Neuroscientist Shane O’Mara believes that plenty of regular walking unlocks the cognitive powers of the brain like nothing else. He explains why you should exchange your gym kit for a pair of comfy shoes and get strolling.
Category: Motivational
One Cause of Dental Cavities?
This research says it’s “free” sugar (meaning processed, not the kind embedded naturally in fruit). And good dental hygiene is a way to “mop-up” after ingestion. (Better to eliminate the cause.)
Death Rate Rising for Young, Middle Aged U.S. Adults
Opioid epidemic and stalled progress against heart disease have dragged down life expectancy
https://www.wsj.com/articles/death-rates-rising-for-young-middle-aged-u-s-adults-11563854580
Paleo Diet Linked to Heart Disease Biomarkers
Egg Replacement
Could Autism start in the gut?
For instance, some researchers found that the microbiota of autistic children lacked the beneficial strains of bacteria Bifidobacteria and Prevotella, while other studies found “a significant increase in the Firmicutes/Bacteroidetes ratio” and higher levels of the bacterial taxa Escherichia/Shigella and Clostridium cluster XVIII.
Also, autistic children tend to experience gastrointestinal issues such as constipation, diarrhea, and abdominal pain.
Walking Shoes VS Fish Oil
Over-50s who buy fish oil supplements to boost brains ‘are wasting their money’
Caroline Abrahams, Age UK’s Charity Director said: “These eminent experts have concluded it doesn’t do any good to take supplements to promote your brain health in later life so our advice to older people is to save your money and spend it on a healthy diet, full of delicious fruit and vegetables instead.”
Stand Up!
Want to lose some belly girth?
Fooling the Satiety Meter (with recipe)
… this study for the first time demonstrates how substantially more effective adjusting energy density is—compared with reducing portion size—in getting the body to think it’s eaten all it needs.
https://www.sciencenews.org/blog/food-thought/fooling-satiety-meter-recipe
How Parkinson’s starts in the gut:
Researchers discover proteins which run like an electrical cable from the stomach to the brain can trigger disease
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The study builds on a discovery of proteins clumped in parts of the nervous system controlling the gut, as well as in the brain, of Parkinson’s sufferers.
Following his breakthrough in 2003, German neuroanatomist Heiko Braak hypothesized the proteins traveled up the nerves into the brain like a ladder – where they clump up and cause nerve tissues to die – causing the symptoms of Parkinson’s.
Dr Hanseok Ko, of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, then found this was consistent with early stage Parkinson’s links with constipation.