Power Up Your Memory

By Dr. Jonny Bowden

As we've reported in ETR, turmeric has many health benefits, including the ability to reduce the pain and stiffness of arthritis. But you can also use this spice to power up your memory.

Turmeric is what gives curry its yellow color. Its reputation as a super-spice is largely because of its anti-cancer properties and because it is such a powerful anti-inflammatory. But it also helps protect the brain. Scientists investigating Alzheimer's got interested in it because rates of this disease are so low in India, where curry is a staple. And they have pinpointed a compound in turmeric called curcumin, which has been proven to help prevent mental decline in laboratory animals.

So start adding turmeric to your food. It tastes great in scrambled eggs and in marinades for chicken, and is a great flavoring for bean dishes.

[Ed. Note: Dr. Jonny Bowden is a nationally known expert on weight loss, nutrition, and health.]

It's Good to Know: Little-Known Research Resources

Websites ending with ".edu" are the online homes of colleges, universities, and other educational institutions. They also host a great deal of research material in subjects as varied as languages, photography, art, the natural world, literature, and much more. Here are a few to check out...

• The Yale University Art Gallery has images of art from ancient times to the modern era: artgallery.yale.edu.

• Louisiana State University's Herbarium helps you identify plants, lichens, and fungi from around the world: herbarium.lsu.edu.

• By visiting George Mason University's Speech Accent Archive, you can listen to the same paragraph read by native speakers of many languages: accent.gmu.edu/index.php.

• The College of New Jersey Images of American Political History collection has more than 500 public domain images from 1750 to the present: teachpol.tcnj.edu/amer_pol_hist/index.htm.

Don't see anything that interests you in the above list? By entering "site:.edu [your subject]" (no quote marks) in Google, you can find information on just about anything you can imagine.

(Source: Lifehacker)

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