Digestive Health

Good Nutrition, Healthy Brain

Your brain is what you eat – for better or for worse. That’s what OHSU’s Gene Bowman found in a study on nutrition and the brain published in late December in the journal Neurology. The study has received a deluge of national and international media coverage during the last couple of weeks. The study found that elderly people with diets high in vitamins B, C, D, and E and in omega 3 fatty acids are … Read More

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Posted by: Todd Murphy in Alzheimer's, Digestive Health, Neurology
On: Wednesday, January 11, 2012

All Fructose…All the Time?

While having a meal with the kids this past weekend, I spotted this list of ingredients on a “Honey Sauce” packet – where honey is #4 in the list of ingredients. (none of us ate this by the way) The fructose-heavy food reminded me of some recent news from OHSU explaining how the brain reacts differently to the popular ingredient when compared to other sugars. Here’s the release:               … Read More

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Posted by: Jim Newman in Diabetes, Digestive Health, Obesity
On: Wednesday, September 14, 2011
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