Vitamins and IQ

Race , Genes , and IQ

According to The Bell Curve (New York: Free Press, 1994), Black Americans are genetically inferior to Whites. That's not the only point in Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray's book. They also argue that there is something called "general intelligence" which is measured by IQ tests, socially important, and 60 percent "heritable" within Whites. (I'll explain heritability below.) But my target ...

جغرافیا یا ژئوپلیتیک IQ

Vitamins and cardiovascular disease.

CVD is a major cause of mortality and morbidity in the Western world. In recent years its importance has expanded internationally and it is believed that by 2020 it will be the biggest cause of mortality in the world, emphasising the importance to prevent or minimise this increase. A beneficial role for vitamins in CVD has long been explored but the data are still inconsistent. While being supp...

Vitamins and Brain Health

Copyright: © 2012 de Jager CA. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Brain shrinkage occurs with ageing and has been shown to predict the decline of mental functions such as memory, executive functio...

Homocysteine, vitamins and sex.

tHcy predicted vascular disease more strongly in women than in men, while the reverse was true for fasting tHcy. While post-methionine tHcy was higher in men than in women, in line with previous studies, the percentage change was greater in women, possibly reflecting an overdose of methionine with respect to lean tissue mass. Unlike previous studies, the current paper found only slight evidence...