finds.
Elham Mahmoudi, M.B.A, Ph.D., the U‑M Department of Family Medicine health economist who led the study, says it confirms what other research has shown among pat…
Source https://www.foodpolitics.com/2019/11/should-dogs-eat-pea-and-lentil-proteins/
Plant proteins for dogs? I’ve written about this before, but now there’s more.
Contrary to prevailing rumor, dogs are well documented to be able to digest grains. Whether grains are optimal for dogs is another matter and I sure wish we had some decent research on the question.
What we do have is pet-food makers scrambling to sell pet foods to owners convinced that grains are bad for their dogs. These products are often made with proteins extracted from peas and lentils.
The FDA has gotten reports that dogs fed such pet foods have developed a form of heart disease called Canine Dilated Cardiomyopathy (DCM).
The FDA is investigating<…
Source https://www.foodpolitics.com/2019/11/should-dogs-eat-pea-and-lentil-proteins/
Plant proteins for dogs? I’ve written about this before, but now there’s more.
Contrary to prevailing rumor, dogs are well documented to be able to digest grains. Whether grains are optimal for dogs is another matter and I sure wish we had some decent research on the question.
What we do have is pet-food makers scrambling to sell pet foods to owners convinced that grains are bad for their dogs. These products are often made with proteins extracted from peas and lentils.
The FDA has gotten reports that dogs fed such pet foods have developed a form of heart disease called Canine Dilated Cardiomyopathy (DCM).
The FDA is investigating<…
Source https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2019/11/greater-physical-fitness-correlates-with-lower-risk-of-dementia/
It is well established that exercise and physical fitness correlate well with reduced incidence of all of the common age-related diseases, and reduced mortality risk. It is hard to establish causation from the contents of human epidemiological databases, but the analogous animal studies convincingly demonstrate that exercise improves health. There is no reason to expect humans to be all that different in this matter. Here, researchers show that, much as expected, greater fitness correlates with reduced risk of dementia. Of note, patients that improved their fitness over the years of later life exhibited reduced di…
Source https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2019/11/greater-physical-fitness-correlates-with-lower-risk-of-dementia/
It is well established that exercise and physical fitness correlate well with reduced incidence of all of the common age-related diseases, and reduced mortality risk. It is hard to establish causation from the contents of human epidemiological databases, but the analogous animal studies convincingly demonstrate that exercise improves health. There is no reason to expect humans to be all that different in this matter. Here, researchers show that, much as expected, greater fitness correlates with reduced risk of dementia. Of note, patients that improved their fitness over the years of later life exhibited reduced di…
Source https://www.foodpolitics.com/2019/11/food-crime-new-term-old-problem/
Food crime is a new term in my lexicon. I’m used to hearing it called food fraud or intentional adulteration.
As I learned from reading an article in Food Safety News, the Food Standards Agency in Great Britain established a National Food Crime Unit in the wake of the 2013 horsemeat scandal.
Examples of food crime include the use of stolen food in the supply chain, unlawful slaughter, diversion of unsafe food, adulteration, substitution or misrepresentation of food, and document fraud…Members of the public and those working in the food and drink sector can speak up about food crime through <a href="https://www.food.gov.uk/contact/businesses/report…
Source https://www.foodpolitics.com/2019/11/food-crime-new-term-old-problem/
Food crime is a new term in my lexicon. I’m used to hearing it called food fraud or intentional adulteration.
As I learned from reading an article in Food Safety News, the Food Standards Agency in Great Britain established a National Food Crime Unit in the wake of the 2013 horsemeat scandal.
Examples of food crime include the use of stolen food in the supply chain, unlawful slaughter, diversion of unsafe food, adulteration, substitution or misrepresentation of food, and document fraud…Members of the public and those working in the food and drink sector can speak up about food crime through <a href="https://www.food.gov.uk/contact/businesses/report…
Source http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/tinybuddha/~3/mAog5RWQs7Q/
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We all know that we should be grateful. It’s right up there on the list of things we’re supposed to do regularly like get enough sleep and exercise regularly. But we don’t always prioritize the things that are good for us, which means we don’t often get to enjoy the benefits.
