Posted on 09/15/2008 4:26:30 PM PDT by DogByte6RER
Eating veggies shrinks the brain
14 Sep 2008
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%.
(Excerpt) Read more at timesofindia.indiatimes.com ...
i’ll give you oxes are strong but I would say that gorillas are mostly vegetarian but will eat some protein from insects and other small creatures of the jungle, chimps will kill and eat other animals, violent, so like us
HA! I know I am and most people think I am crazy. My father was a hunter and all of my family are meat eaters. When I was little I used to have to be forced to eat steak, pork chops, etc. I would gag and hated it.
I shouldn’t say that I didn’t eat red meat after my teens because I would eat it twice a week for my mother in law while pregnant and I would have to pour Heinz 57 all over the roast in order to get it down! Weird I know.
One thing I would like to try are BBQ baby back ribs from down south. I love watching the BBQ battles on Food Network and they always make them look so good. We can’t get BBQ like that in Massachusetts though
The human gut isn’t long enough for a human to be a true herbivore. Yes, we can and do eat vegetables, but we need meat as well.
Ceee I tode U.
Mom if U arr reeding this U ohhh me an appowogee 4 making mee eet dat crap.
Well, I don’t have this problem. For me, being a vegetarian is about saying YES to things, things like meat. The best vetarian’s love tasty creatures. Pork, Beef, Venison, Buffalo, Rabbit, Lamb- if you are what you eat, then all those tasty critters are the veggies they eat. :->
You do realize chocolate is from a plant? BTW, one of the best things I've ever tasted was Chocolate Pudding made from Coco powder and Avocados.
I am a vegetarian but I take a Flintstones (because they taste good) vitamin every day so I get enough B12.
“Eating vegetables shrinks the brain”...
“Vegans and vegetarians are the most likely to be deficient...”
Did you hear that Fred Grandy!!!
LOL
I think their brains were teeny weeny even BEFORE they became vegetarians...
Otay...I happen to be an avid BBQer. Here is how you can make them yourself:
Get a bullet style water smoker. (Great for beginners and cheap)
Something like this: http://www.barbecue-smoker-grill.com/smgrch.html or this: http://www.shopperschoice.com/item_name_Meco-5023I-Black-Charcoal-Water-Smoker_path_3-51-2110-2129-2167_item_4711.html
This one is the Cadillac of this style, but some people actually use them for competition cooking:
Get an electronic oven thermometer (One with the probe on a braided metal cord - wrap the cord in foil or it will get ruined. Have the probe at the level of the meat. Stick it in under the lid.)
Keep the BBQ temp at 225 ish (10 or 15 degrees higher or lower is fine) Add charcoal as needed. Keep water in the water pan. Adjust the vents to increase/decrease air flow and control the level of fire, and the temps. Top vents cool when open, bottom vents increase burn, and thus temps.
Night before pull the white membrane from the bone side with a pair of clean pliers. (Spare ribs only please - baby backs have 1/3 the flavor of spare ribs. Trust me on this. Most of that beautiful juiciness and superb mouth feel you get is from the connective tissues that break down during the low temp slow BBQ. Baby backs lack the connective tissues, and just don’t compare in flavor either.) Apply your rub. Leave in fridge overnight to allow the rub to penetrate.
(this isnt a bad rub:
* 4 tablespoons brown or turbanado sugar (since you BBQ low, the sugar never burns and is ok)
* 2 tablespoons ground paprika
* 1 tablespoon white sugar
* 1 tablespoon garlic salt
* 1 tablespoon celery salt
* 1 tablespoon chili powder
* 2 teaspoons fresh ground black pepper
* 1 teaspoon ground cayenne pepper
* 1/2 teaspoon dry mustard
* 1 teaspoon curry powder )
Making the ribs takes 6 hours. The steps are always 3 hrs 2 hrs and 1 hr. 3 over smoke, 2 in foil to get the melt in your mouth qualities and let the collagen fully liquefy, and one back over smoke to firm the meat back up a tad and allow it to shrink back from the bones.
