Sugar- and Artificially Sweetened Beverages and the Risks of Incident Stroke and Dementia

Abstract

Background and Purpose—Sugar- and artificially-sweetened beverage intake have been linked to cardiometabolic risk factors, which increase the risk of cerebrovascular disease and dementia. We examined whether sugar- or artificially sweetened beverage consumption was associated with the prospective risks of incident stroke or dementia in the community-based Framingham Heart Study Offspring cohort.

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Total Breakdown of The Media’s Use of NLP & Mind Control

Jonathan Adampants gives a full in-depth analysis of the mind manipulation and NLP (neuro-linguistic programming) techniques utilised by Fox News anchors Sean Hannity and Alan Colmes during an interview with Kevin Barrett about 9/11.

Jonathan Adampants’s blog on Subliminal Manipulation: http://subliminalmanipulation.blogspo…

Consciousness Without Brain Activity: Near Death Experiences – Dr. Bruce Greyson

The United Nations, New York – September 11, 2008
Beyond the Mind-Body Problem: New Paradigms in the Science of Consciousness

An excerpt of Bruce Greyson, MD, PhD, from the panel discussion “Beyond the Brain: The Experiential Implications of Neurotheology”, speaking about how the brain does not equal the mind, and how near death experiences can contribute to knowledge about the mind-body connection.

Squid and octopus can edit and direct their own brain genes

Octopuses seem to have special gene editing powers

Tom Kleindinst/PA Wire

Octopuses and squid have confirmed their reputation as Earth-bound “aliens” with the discovery that they can edit their own genetic instructions.

Unlike other animals, cephalopods – the family that includes octopuses, squid and cuttlefish – do not obey the commands of their DNA to the letter.

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