ON THE southern rim of Moscow, where the din of traffic gives way to a silent forest, three steeples shimmer over the trees. On closer inspection, these belong to a magnificent new church. Inside it, and in a much cosier wooden edifice next door, every inch of wall commemorates people who were massacred in this area 60 years ago. Many are depicted in icons, celebrating them as martyrs whose prayers in the afterlife protect the church.

This memorial to victims of Stalin’s purges (albeit mainly recalling one category, Christian believers) sends a timely message to a Russia where reflection on the perils of an over-mighty state is rare. Its construction is one reason why, last year, most of the New York-based Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia (ROCOR) agreed to unite with the Patriarchate of Moscow, which “White” anticommunist exiles long saw as tainted by red links.

As one condition for reunion, ROCOR had insisted that due honour be shown to the so-called “new martyrs” who died for their faith under the Soviet regime. Visiting the memorial near Moscow, it seems hard to deny that this demand has at least in part been fulfilled. To many people, reunion seemed irreversible after Moscow’s Patriarch Alexy joined the late head of ROCOR, Metropolitan Laurus, in laying foundations for the Butovo church.

But for a passionate minority of ROCOR clerics and believers, dotted across North and South America, Europe and Australia, the Moscow-based church hasn’t gone nearly far enough to justify coming together. For these dissidents, it matters a lot that hierarchs in Moscow still approve the accord made with the communists in 1927 by Sergius, an Orthodox bishop who signed a statement accepting the Soviet Union as a “civil motherland”. By justifying Sergius, the dissidents insist, the Moscow church implicitly condemns others who went underground or remained defiant and paid with their lives.

The dissenters’ argument is that by defending deals made under the Soviet regime, today’s church is endorsing a Soviet-era episcopate which not only obeyed Stalin but fawned on him. Supporters of the reunion retort that most of today’s Russian episcopate was elevated after the Soviet period; they also hope that the reunion will help along a continuing reassessment of all eras of Russian history. Across the Russian diaspora, the dispute has divided parishes and formerly close-knit communities. Priests have broken with bishops, theology students with their professors.

The intra-Russian dispute is only one example of a paradox in the recent history of the world’s largest religion. Almost every time two Christian communities—split by politics, race, culture or doctrine—decide to reunite, a new division is created by those who cannot accept the merger.

In Christendom as a whole, most recent merger activity has been among schools of Protestantism which now feel that doctrinal differences between John Calvin (1509-1564) and Martin Luther (1483-1546) shouldn’t be a make-or-break matter in the 21st century.

The Geneva-based World Council of Churches (WCC), an association of about 350 Christian groups, has counted 50 “reunited” churches (all involving varieties of Protestantism) and 40 churches that are engaged in talks that could lead to further mergers. But not even the WCC’s keenest enthusiasts are sure that the movement towards unity is stronger than the trend towards fragmentation.

In any case, for Roman Catholics and Orthodox Christians the idea of a “reunion” between churches is paradoxical, if not contradictory; they speak of the Church as a mystical reality of which they are the main or sole representatives, and which almost by definition cannot be divided. For Protestants, the idea at least of “uniting churches” is not so problematic. A dozen intra-Protestant mergers have been modelled on one that occurred in Canada in 1925. India is one of the few countries where Christians who defer to bishops managed to merge with those who don’t.

www.economist.com

Saturday, November 8, 2008
Location: Meaford Museum, 111 Bayfield St.

Children of all ages are invited to the Museum for a Christmas decorating party! We will be making old fashioned decorations that will then be used to decorate the museum and it’s Christmas tree for the holiday season.

Children will also be able to create decorations to take home and decorate their own tree.

Parents must accompany children. Cost: $2.00. Time: 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Contact: Pamela Woolner
Phone: 519-538-5974
Email: meafordmuseum@meaford.ca
Website: http://www.meafordmuseum.ca

With great people, to say the least. The Treasure Shop is staffed by a large number of enthusiastic volunteers who will be only too pleased to help you find whatever treasure you might be looking for! We provide recycled clothing and quality house wares at very reasonable prices. Please visit us often. If you are donating goods, we appreciate receiving clean, saleable items. Please DO NOT donate the following: strollers, car seats, cribs, playpens, microwave ovens, computers, TV sets, sharp knives, life jackets, protective helmets or mattresses. Please, no wire hangers or items that are soiled, ripped, rusted or broken. Due to lack of storage, we CAN NOT accept large items.

