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From BBC News - Health : Cutting calories 'boosts memory'

Well there you go, some motivation for eating those veggies instead of pre-processed pizzas ;-)

I'm sure all the beer I drink doesn't contribute much to kanji rentention, either... :/

EnjukuBlack Wrote:I'm sure all the beer I drink doesn't contribute much to kanji rentention, either... :/

hahaha! I blame the beer too!

ファブリス Wrote:From BBC News - Health : Cutting calories 'boosts memory')

But only if you're already taking in too many calories. The article notes more than once that it could be unsafe to cut calories if you are at or under your ideal weight.

It's nice to see a study that actually indication causation, instead of just correlation, for a change, too.

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True, but they more or less have to caution people who would take advice from a single article.

At a meditation retreat I went to once, they said you should never meditate on a full stomach. Digestion takes a lot of energy away from mental focusing.

Then you have also many people experimenting with fasting for a few weeks for health or for spiritual reasons.

Note that this study is on the elderly; unless I'm missing something, additional studies would be required to extend this conclusion to the general populace.

~J

EnjukuBlack Wrote:I'm sure all the beer I drink doesn't contribute much to kanji rentention, either... :/

Getting plastered has been one of my best study tools. All of my drinking buddies are Japanese. When I first started learning Japanese it also helped remove the fear of looking like a dumbass speaking awful Japanese.

Perhaps it has something to do with the fact that high calorie foods are often low in nutrition as well. Obese people are often the most malnurished segment of the population.

mistamark Wrote:

EnjukuBlack Wrote:I'm sure all the beer I drink doesn't contribute much to kanji rentention, either... :/

hahaha! I blame the beer too!

Actually that would explain the huge memory gaps I have after partaking too many Mort Subite or Delirium Tremens bottles... too many calories!

ファブリス Wrote:True, but they more or less have to caution people who would take advice from a single article.

What I mean is that they wouldn't risk those people in their study, so they weren't studied. Therefore only people eating too much were studied. (And as someone noted, only elderly people.)

So if you are old and eat too much, you can probably cut your intake and have better memory. Beyond that, we're not sure.

Cutting calories seem to boost other things as well. This PETA ad was pulled from airing during the Super Bowl. I wonder why?
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseac...d=51208073

Why have I never seen this thread? And how do they verify the results of a study like that?

Couldn't it simply be that good health in general boosts memory?

hknamida Wrote:Couldn't it simply be that good health in general boosts memory?

No, impossible!

hknamida Wrote:Couldn't it simply be that good health in general boosts memory?

Restricted-calorie diets are a more restrictive regimen than simply what is generally considered "good health".

~J