“Interesting if true, if not… interesting anyway” –Mark Twain

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Could it be that we have it all wrong about our ‘slower’ brains as we age.  These German researchers suggest so, explaining that older brains take longer to process information because they have so much information stored from past experience, that it takes more time to sift through this data. Take heart…as we age….we all …

FIBER DOES NOT PREVENT DIVERTICULOSIS

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Diverticulosis is a common condition, occuring in 60% of men and women 60 years old.  These ‘pouches’ on the colon are generally asymptomatic and either remain unknown in a patient, are found at the time of colonoscopy, or come to attention when the patient develops a case of diverticulitis (inflammation of the diverticula ‘pouches’). That …