If you are unsure about an item, which you are thinking of donating, please ask a Treasure Shop volunteer or call us.

Hours of Operation Tuesday 10:00AM-12:00PM; Wednesday 10:00AM-5:00PM; Thursday 10:00AM-3:00PM; Friday 4:00PM-7:00PM AND the first and last Saturday of each month 10:00AM-12:00PM

Contact: Treasure Shop – Volunteers
Phone: 519-599-2577 ext 24

Christmas Hampers

BVO takes applications from people in our community who may need assistance and support over the Christmas holidays. Donations of cash, clothing and toys goods are assembled and hampers are prepared by a group of BVO volunteers. The hampers include gifts, clothing, festive foods and treats. The hampers are made available to approved applicants the week before Christmas. The names and addresses of all applicants are only known to our Executive Director.

Please click on the file below for a copy of the 2007 application. Please note that BVO is only able to accept applications from families or individuals who reside in The Town of the Blue Mountains.
Contact: Executive Director
Phone: 519-599-2577 ext 21
Fax: 519-599-9979
Email: executivedir@bvo.ca
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Emergency Assistance

Emergency assistance may be provided for food, clothing, shelter and transportation. During the period of April 2006 to March 2007, we provided assistance to over 350 individuals or families. All requests are handled on a completely confidential basis – at BVO we respect your privacy. If you would like to make a donation of cash to support our emergency food services, you can call our Executive Director.
Contact: Executive Director
Phone: 519-599-2577 ext 21
Fax: 519-599-9979
Email: executivedir@bvo.ca

Good Food Box

This monthly fruit and vegetable buying cooperative makes healthy food available at a very reasonable rate. A family box can be purchased for $14.00 and a single box for $8.00. Available for anyone in our community. Subsidy is available. Good Food Boxes are availbale for purchase each month, please contact Sherrie Lee to apply. The boxes are picked up from Beaver Valley Community Centre on the 3rd Wed of the month from Sept – June.
Contact: Sherrie Lee
Phone: 519-599-2577 ext 25
Fax: 519-599-9979
Email: oeyc@bvo.ca

Grocery Deliver for Seniors

It's not always easy to shop & bring groceries home… At BVO, we know there are times you could use a little help. ANNOUNCING BVOs NEW GROCERY DELIVERY SERVICE FOR SENIORS. In partnership with Thornbury IGA, you will be able to place an order with IGA for groceries and a BVO volunteer will pick up the order and deliver it to your home. Please call us for more details.
Contact: Executive Director
Phone: 519-599-2577 ext 21
Fax: 519-599-9979
Email: info@bvo.ca
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Information and Referral

We maintain contact with other community and emergency service providers in our area. Referrals for individuals and families can be arranged as required. All personal information is confidential. At BVO, we respect your privacy.
Contact: Executive Director
Phone: 519-599-2577 ext 21
Fax: 519-599-9979
Email: executivedir@bvo.ca

Recreational Funding

Want to send your child to camp; register them for swimming lessons; enroll them in hockey, skating, music, dance, soccer or art? BVO has a Recreational Funding service designed to help with the cost of all sorts of recreational activities for children up to 18 years of age. This program is partially funded by Thornbury / Clarksburg Rotary with thanks! Click on file below for a copy of our registration form. Please also have a look at the many sports programs available through the Beaver Valley Athletic Association (BVAA)
Contact: Executive Director
Phone: 519-599-2577 ext 21
Fax: 519-599-9979
Email: info@bvo.ca
Website: http://www.bvaa.ca
Rec funding application 2008.doc (694 KB)

Transportation

Transportation may be requested for medical, dental, legal and parenting appointments. This service is provided for a minimal fee of $5.00 and is available to any member of the community who is not covered by Home & Community Support Services or any other agencies.

Please click on the file below to obtain a copy of BVO's Policies and Procedures as they apply to our volunteer drivers.
Contact: Barb Swanson – Transportation Coordinator
Phone: 519-599-3114
2006 Policy and Procedures – Drivers.doc (24 KB)

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Under the guise of a second minority mandate, Canadians may have handed Conservative Leader Stephen Harper a poisoned chalice.

