CURRY BEAR

Curry is hot and curry is spicy. If you eat enough you’ll have a better lifey. According to an article on Reuters.com, curry can help sharpen your mind like a number 2 pencil in the hands of an asian girl taking the SATs. If you implement curry in your diet you can protect your aging brain according to a study done on Asians. Curcumin, which is found in curry spice turmeric, has antioxidants and anti-inflammatory properties. Antioxidants such as vitamin E have been known to protect neurons in lab experiments but have had limited success in improving cognitive decline in patients with mild to moderate dementia.
Here is what the article had to say:

“In their study, Dr. Tze-Pin Ng from National University of Singapore and colleagues compared scores on the Mini-Mental State Exam (MMSE) for three categories of regular curry consumption in 1,010 nondemented Asians who were between 60 and 93 years old in 2003.Most of the study subjects consumed curry at least occasionally (once every 6 months), 43 percent ate curry at least often or very often (between monthly and daily) while 16 percent said they never or rarely ate curry.After taking into account factors that could impact test results, they found that people who consumed curry “occasionally” and “often or very often” had significantly better MMSE scores than did those who “never or rarely” consumed curry.“Even with the low and moderate levels of curry consumption reported by the respondents, better cognitive performance was observed,” Ng and colleagues report.]“In view of its efficacy and remarkably low toxicity,” curry shows promise for the prevention of Alzheimer’s disease, the researchers conclude.”

So Curry Bear says if you don’t want your parents to forget who you are, feed them curry.

For the full article you can go to :

http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=healthNews&storyID=2006-10-26T161104Z_01_COL657892_RTRUKOC_0_US-CURRY-MINDS.xml&WTmodLoc=NewsHome-C3-healthNews-3

If you think you might have Dementia, here is a test to find out.

OK, relax, clear your mind and… begin.

WELL MAYBE NOT THAT CLEAR!
1. What do you put in a toaster?

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Answer: “bread.” If you said “toast,” then give up now and go do something else. Try not to hurt yourself. If you said, “bread,” go to Question 2.

2. Say “silk” five times. Now spell “silk.” What do cows drink?

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Answer: Cows drink water. If you said “milk,” please do not attempt the next question. Your brain is obviously over stressed and may even overheat. It may be that you need to content yourself with reading something more appropriate such as Children’s World. If you said “water” then proceed to question 3.

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3. If a red house is made from red bricks and a blue house is made from blue bricks and a pink house is made from pink bricks and a black house is made from black bricks, what is a green house made from?

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Answer: Greenhouses are made from glass. If you said “green bricks,” what the devil are you still doing here reading these questions?????
If you said “glass,” then! go on to Question 4.

4. It’s twenty years ago, and a plane is flying at 20,000 feet over Germany (If you will recall, Germany at the time was politically divided into West Germany and East Germany.) Anyway, during the flight, TWO of the engines fail. The pilot, realizing that the last remaining engine is also failing, decides on a crash landing procedure. Unfortunately the engine fails before he has time and the plane fatally crashes smack in the middle of “no man’s land” between East Germany and West Germany. Where would you bury the survivors? East Germany or West Germany or in “no man’ s land”?

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Answer: You don’t, of course, bury survivors.

If you said ANYTHING else, you are a real dunce and you must NEVER try to rescue anyone from a plane crash. Your efforts would not be appreciated. If you said, “Don’t bury the survivors”, then proceed to the next question.

5. Without using a calculator – You are driving a bus from London to Milford Haven in Wales. In London, 17 people get on the bus. In Reading, six people get off the bus and nine people get on. In Swindon, two people get off and four get on. In Cardiff, 11 people get off and 16 people get on. In Swansea, three people get off and five people get on In Carmathen, six people get off and three get on. You then arrive at Milford Haven. What was the name of the bus driver?

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Answer: Oh, for crying out loud!
Don’t you remember your own name? It was YOU!!