… but I’ll probably be smarter than you 😉
Going veggie could be bad for your brain-with those on a meat-free diet six times more likely to suffer brain shrinkage.
Vegans and vegetarians are the most likely to be deficient because the best sources of the vitamin are meat, particularly liver, milk and fish. Vitamin B12 deficiency can also cause anaemia and inflammation of the nervous system. Yeast extracts are one of the few vegetarian foods which provide good levels of the vitamin.
The link was discovered by Oxford University scientists who used memory tests, physical checks and brain scans to examine 107 people between the ages of 61 and 87. When the volunteers were retested five years later the medics found those with the lowest levels of vitamin B12 were also the most likely to have brain shrinkage. It confirms earlier research showing a link between brain atrophy and low levels of B12.
One thing though… don’t the subjects’ ages affect this test somewhat? They’re pretty old; who knows if their brain shrinkage is caused by veggies or just natural degeneration. Still, the B12 deficiency sounds credible, I’m just saying that it would’ve been better to use other test candidates.
If only they had tested on younger subjects, I’d have forwarded this to all my vegetarian friends 🙂 (But I’ll still do that, dun sa mga hardcore)