[kj] OT: Drinking leads to brain shrinkage

[The Exorcist]

Brain Shrinkage or Heart disease/cancer? Ahhh... the choices in life!
*grin*


http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9117656

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"A team of researchers at Rice University in Houston is working to 
create a beer that could fight cancer and heart disease. Taylor 
Stevenson, a member of the six-student research team and a junior at 
Rice, said the team is using genetic engineering to create a beer 
that includes resveratrol, the disease-fighting chemical that's been 
found in red wine."
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At 04:35 PM 10/16/2008, Paul Richards wrote:

>I was wondering what was rattling  around my skull

>

>paul

>

>B. Oliver Sheppard wrote:

>>Very depressing news if true!  - Oliver

>>

>>

>>http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2008/10/14/alcohol-brain.html

>>

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>>Drinking leads to shrinking, brain study suggests

>>Last Updated: Tuesday, October 14, 2008 | 2:59 PM ET

>>CBC News

>>

>>Alcohol may have a protective effect on the heart, but not the 

>>brain, a study suggests.

>>Consuming even small amounts of alcohol seems to shrink the brain, 

>>researchers have found.

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