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Title: Being a Vegan shrinks the brain.
Post by: Airwolf on September 14, 2008, 09:46:36 PM
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.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/HealthSci/Eating_veggies_shrinks_the_brain/articleshow/3480629.cms

Well we have finally found the answer to DU
Title: Re: Being a Vegan shrinks the brain.
Post by: miskie on September 14, 2008, 10:02:22 PM
I'm surprised this took this long to put in print - It is believed that the reason we came to dominate as a species is because of eating meat - all that extra protein went to brain building - its safe to assume removing it would have the opposite effect.
Title: Re: Being a Vegan shrinks the brain.
Post by: Sadie on September 14, 2008, 10:15:11 PM
I have had no meat for at least 25 years. I feel fine and aside from a blood pressure problem and I have never been sick in my life(the kind of illness that would require hospitalization). I do eat fish occasionally but other wise it is veggies for me.
Title: Re: Being a Vegan shrinks the brain.
Post by: jinxmchue on September 14, 2008, 11:13:44 PM
Eat like a vegan, crap like a cow.
Title: Re: Being a Vegan shrinks the brain.
Post by: Chris on September 14, 2008, 11:23:31 PM
Eat like a vegan, crap like a cow.

On the plus side, it doesn't stink.  :p

I tried the vegetarian thing for most of a year.  Completely odorless, which is a plus, but sometimes you might get funny colors coming out the other end.
Title: Re: Being a Vegan shrinks the brain.
Post by: jinxmchue on September 15, 2008, 06:57:08 AM
On the plus side, it doesn't stink.  :p

So explain cow crap.

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I tried the vegetarian thing for most of a year.  Completely odorless, which is a plus, but sometimes you might get funny colors coming out the other end.

Who broke your TMI filter between your brain and your fingers?
Title: Re: Being a Vegan shrinks the brain.
Post by: Chris_ on September 15, 2008, 08:52:38 AM
On the plus side, it doesn't stink.  :p

So explain cow crap.

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I tried the vegetarian thing for most of a year.  Completely odorless, which is a plus, but sometimes you might get funny colors coming out the other end.

Who broke your TMI filter between your brain and your fingers?

It happened when his brain shrank during that year.