When you make the fire, light a couple of quarts of charcoal off on the side, pack the smoker with unlit charcoal (less 2 quarts room) and then pour the lit charcoal on top of the unlit. This gives you a nice slow fire that doesn’t often need tending. Add wood for flavor. Add the wood so as to get a light white smoke coming from the smoker... no more. Make sure it is well seasoned wood or you will get a nasty creosote taste on everything. Hickory chunks are available here at walmarts, etc. and works nicely, but I prefer fruit woods for pork. I get a quarter rick of apple wood from a local orchard every year.
Dont soak the wood. Let it burn. You want good and pretty complete combustion, not incomplete.
If you make your ribs like this you wont need or want BBQ sauce. They will be to die/cry for.
Just remeber 3hr on smoke, 2hr in tightly wrapped foil, and 1hr back over smoke. (I add half an apple juice concentrate can in the foil, but it isn’t needed. Also, make sure you foil the inside of your water bowl or it will be a pain in the neck to clean.
Don’t use Mesquite... you can use it when grilling, but if you try and smoke with it it is too strong. It will bitter the meat and be nasty.
ps. Throw a whole layer of taters prepped as if you are going to bake them, and fill that bottom rack. You have no idea how good smoked potato salad is, or eating them like bakers. Nuke them a bit and make mash is another option.
I agree.
The article is NOT an example of fine journalistic writing. Maybe...because it is reported by an Indian news service, it is customary in India to write in vague terms first before later narrowing the specifics down later in the story. ??
I do look at the smokers whenever I go to Home Depot and fantasize about how it would look on my deck. I have to go this weekend and maybe they will be marked down because it is end of the season. I can't even imagine being able to figure out the thermometer!
Your recipe sounds so delicious I may have to try it. My kids would be forever in your debt because my ribs are always dry.
Thanks
It takes a bit of time but me and the better half stream all kinds of stuff out onto the deck while we do this. Its a great way to spend a Saturday afternoon out on the deck streaming podcasts. I like to start with the best of Hugh Hewitt for the week, follow it up with an escape pod, and then the next installment of whatever audio book we are currently subscribed to. It is not near as much work as it sounds like. It is relaxing. (I actually have a wireless thermometer that allows me to go work in the yard, or whatever, and has high and low limits, and meat and smoker probes. I can be anywhere in the house or yard and if my temps go wonky, it starts beeping in my pocket)
It takes a bit of time but me and the better half stream all kinds of stuff out onto the deck while we do this. Its a great way to spend a Saturday afternoon out on the deck streaming podcasts. I like to start with the best of Hugh Hewitt for the week, follow it up with an escape pod, and then the next installment of whatever audio book we are currently subscribed to. It is not near as much work as it sounds like. It is relaxing. (I actually have a wireless thermometer that allows me to go work in the yard, or whatever, and has high and low limits, and meat and smoker probes. I can be anywhere in the house or yard and if my temps go wonky, it starts beeping in my pocket)
Also, if you would like moist oven ribs, just follow the 3, 2, 1 method. (spare ribs only please... baby backs are more expensive and an inferior rib.) You can get liquid smoke at the grocery store. (It is real smoke collected from actual wood fires)
Marinade your ribs in apple juice with a half bottle of the hickory smoke stuff overnight. Dry and dry rub them... again leave overnight. Cook them in the oven at 225 for 3 hours on a broiler pan to allow them to drain. Foil up, and two more. Finish off with 1 hour out of the foil back on the broiler pan.
Here is the secret. Add a large pan with water to emulate the water smoker effect. Heat the water first, and then stick it in the oven. Then just keep it topped off every cpl hrs or so.
Easy peasy Japanesey.
Your kids owe me BIG! ;-)
It wont be as good as my smoker version... but it will blow the socks off of any non old style BBQ restaurant stuff you have tried.
So essentially you are admitting that the vegetarian diet is not complete because you admit you must take your vitamins.
THAT'S a relief!
Well, this settles one of my unanswered questions. Which comes first, vegetarianism or stupidity?
Shrinking brains, big deal. If you want to get people’s attention, post an article on which foods shrink the penis.
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