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Apples are almost a magical fruit?eating an apple a day is good for diabetics and for the rest of us as well, but one kind of patient nobody thought it would help was people with Alzheimer’s disease. But it turns out that there’s a definite link between fruit and vegetable consumption and memory loss in the elderly. If you want to stay sharp, eat your vegetables!

Nutritionist Heidi Wengreen says, “We found that the group with the highest intake of fruits and vegetables scored better on the memory test than the group with the lowest intake. It appears that higher intake of fruits and vegetables may protect against memory loss in older adults.”
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The newest kind of plastic surgery is the face transplant. This is not done for the reason ordinary plastic surgery is usually done, because someone isn’t happy with the way they look. People who get face transplants have been extremely disfigured, usually from car accidents or fires. For them, this is a life saver, even if it means they end up looking like someone else.

Plastic surgeon Raj Persaud is studying how having a new face is affecting these people psychologically. Psychologists are concerned that literally wearing another person’s face may cause identity problems in an individual, even if, as is almost always the case, the recipient of the face did not know the donor.
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The U.S. is facing increasing pressure to become a member of the international climate control agreement, known as the Kyoto Protocol, established in 1997, in which all nations agree to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Since we release 25% of the CO2 that gets into the atmosphere, there is intensepressure for us to sign this, but our government insists it will be bad for business. Other critics fear that it will be ineffective, since some countries, such as Italy, have been let off too easy by agreeing to plant more trees. Also China, which is probably the world?s major polluter, has not yet come to the table.
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Newswise – We’ve written before about how Alaska is the canary in the coal mine, when it comes to global warming. Another way that state is different: in Alaska, you are as likely to have a car accident from hitting (or swerving to avoid) moose as you are due to drinking alcohol.

40% of Alaska?s population lives outside of large cities, and many workers have long commutes through rugged and remote terrain. Although only 1% of the population is involved in farming or ranching, the state does have a large number of large animals. Moose and bears are its most common large wild animals that live in or near residential and commercial areas.
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