Saturday, 28 August 2010
Brains, Berries, Camouflage and taking out the Biochemical Rubbish
"Wild" strawberries
Hi. Welcome to Weirbeautiful. First link-of-the-day today is this brief news article reporting recent research that claims eating berries including strawberries and acai berries, wards off brain diseases, such as dementia. There seem to be endless health claims made about various foods, but in this case, at least, a biochemical mechanism has been proposed (supposedly the berries help the brain clear biochemical detritus that would otherwise accumulate and cause problems) -
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/21/20100823/thl-berries-help-to-clean-up-brain-d831572.html
Second link is to this impressive gallery of camouflaged animals, from shale grasshoppers, to pigmy seahorses, from The Sun newspaper-
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/features/3108508/Amazing-photographs-of-creatures-camouflaged-for-survival.html
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