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Vitamin E is another common memory nostrum, popular because it is an antioxidant, able to gather up and neutralize cell-damaging chemicals known as free radicals, a highly reactive form of oxygen that is a normal byproduct of metabolism. Like ginkgo, vitamin E has been tested mostly on Alzheimer's patients and has been shown to slow down the advance of the disease as much as seven months--not much for a condition that takes years to do its brain-ravaging work, but progress nonetheless. "There is a lot of evidence that there's oxidative damage in the brain both...
JANET JACKSON was always supposed to be the normal one, but then everything is relative. After years of denying she and companion RENE ELIZONDO were, in fact, married, Jackson, 33, was served with divorce papers in Los Angeles last week. Turns out the couple got hitched in a 1991 ceremony at their San Diego vacation home, but according to Elizondo, 37, they kept it secret from almost everyone because "some of the public figures that announce their marriage seem to dissolve quickly." Jackson and Elizondo announced an amicable parting in February 1999, but the divorce papers could signal a less...
Those who support the U.S. having permanent normal trade relations with China are delusional, shortsighted and naive. The agreement may cut Chinese tariffs and serve to open up new markets for American manufacturers and service providers, but inward-looking China will not turn on a dime to meet U.S. criteria for human rights. China will promise the moon but deliver only manufactured products and immigrants to its trading partners. In the short term, North American jobs will be lost when U.S. manufacturers move plants to China, where labor is cheap. The U.S. trade deficit with China will escalate to frightening...
Forget it. Mental slips like these are a normal part of mid-life. Even teenagers, capable of reeling off entire CDs of rock lyrics, occasionally blank out--though one might be suspicious of instances involving chores requested by parents or teachers. Unless your forgetfulness is accompanied by deeper failures in reasoning and logic, it's nothing to fret about. After all, if being absentminded were a sign of mental disarray, you'd have to write off Einstein, who bungled simple arithmetic even while working on relativity...
Even then, don't jump to hasty conclusions. In middle age, many things can cause memory loss or mental fuzziness, to say nothing of confused thinking--menopause, for example, whose effects can be eased with estrogen-replacement therapy. Also, keep in mind (remember?) that age takes a very normal toll on what psychologists call processing speed--the rapidity with which you can summon up the names of people and places. Our brains, in any case, have evolved with a certain built-in forgetfulness, lest they become hopelessly cluttered with useless information...