livescience.com — It sounds like an infomercial from late-night TV: Follow this four-step plan and improve your memory in just 14 days!But researchers have indeed found a way to improve memory function in older people. After a two-week study that involved brainteasers, exercise and diet changes, study participants' memories worked more efficiently.
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ripterDec 13, 2005
Once again, 'proof' that eating healthy is good for you.
nicepantsDec 13, 2005
This is totally......oh crap I forgot what I was going to say
davidkainDec 13, 2005
"Dead yeast doesn't produce alcohol"Neither would raw yeast bathing in that roiling tub of acid we like to call the stomach. :)Still, I can't bash an article that promotes healthy eating/living when it's all too rare.
Closed AccountDec 13, 2005
Boondoggle, they don't all die in the stomatch. It only takes a few to make many. But yeast is already within us, so it doesn't matter. Especially when the food source is plentiful, yeast will reproduce much faster than the ammount that dies off. Yeast will only die in the alcohol they produce when it polutes their food source too much, or saturates itself in it's byproduct. So in high concentrations it will die off. But in us, it's very much alive, and requires another bacteria to naturally counter act in. A bateria very many of us now lack, because it doesn't replicate as much or as fast as yeast does. Before, it didn't have to, it was a feast for the acidophilus at how fast the yeast would grow, and it didn't have to replicate as fast because the balance of flora was there. Come modern times, with anti-biotics, the medication, and in our foods, and the manufactured foods, the refined sugar, etc. it has caused a major imbalance and not only increased the yeasts food source 40 fold on average per person, but also many of us lack enough acidophilous to counter it, or even worse have very little left for those of us who were on anti-biotics when we were kids. Live yeast does hurt you. It is impairing many of us greatly. Live yeast in moderate ammounts doesn't hurt us, but with the ammount tha tmost of us have in us now, it does. By the way, beer is cooked. Beer is brought to a high enough temperature to kill off the yeast if it didn't die off in it's own alcohol already so that it controls the alcohol content, and the desired flavor of the beer.
Closed AccountDec 13, 2005
BTW, I am an authority on all this just so you all know because I am a Nutritionist with a Masters degree in Culary arts and a Bachelors Degree in Dietetics, working on my masters thesis this year. On, you guessed it, yeast overgrowth. :D
giocavDec 13, 2005
Zethris, you would do well to distinguish between the different types of yeast. This thread is using the single term "yeast" to describe at least two different genera (the plural of genus).Genus Candida, as in Candida albicans, can be pathogenic and it exists natively in most human bodies: <a class="user" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candida_albicans.">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candida_albicans.</a> The yeasts that are used in beer, wine and bread are typically (if not always) genus Saccharomyces: <a class="user" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saccharomyces,">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saccharomyces,</a> and are not generally considered pathogenic.These organisms have very different characteristics, but are easily confused because of the use of the very broad term "yeast".
genericityDec 13, 2005
I am surprised that so many people dugg this as it seems like no-brainer recommendations. Then again, it is the basics that usually make the most difference.
buddybot111Dec 14, 2005
This article just says, be healthy and good things will happen. Well DUH!
serraDec 14, 2005
So you're saying that in 14 days.... wait, do what now?... do what now?.... do what now?(ATHF anyone?)--------------------------------<a class="user" href="http://fuh-q.com">http://fuh-q.com</a>