For many, gratitude doesn’t become a habit until life gives a reason to deeply reflect and recognize all the things we treasure and couldn’t imagine living without. Consequently, most of us don’t acknowledge and appreciate the little things until they suddenly don’t se…
Source http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/tinybuddha/~3/mAog5RWQs7Q/
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We all know that we should be grateful. It’s right up there on the list of things we’re supposed to do regularly like get enough sleep and exercise regularly. But we don’t always prioritize the things that are good for us, which means we don’t often get to enjoy the benefits.
For many, gratitude doesn’t become a habit until life gives a reason to deeply reflect and recognize all the things we treasure and couldn’t imagine living without. Consequently, most of us don’t acknowledge and appreciate the little things until they suddenly don’t se…
Source: https://sharpbrains.com/blog/2019/11/19/help-select-the-campaign-sticker-for-brain-awareness-week-2020/
Thank you to all the Brain Awareness Week enthusiasts who entered our 2020 Brain Awareness Week Sticker Design Contest! The Dana Foundation received many wonderful and creative design submissions, and we’re pleased to announce that we’ve narrowed it down to our five finalists. Now it’s YOUR turn to choose the winning design!
To vote for your favorite design, please visit on.dana.org/sticker-vote by December 4th. The top three winning designs will be announced on December 9. These three finalists will receive cash prizes, and the first-place design will win the honor of rep…
Source: https://sharpbrains.com/blog/2019/11/19/help-select-the-campaign-sticker-for-brain-awareness-week-2020/
Thank you to all the Brain Awareness Week enthusiasts who entered our 2020 Brain Awareness Week Sticker Design Contest! The Dana Foundation received many wonderful and creative design submissions, and we’re pleased to announce that we’ve narrowed it down to our five finalists. Now it’s YOUR turn to choose the winning design!
To vote for your favorite design, please visit on.dana.org/sticker-vote by December 4th. The top three winning designs will be announced on December 9. These three finalists will receive cash prizes, and the first-place design will win the honor of rep…
Source: http://www.brainhealtheducation.org/social-communication-in-pediatric-traumatic-brain-injury/
Researchers conducted a pilot study to determine ways to assess social communication difficulties in children with impaired social functioning caused by moderate-to-severe traumatic brain injury (TBI). The article, “The relationship between social communication and social functioning in pediatric TBI: A pilot study” was epublished on August 14, 2019 by Frontiers in Neurology. Social functioning comprises
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Source: http://www.brainhealtheducation.org/social-communication-in-pediatric-traumatic-brain-injury/
Researchers conducted a pilot study to determine ways to assess social communication difficulties in children with impaired social functioning caused by moderate-to-severe traumatic brain injury (TBI). The article, “The relationship between social communication and social functioning in pediatric TBI: A pilot study” was epublished on August 14, 2019 by Frontiers in Neurology. Social functioning comprises
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Source https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2019/11/against-senolytics/
There is no consensus in science that is so strong as to have no heretics. So here we have an interview with a naysayer on the matter of senolytic treatments, who argues that the loss of senescent cells in aged tissues will cause more harm to long-term health than the damage they will do by remaining. To be clear, I think this to be a ridiculous argument given the present evidence. To make it one has to declare the existing results showing <a href="https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2018/07/oisin-biotechnologies-produces-impressive-mouse-life-span-data-from-an-ongoing-study-of-sen…
Source https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2019/11/against-senolytics/
There is no consensus in science that is so strong as to have no heretics. So here we have an interview with a naysayer on the matter of senolytic treatments, who argues that the loss of senescent cells in aged tissues will cause more harm to long-term health than the damage they will do by remaining. To be clear, I think this to be a ridiculous argument given the present evidence. To make it one has to declare the existing results showing <a href="https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2018/07/oisin-biotechnologies-produces-impressive-mouse-life-span-data-from-an-ongoing-study-of-sen…