Over the next few years, it will be his dubious honour to steer the country through the first period of deep economic turmoil of the new century.

In sharp contrast with those of his predecessors who were unlucky enough to govern Canada in hard economic times, Harper will have to do so within the straight jacket of the zero-deficit creed.

Over the past decade, the notion of balancing the books has become an ironclad rule of federal politics. But it has never been tested over a period when the economy is hovering in negative territory.

As if that were not a tall enough order, Harper will have to weather the storm with one eye on an estranged Quebec that could quickly become a hotbed of dissatisfaction with his government.

For the biggest paradox of yesterday's victory is that, even as he has secured more seats than in the previous Parliament, Harper's governing coalition is no more national in scope today than when the election was called.

It is still without representation from Montreal and Toronto, the country's two biggest cities. Newfoundland and Labrador is also missing in action.

Premier Danny Williams had vowed to run the federal Conservatives out of his province and he has succeeded.

And then, Quebec – where Harper invested so much political capital since he came to office – refused to join Ontario on the Conservative bandwagon.

www.thestar.com

Trevor Green in an Afghan village two days before he was wounded. (March 2, 2006)

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Every generation updates and renews the values that make us who we are. I once found it hard to truly understand what those in my grandfather’s generation meant when they spoke of making the ultimate sacrifice in wartime to allow their loved ones back home to live in a democracy.

Until, that is, I myself almost lost it all in a remote village in Afghanistan on behalf of the values that make us Canadian, values that I now see as under threat not by a foreign force, but by a domestic one.

Compared with others who did make the ultimate sacrifice in Afghanistan, like my friend Bill Turner, who took my place in the field, my story has been well publicized.

On March 4, 2006, I was part of the 1st Battalion PPCLI battle group in the tiny village of Shinkay, when during a meeting with local elders to discuss their needs for water, housing and education, an insurgent sneaked up behind our group and buried a crude axe in my skull.

Unconscious, I was taken to the base hospital in Kandahar, where I was stabilized for the flight to a U.S.-run hospital in Germany. Fast forward through 10 hospitals and today I am back living in Canada with the goal of proving wrong those doctors who said that I’d never walk again.

Every morning, I also wake up and count my blessings, as we all should, that I get to spend another day with loved ones. My wife Debbie has stood beside me like a rock, and my young daughter keeps giving me that jolt of energy that only kids can give their parents, and I need it more than most. We now have a son on the way.

Frequently, however, the newspapers bring clouds to my day. The Canada I went overseas to fight for was a tolerant and open society, always striving to do the right thing, and to bring to the world a sense that tomorrow can be better than today.

Today, though, the government in Ottawa seems to want to throw all that out the window. Stephen Harper’s vision of Canada seems to begin, and end, in the tarsands, and everything else be damned. Tolerance is redefined as applying only to anyone who agrees with that vision. Everyone else is “radical,” an “extremist,” or even included in his government’s new program battling terrorism.

This is an insult to those of us who have fought, and sacrificed for our country, against real radicals, real extremists and real terrorists.

When I read about ministers of the Crown attacking and smearing heroes like David Suzuki, who are trying to put us on a more sustainable pathway, I wonder what’s happened to Canada. I fear for the kind of world my daughter and son stand to inherit should we cave in to this oil-driven agenda. Not a good one, I am certain.

via Trevor Greene: From one battlefield to another – thestar.com.

Competition with pink salmon in the open ocean could be an important factor in the long-term decline in abundance of sockeye salmon populations in the Fraser River, according to new research from Simon Fraser University scientists and international colleagues.

Salmon farming along migration routes for juvenile Fraser River sockeye and warming sea temperatures could also play a role.

“Although none of these three factors can explain much of the declines in sockeye salmon by themselves, when considered in combination they appear to play a very important role,” says Brendan Connors, a post-doctoral fellow in the School of Resource and Environmental Management (REM) at SFU and lead author of the paper published today (May 17) in the journal Conservation Letters.

The research team discovered that increasing numbers of pink salmon across the North Pacific Ocean appear to be leading—directly or indirectly—to increasing competition for food with Fraser sockeye salmon, especially in years when the juvenile sockeye salmon first migrate past large numbers of farmed salmon. 

