Being a Veggie = Smaller Brain

PostBeing a Veggie = Smaller Brain by **Cyburn2** » Tue Sep 16, 2008 8:56 pm

http://www.newsmax.com/health/vegetarian_shrinks_brain/2008/09/16/131223.html

Becoming a vegetarian could be good for the planet, but it’s bad for your brain. Scientists at Oxford University in England have found that vegetarians are six times more likely to have brain shrinkage than those who include meats in their diets.

The cause could be a lack of vitamins. Vegetarians are more likely than meat-eaters to be deficient in vitamin B12, which is mainly found in meats, and a B12 deficiency is known to cause anemia and inflammation of the nervous system.

Oxford researchers examined 107 people between the age of 61 and 87 using physical exams, memory tests and brain scans. When the same volunteers were retested five years later, those with the lowest amounts of B12 had the most brain atrophy.

Swedish researchers found that being overweight is also linked to brain loss. Women with a BMI (body mass index) that averaged 27 showed brain shrinkage. (A BMI of 25 or over is “overweight” and a BMI of 30 or higher is “obese.”) For every additional point in BMI, brain loss increased by 13 to 16 percent

So if you're a fat vegetarian (do they exist?) then you're really screwed.

PostRe: Being a Veggie = Smaller Brain by **OLIN** » Tue Sep 16, 2008 9:12 pm

satriales wrote:So if you're a fat vegetarian (do they exist?) then you're really screwed.

Yeah, I know a couple of fat veggie birds. Dunno what they eat to make 'em fat - maybe they're just big boned?

PostRe: Being a Veggie = Smaller Brain by **SEP** » Tue Sep 16, 2008 9:14 pm

OLIN wrote:
satriales wrote:So if you're a fat vegetarian (do they exist?) then you're really screwed.

Yeah, I know a couple of fat veggie birds. Dunno what they eat to make 'em fat - maybe they're just big boned?

Deep fried cauliflower?

Other way round, people with small brains become vegetarians.

OLIN wrote:
satriales wrote:So if you're a fat vegetarian (do they exist?) then you're really screwed.

Yeah, I know a couple of fat veggie birds. Dunno what they eat to make 'em fat - maybe they're just big boned?

Cakes and chocolate are meat free normally.

smurphy wrote:Other way round, people with small brains become vegetarians.

ICWYDT.

Dirty meat-eating bastard.

The title is highly misleading. 'Vitamin B12 Deficiency Shrinks Brain' would be more accurate, but that's not nearly as sensationalist.

Also most vegetarians consume dairy products so are unlikely to be deficient in vitamin B12 anyway.

Yeah, some great reporting there.

PostRe: Being a Veggie = Smaller Brain by **NGE** » Tue Sep 16, 2008 9:35 pm

Anung Un Rama wrote:Meh i dont agree with Veggies, plus i guess this accounts for them being small minded.

Oh the ironing.

Maybe I just don't like the taste of meat? Would you eat a plate of gooseberry fool? No.

NGE wrote:
Anung Un Rama wrote:Meh i dont agree with Veggies, plus i guess this accounts for them being small minded.

Oh the ironing.

Maybe I just don't like the taste of meat? Would you eat a plate of gooseberry fool? No.

I love the "I don't agree with vegetarians, we have evolved to meat eat" argument.

Gets me every time.

PostRe: Being a Veggie = Smaller Brain by **Uppa** » Tue Sep 16, 2008 9:39 pm

Well crap. I just get my goitre* problem sorted out and now this happens.

*Iodine deficiency.

PostRe: Being a Veggie = Smaller Brain by **NGE** » Tue Sep 16, 2008 9:41 pm

It's odd, because I have no issue at all with meat eaters who like to fill their arteries with cholesterol and their bowels with years (yes, literally years) of partially digested meat that their bodies have no hope of getting rid off (except by colonic irrigation).

Still, I'm safe in the knowledge that my cholesterol count is 2.7 (and I'm a smoker) and that I'm 11 and a half stone.

Yeah, I'm gutted I don't like meat. :lol:

I had a veggie burger once.

Never again.

PostRe: Being a Veggie = Smaller Brain by **SEP** » Tue Sep 16, 2008 9:43 pm

And I'm safe in the knowledge that I just had a wonderful chicken and stuffing sandwich, and that I don't give two gooseberry fools what it's doing to my body, because I'd rather live a shortened, enjoyable life, than a lengthened, boring one.

PostRe: Being a Veggie = Smaller Brain by **NGE** » Tue Sep 16, 2008 9:44 pm

Anung Un Rama wrote:I weigh 9.

Yeah, but aren't you about 11?

PostRe: Being a Veggie = Smaller Brain by **NGE** » Tue Sep 16, 2008 9:45 pm

MCN wrote:And I'm safe in the knowledge that I just had a wonderful chicken and stuffing sandwich, and that I don't give two gooseberry fools what it's doing to my body, because I'd rather live a shortened, enjoyable life, than a lengthened, boring one.

My life's certainly not boring. :lol:

Because people who eat healthily always lead boring lives.....

Yeah, that makes sense. Good point, well made MCN.

MCN wrote:And I'm safe in the knowledge that I just had a wonderful chicken and stuffing sandwich, and that I don't give two gooseberry fools what it's doing to my body, because I'd rather live a shortened, enjoyable life, than a lengthened, boring one.

I don't count meat as one of life's hugely fulfilling pleasures. And didn't you lose your virginity at 25 or something? Consistency, MCN.

PostRe: Being a Veggie = Smaller Brain by **SEP** » Tue Sep 16, 2008 9:46 pm

NGE wrote:
MCN wrote:And I'm safe in the knowledge that I just had a wonderful chicken and stuffing sandwich, and that I don't give two gooseberry fools what it's doing to my body, because I'd rather live a shortened, enjoyable life, than a lengthened, boring one.

My life's certainly not boring.

I couldn't imagine a life without chicken and stuffing sandwiches.

PostRe: Being a Veggie = Smaller Brain by **NGE** » Tue Sep 16, 2008 9:46 pm

Anung Un Rama wrote:
NGE wrote:
Anung Un Rama wrote:I weigh 9.

Yeah, but aren't you about 11?

Sho' momma.

strawberry floating childish veggie banana split.

Eh? I'm a banana split? Is that your comeback? Sure you're not veggie?

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