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I’m not saying that drinking juice will guarantee you an Alzheimer’s free life, but recent studies have revealed that it could help. In fact, the study showed that for those who drank juice once a week, their risk of developing Alzheimer’s was reduced by 16%. Quoted from the Yahoo! News article:

Although the scientific community had long thought that antioxidant vitamins like vitamins C and E or carotene had protective benefits against Alzheimer’s, the study confirmed their belief that “there was maybe something else,” Dai said, pointing to polyphenols, natural antioxidants found in juice, tea and wine.

What this “something else” is… we don’t know for now. However, juice is affordable and abundant for most countries, which makes it all the more worthwhile to start making it part of your diet (if you haven’t done so).

A study published in 2005 concluded that circumcision reduced HIV infection risk in heterosexual men by about 60%, according to the BBC. That’s not all. The boffins who conducted the study also made a mathematical model where the programmed scenario is that over the next 10 years, all men in sub-Saharan Africa were circumcised. The output is quoted below:

They calculated that within a decade some two million new HIV infections and 300,000 deaths could be prevented. And in the ten years after that, a further 3.7 million infections and 2.7 million deaths could be avoided – with one in four of the deaths prevented being in South Africa.

Interesting… What’s your take on this finding?

Results of a study conducted by Kaiser Permanente concludes that drinking coffee protects alcohol drinkers from developing liver-related diseases.

Of course, this study is not the first to come to such conclusions. I remember similar research regarding correlation between alcohol vs coffee consumption. However, do not assume that it’s the caffeine that’s providing this “protection”. Apparently, even after conducting this study, the researchers are still unsure of the element that’s causing this, however they’re absolutely certain that it’s not caffeine.

So, for swillers reading this… get your daily dose of coffee now.

It’s amazing how the sensory abilities of animals continue to amaze. It’s been discovered recently that labradors have the ability to detect the polycarbonates, lacquers and resins used in DVDs by scent.

Unsuprising enough, the study that led to this discovery was initiated by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) and the U.K.-based Federation Against Copyright Theft (FACT). However, the dogs can’t differenciate between pirated and legit DVDs… yet.

Jakob Nielsen wrote about how web content is read based on a study he conducted. His summary is as follows:

Eyetracking visualizations show that users often read Web pages in an F-shaped pattern: two horizontal stripes followed by a vertical stripe.

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