“It is possible that passing close to salmon farms early in their ocean life may weaken the ability of sockeye to compete for food with pink salmon in the open ocean,” said co-author Lawrence Dill, a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and professor emeritus of SFU Biological Sciences. “This could arise if sockeye pick up viruses, bacteria, or parasites as they pass by salmon farms.”

The study also found that increasing ocean temperature early in life reduces survival of juvenile sockeye, but the effect of warming oceans is weaker than increasing numbers of the competitively dominant pink salmon.

“This study is a critical step towards understanding the factors causing decreasing abundance of Fraser sockeye salmon over the last 20 years”, says Randall Peterman, Canada Research Chair in fisheries risk assessment and management in REM and a co-author of the study.

Another co-author, Doug Braun, a doctoral student in the Earth to Ocean Research Group at SFU, adds: “Salmon migrate thousands of kilometres at sea and they obviously do not respect international borders. Our results highlight the need for countries across the North Pacific Rim to manage limited salmon resources at an oceanic scale. “

The SFU study is the first to consider simultaneously evidence related to multiple possible explanations for the declines in Fraser sockeye populations that began in the early 1990s. Those declines triggered a $25-million federal judicial inquiry, the Cohen Commission, which held hearings in 2010 and 2011. Its final report is due by Sept. 30.

Other researchers involved: Andrew Cooper, associate professor in REM; John Reynolds, professor, SFU Biological Sciences (on sabbatical in Australia), Tom Buell, B.C. Leadership Chair in salmon conservation, SFU Biological Sciences; Greg Ruggerone, senior scientist, Natural Resources Consultants, Seattle; and Martin Krkosek, lecturer in ecology, University of Otago, New Zealand.

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Over the past few years, as the green movement has grown, more attention has been paid to our food system. Pollution is rampant, we've become removed from knowing how or where our food was grown, and food-borne illness outbreaks are a constant problem.

While food might not be a focus on the presidential campaign trail (aside from bloggers watching the candidates' waistlines), Michael Pollan, author of The Omnivore's Dilemma and In Defense of Food, among other books, suggests it should be. In the New York Times magazine, he addressed the president-elect, suggesting that food must be a priority of the administration.

Why will food become such a central issue? Pollan says food must be addressed in order to successfully reform climate change (the author says the food system uses more fossil fuel than any other sector of the economy or put another way, "when we eat from the industrial-food system, we are eating oil and spewing greenhouse gases"); the health care crisis ("It is no coincidence that in the years national spending on health care went from 5 percent to 16 percent of national income, spending on food has fallen by a comparable amount,"–all of those cheap calories have affected public health, and our diets have to be addressed); and food has to be a focus due to its global impact.

The food riots that erupted over the past year illustrate the reach of our food policy: "It is one of the larger paradoxes of our time that the very same food policies that have contributed to overnutrition in the first world are now contributing to undernutrition in the third." Pollan says.

We know by now that federal subsidies made crops such as corn and soybeans artificially cheap: farmers were paid by the government to help keep the costs of those crops low. That led to inexpensive byproducts, such as high fructose corn syrup (HFCS), which is why fast food–burgers made from corn-fed beef, sodas sweetened with HFCS–is so cheap. (The movie King Corn provides a look at the history of the crop.)

The food crisis that we've witnessed over the past year suggests that things have changed. In addressing the president-elect, Pollan says, "with a suddenness that has taken us all by surprise, the era of cheap and abundant food appears to be drawing to a close."

But never the pessimist, Pollan says that the good news is that the double crises of food and energy may create an environment in which it is truly possible to reform our food system, the current system that is "designed to maximize production at all costs and relying on cheap energy to do so."

And he's got a plan! And it involves sunlight!

He suggests weaning the American food system off of its heavy 20th century diet of fossil fuel and putting it back on a diet of contemporary sunshine. It's a sun-food agenda.

If the federal government could create a system of enticing farmers to grow only those crops for which they'll receive subsidies, artificially lowering the price of them, then the feds can go the other way. Create a policy that encourages "diversified sun farming." Farmers would receive payments that reflect the number of different crops they grow or the number of days their fields are green, Pollan suggests. Encourage the planting of cover crops and the application of compost.

