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Eating Too Much Causes Memory Loss

On: June 14, 2012

Can’t remember where you put your keys? (How about your Key!) Are you more forgetful than you used to be? It could be because you’re EATING TOO MUCH.

New research suggests that consuming between 2,100 and 6,000 calories per day may double the risk of memory loss among people age 70 and older. Neurologist Yonas E. Geda says, "We observed a dose-response pattern which simply means; the higher the amount of calories consumed each day, the higher the risk of (memory loss)." His study revealed that the odds of being forgetful in old age more than doubled for those in the highest calorie-consuming group compared to those in the lowest calorie-consuming group.
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Our Brains are Shrinking, Even Though We’re Using Them More

On: June 13, 2012

We always assume that humans are getting smarter all the time, but we may really be getting dumber. In fact, human brains are actually SHRINKING, despite the fact that our heads are actually getting LARGER. And why do so many people do two–or more–things at once, like read a book while watch TV (or–and this is dangerous–text while driving). Studies show that the brain can’t fully focus on more than one task at a time, but it turns out it makes us FEEL good.
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Do You Hear Voices in Your Head?

On: June 6, 2012

The Visitors "talk" to people in their heads and now our government is learning how to do the same thing.
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Think Better in a Foreign Language

On: May 24, 2012

Researchers have found that people are more likely to make rational decisions and take favorable risks when they think through a problem in a foreign language (of course, you need to be bilingual in order to do this, so study a foreign language in school).
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