experience this-Old wives tale or Not ???

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You can stop your ageing grandparents from becoming forgetful by

simply asking them to surf the net, for a new study has found that

Googling can

consistently stimulate brain to slow or even reverse the age-related

declines that can end in dementia.

Professor of neuroscience and human behaviour at University of

California, Los Angeles, Gary Small, observed 24 men and women aged

between 55 and 78 to reach the conclusion.

Half of the people were regular users of the net, while the remaining

persons were not. It was learnt that the Internet stimulated the mind

greater compared to reading, Timesonline reports.

Also the effects of an Internet session apparently continued for a

long period after it had ended.

During the research, the brains of the participants were scanned using

a technique known as functional magnetic resonance imaging, while they

conducted a series of searches on the web.

The purpose of which was to measure changes in blood flow around the

brain to figure out which was the most and least active parts of the

brain.

The participants then headed home where they surfed the net to carry

out specified tasks for an hour a day at least seven times over the

following fortnight, after which another brain scan was done while

using the net.

The researchers learnt that the impacts began immediately, with the

first scan demonstrating brain activity in regions controlling

language, reading, memory and vision.

However, the second scan result found that the activated areas had

widened to the frontal gyrus and inferior frontal gyrus, which are

significant areas in working memory and decision-making.

The researchers reached the conclusion that Internet searching

stimulates brain cells and pathways, making them more active.

Teena Moody, a UCLA researcher who co- wrote the report with Small,

said: " Searching online may be a simple form of brain exercise that

might be employed to enhance cognition in older adults. "

The research will be presented at the annual meeting of the Society

for Neuroscience in Chicago.

 

--- On Tue, 10/13/09, Ann Hutson <witchinwizard wrote:

 

 

Ann Hutson <witchinwizard

Old wives tale or Not ???

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Tuesday, October 13, 2009, 11:07 PM

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Old wives tale or Not ?

 

A friend of mine told me a story about how when he was a kid he was in the

hospital & near dying.  His Italian grandmother came to the hospital & told a

family member to go buy her a large onion & a new pair of white cotton socks. 

She sliced the onion open then put a slice on the bottom of each of his feet &

put the white cotton socks on him.  In the morning when he awoke they removed

the socks.  The slices of onion were black & his fever was gone.  The following

story that someone sent to me might have some truth in it & we are going to

try it this winter.

 

In 1919 when the flu killed 40  million people there was this Doctor that

visited the many  farmers to see if he could help them combat the flu. Many of

the farmers and their family had contracted it and  many died.

 

The doctor came upon this one farmer and to his surprise,  everyone was very

healthy. When the doctor asked what  the farmer was doing that was different the

wife replied  that she had placed an unpeeled onion in a dish in the rooms  of

the home, (probably only two rooms back then). The  doctor couldn't believe it

and asked if he could have one of  the onions and place it under the

microscope.  She gave  him one and when he did this, he did find the flu virus

in  the onion.  It obviously absorbed the bacteria, therefore, keeping the

family healthy.

 

Now, I heard this story from my hairdresser in AZ.   She said that several years

ago many of her employees were  coming down with the flu and so were many of

her  customers.  The next year she placed several bowls with  onions around in

her shop.  To her surprise, none of  her staff got sick.  It must work..  (And

no, she is not in the onion business.)

 

The moral of the story is, buy some onions and place them  in bowls around your

home.  If you work at a desk,  place one or two in your office or under your

desk or even  on top somewhere.  Try it and see what happens.   We did it last

year and we never  got the flu.

 

If this helps you and your loved ones from getting sick,  all the better.  If

you do get the flu, it just might  be a mild case..

 

Whatever, what have you to lose?  Just a few bucks on  onions!!!!!! !!!!!!!!

 

Now there is a P. S. to this for I sent it to a friend in Oregon who regularly

contributes material to me on health issues.  She replied with this most

interesting experience about onions:

 

Weldon,thanks for the reminder.  I don't know about the farmers story...but, I

do know that I contacted pneumonia and needless to say I was very ill....I came

across an article that said to cut both ends off an onion put one end on a fork

and then place the forked end into an empty jar...placing the jar next to the

sick patient at night. It said the onion would be black in the morning from the

germs...sure enough it happened just like that...the onion was a mess and I

began to feel better.

 

Another thing I read in the article was that onions and garlic placed around the

room saved many from the black plague years ago. They have powerful

antibacterial, antiseptic properties.