Pollan also suggests the reregionalizing of the food system, shortening the food chain. Need to be reminded about the largest beef recall in US history or the salmonella outbreak from peppers? Pollan points out the ramifications of such an incident should it involve a terrorist attack: "When a single factory is grinding 20 million hamburger patties in a week or washing 25 million servings of a salad, a single terrorist armed with a canister or toxins can, at a stroke, poison millions."

Pollan's tips for how to begin to nurture the market and make food more affordable are basic but brilliant: four-season farmers markets; local meat inspection corps; reregionalize federal food procurement.

His ideas for rebuilding America's food culture include a second calorie count on every packaged food product indicating how many calories of fossil fuel went into its products, and a White House policy of one meatless day a week (the equivalent, in carbon saved, of taking 20 million midsize sedans off the road for a year.)

Then we'd really have to think about what we're eating. This would all lead to the revival of farming in America, of course. Pollan says this sun-food agenda "enlists all of us in this great cause by turning food consumers into part-time producers, reconnecting the American people with the American land and demonstrating that we need not choose between the welfare of our families and the health of the environment–that eating less oil and more sunlight will redound to the benefit of both."

www.thedailygreen.com

The walk-in medical clinic was about to close for the day when Susan Biali got a call from one of her longtime patients. Could the doctor please hang in a bit longer? The caller was feeling very ill and needed to see her immediately. An exhausted Biali extended her already burdensome day and waited for the patient to arrive. Some time later, the woman sauntered in; she was perfectly fine. She just needed a prescription refill.

"She totally lied to me," the Vancouver doctor recalls. "Afterwards, I was so upset that the degree of my reaction troubled me. I'm a general physician with some training in psychiatry. Yet I couldn't put my finger on exactly why I was so bothered. I thought it was a flaw in myself."

Eventually, she identified what set her off: "You think you're in an innocuous situation—a typical doctor-patient encounter. But the woman took complete advantage of my compassion. Then, not only wouldn't she acknowledge the lie, but she looked at me blankly and demanded, 'Can't you just move on and give me my prescription?' She made me feel that I was the problem."

Ever wonder how an encounter goes so quickly awry? Doubt your own perceptions? Feel thrown totally off balance by another person? Find yourself acting crazy when you're really a very nice person? Manipulation comes in many forms: There are whiners. There are bullies. There are the short-fused. Not to forget the highly judgmental. Or the out-and-out sociopath. But they often have one thing in common: Their MO is to provoke, then make you feel you have no reason to react—and it's all your fault to begin with! Feeling deeply discounted, even totally powerless, while having to jettison the original aim of an interaction is a distressing double whammy of social life—and a cardinal sign you're dealing with a difficult person. No, it's not you. It's them. And it's the emotional equivalent of being mowed down by a hit-and-run driver.

It doesn't take a sociopath; anyone can be difficult in a heartbeat. "To a great extent, the problem is in the eye of the beholder," says Topeka, Kansas, psychologist Harriet Lerner, author of the now-classic Dance of Anger and the just-released Relationship Rules. "We all come into relationships with hot-button issues from our own past. For one person what's difficult might be dealing with someone who's judgmental. For another it might be a person who treats you as if you're invisible." That said, she adds that there are certain qualities that make people persistently hard to handle—hair-trigger defensiveness that obliterates the ability to listen, meanness, and a sense of worthlessness that leads people to bulk up self-esteem by putting down others, just to name a few.

Experience motivates most of us to avoid or minimize interacting with such people. But sometimes that problem person is a sibling, a boss, a coworker. Even your mother. And managing the relationship by distancing yourself or cutting it off altogether is impossible or undesirable. The goal, in such cases, is to prepare in advance for an encounter, knowing it will take a special effort to hold onto your own sense of self, and to stay calm.

Although it is typically disturbing to be in the presence of such people, remaining composed in the face of unreasonableness helps you figure out exactly what species of difficulty you're dealing with. Therein lies your advantage. It allows you to predict the specific emotional trap being set for you, which is your passport to getting your own power back.

In the Hothouse at Home vs. Tough at Work

In dealing with a difficult person, the setting is everything.

Handling difficult people at work is not quite the same as coping with problem people in family life. The goal is to get the work done, and that requires great caution and considerable strategizing. "It's not like a marriage, where the dailiness of living will allow you to repair a lot of interactions gone wrong," Lerner observes.

