Re: Article: Strawberries may boost astronaut performance

[John Jacobus <crispy_bird@YAHOO.COM>]

In addition to eating a pint of strawberries a day,

the astronauts can only be exposed to "a minute's

worth of artificially produced cosmic rays."  Let's

expose the animals to a hour's worth of cosmic rays. 

I am sure they are asking for funds to continue their

groundbreaking research.  



--- mark.hogue@SRS.GOV wrote:

> Source:

> http://www.nature.com/nsu/031110/031110-1.html

>  Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting,

> New Orleans, November 2003

> 

> 

> Strawberries may boost astronaut performance

> Frozen fruit protects rats' brains from harmful

> rays. 

> 10 November 2003 

> HELEN R. PILCHER 

> 

>  

> Strawberries: on the space menu since the 1980s. 

> © GettyImages 

>  

. . .

> 

> Rabin's team treated rats to an 8-week diet of 2%

> frozen strawberry, 98% 

> standard lab chow, then exposed them to a minute's

> worth of artificially 

> produced cosmic rays. In a motivation test a year

> on, these rodents beat 

> animals that had been fed a fruit-free diet. They

> worked twice as hard to 

> press a lever for a food reward.

> 

> . . .



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"One test result is worth one thousand expert opinions."

Wernher von Braun



-- John

John Jacobus, MS

Certified Health Physicist

e-mail:  crispy_bird@yahoo.com



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