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If you look on the Internet for articles about foods that are good for your brain, you will find a lot of them. Some of these stories mention observational studies that have found a link between eating less or more of certain foods and the risk of dementia. But clinical studies that tried to find a link between certain nutrients or diets and how well the brain works have not found convincing evidence. Hussein Yassine, MD, associate professor of medicine and neurology at the Keck School of Medicine of USC and the Kenneth and Bette Volk Chair of Neurology of USC, said that many trials have not found that making people eat healthy or exercise has the benefits that epidemiological research predicts. "That means either there isn't a cause-and-effect link or these studies aren't set up right." To figure out why epidemiological research and clinical trials don't match up, Yassine led the Nutrition for Dementia Prevention Working Group, a group of scientists who spent two...

Oregon had a 10.876 percent rise in new coronavirus cases in the week that ended on Sunday. The virus that causes COVID-19 has 10,153 new cases during the preceding week. According to a USA TODAY Network examination of Johns Hopkins University statistics, Oregon placed seventh among the states where the coronavirus was dispersing the quickest per person. With 721,538 cases recorded in the most recent week, there were 1.2 fewer coronavirus infections in the United States than the week before. Oregon has 1.27 percent of the nation's population and 1.51 percent of the cases during the last week. In the most recent week, there were more instances nationwide in 24 states than the week before. In the most recent week, Marion County recorded 946 cases and five fatalities. It had recorded 672 cases and one fatality a week earlier. There have been 738 fatalities and 75,074 cases documented throughout the epidemic. Here's another blog on What are 5 mood changes that indicates  Vitamin B1...