In a marriage, she says, it's often advisable to exit a conversation. Of course, there are a variety of ways to do that. A common one is to scream "I hate you" and slam a door behind you. Better, she advises, to say something like: "I love you, I want to be here for you, I want to hear your criticisms, but I cannot listen when you throw them at me rat-a-tat-tat. I need you to approach me with respect. So let's set up a 15-minute meeting after breakfast and start over." The difference is clarifying a loving position versus escalating things further.

The Hostile

Telltale signs: High, sometimes explosive, reactivity. Frequently disagreeable. Cynical. Mistrustful. Does not like to be wrong.

Where you'll find them: Corner offices. The Internet, often under the cloak of anonymity.

Call in the wild: "I am going to come and burn the f**king house down."

Notable Sightings: Mel Gibson. Mike Tyson. Naomi Campbell. Chris Brown. Russell Crowe. Courtney Love.

via The High Art of Handling Problem People | Psychology Today.

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A new UCLA  study is the first to show how a diet steadily high in fructose slows the brain, hampering memory and learning — and how omega-3 fatty acids can counteract the disruption. The peer-reviewed Journal of Physiology publishes the findings in its May 15 edition.

"Our findings illustrate that what you eat affects how you think," said Fernando Gomez-Pinilla, a professor of neurosurgery at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and a professor of integrative biology and physiology in the UCLA College of Letters and Science. "Eating a high-fructose diet over the long term alters your brain's ability to learn and remember information. But adding omega-3 fatty acids to your meals can help minimize the damage."

While earlier research has revealed how fructose harms the body through its role in diabetes, obesity and fatty liver, this study is the first to uncover how the sweetener influences the brain.

The UCLA team zeroed in on high-fructose corn syrup, an inexpensive liquid six times sweeter than cane sugar, that is commonly added to processed foods, including soft drinks, condiments, applesauce and baby food. The average American consumes more than 40 pounds of high-fructose corn syrup per year, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

"We're not talking about naturally occurring fructose in fruits, which also contain important antioxidants," explained Gomez-Pinilla, who is also a member of UCLA's Brain Research Institute and Brain Injury Research Center. "We're concerned about high-fructose corn syrup that is added to manufactured food products as a sweetener and preservative."

Gomez-Pinilla and study co-author Rahul Agrawal, a UCLA visiting postdoctoral fellow from India, studied two groups of rats that each consumed a fructose solution as drinking water for six weeks. The second group also received omega-3 fatty acids in the form of flaxseed oil and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), which protects against damage to the synapses — the chemical connections between brain cells that enable memory and learning.

"DHA is essential for synaptic function — brain cells' ability to transmit signals to one another," Gomez-Pinilla said. "This is the mechanism that makes learning and memory possible. Our bodies can't produce enough DHA, so it must be supplemented through our diet."

The animals were fed standard rat chow and trained on a maze twice daily for five days before starting the experimental diet. The UCLA team tested how well the rats were able to navigate the maze, which contained numerous holes but only one exit. The scientists placed visual landmarks in the maze to help the rats learn and remember the way.

Six weeks later, the researchers tested the rats' ability to recall the route and escape the maze. What they saw surprised them.

"The second group of rats navigated the maze much faster than the rats that did not receive omega-3 fatty acids," Gomez-Pinilla said. "The DHA-deprived animals were slower, and their brains showed a decline in synaptic activity. Their brain cells had trouble signaling each other, disrupting the rats' ability to think clearly and recall the route they'd learned six weeks earlier."

The DHA-deprived rats also developed signs of resistance to insulin, a hormone that controls blood sugar and regulates synaptic function in the brain. A closer look at the rats' brain tissue suggested that insulin had lost much of its power to influence the brain cells.

"Because insulin can penetrate the blood–brain barrier, the hormone may signal neurons to trigger reactions that disrupt learning and cause memory loss," Gomez-Pinilla said.

He suspects that fructose is the culprit behind the DHA-deficient rats' brain dysfunction. Eating too much fructose could block insulin's ability to regulate how cells use and store sugar for the energy required for processing thoughts and emotions.

via Sugar makes you stupid: Study shows high-fructose diet sabotages learning, memory.

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