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...estimates that nearly 800 million people around the world are undernourished. The effects are devastating. About 400 million women of childbearing age are iron deficient, which means their babies are exposed to various birth defects. As many as 100 million children suffer from vitamin A deficiency, a leading cause of blindness. Tens of millions of people suffer from other major ailments and nutritional deficiencies caused by lack of food...
...biotech help? Biotechnologists have developed genetically modified rice that is fortified with beta-carotene--which the body converts into vitamin A--and additional iron, and they are working on other kinds of nutritionally improved crops. Biotech can also improve farming productivity in places where food shortages are caused by crop damage attributable to pests, drought, poor soil and crop viruses, bacteria or fungi...
...only may memory potions not help, there is a real chance they could hurt. Ginkgo and vitamin E both act as blood thinners. Taking either one could increase the risk of internal bleeding; taking them together makes the danger even greater. NSAIDS can contribute to internal bleeding and anemia, aggravate ulcers and damage the kidneys...
...discovered that the package was--how best to put this?--not kidding. It's hard to say if my memory improved in the little time I was on ginkgo, but I can say I had no trouble at all remembering to eat a bland diet for several days afterward. Vitamin E had similarly little impact on my memory. Those antioxidants may be able to sponge up free radicals, but in my case either the sponge was not absorbing much or my brain was already pretty much free-radical free...
...older people too, memory problems may be the result of poor diet, vitamin deficiencies or glandular imbalances (all reversible with treatment) rather than the classic types of dementia associated with old age. Even if a physician ultimately diagnoses Alzheimer's disease--which is done by eliminating other possibilities rather than by a direct test, because none is available other than a brain biopsy--the news needn't be as bleak as it once might have seemed...