A type of fat found in processed food has been linked to memory loss in working-age men.

A type of fat found in processed food has been linked to memory loss in working-age men.

Trans-fatty acids, or trans-fats, used to improve taste, texture and shelf-life,

are known to be associated with an increased risk of heart disease

and there is pressure on food manufacturers around the world to remove them.

The new research found that consuming larger amounts of trans-fats
resulted in poorer memory in men aged 45 and younger.

It showed that men whose diets contained the highest levels of the fats

were likely to recall 12 fewer words in a memory test than those who avoided them.

US lead researcher Dr Beatrice Golomb, from the University of California at San Diego, said:

"Trans-fats were most strongly linked to worse memory in men during their high productivity years.

"Trans-fat consumption has previously shown adverse associations to behaviour

and mood - other pillars of brain function.

However, to our knowledge a relation to memory or cognition had not been shown."

She added: "As I tell patients, while trans-fats increase the shelf life of foods,

they reduce the shelf life of people."

The team analysed data from 1,018 men and women

who were asked to complete a dietary survey and take part in word recall memory tests.

On average, men aged 45 and younger were able to recall 86 words in the tests.

But for each additional gram of trans-fat they consumed each day,

their performance reduced by a statistical 0.76 words.

This translated to young men being able to recall around 12 fewer words

if their trans-fat consumption matched the highest levels seen in the study, said the scientists.

The findings are published in the online journal Public Library of Science ONE.

Although the trend was only significant for men, this may only have been due to the small number

of women participants in the same age group, they pointed out.

The association was not seen in older populations,

possibly because it was masked by the effects of age on memory.

An announcement from US regulators yesterday means that most trans-fats

will be removed from American foods within three years.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said partially hydrogenated oils (PHOs) –

the main source of trans-fats - are not "generally recognised as safe".

The move is likely to prevent thousands of fatal heart attacks each year, according to experts.

In Denmark, almost all trans-fats have been banned since 2003

but in the UK their removal depends on food manufacturers signing up to a voluntary scheme.

http://www.talktalk.co.uk/news/uk/article/trans-fats-linked-to-memory-loss/172579/

Dr. Michael Roizen, MD , Internal Medicine, answered

You can figure out if a food contains trans fat by doing a little detective work.

On the information label, find the total fat content. Then, subtract the saturated fat

and the mono and polyunsaturated fats. This leaves the trans fat.

So, for example, if chocolate chip cookies have 12 grams of fat per serving

and the label lists 4 grams of saturated fat, the cookies also have 8 grams of artery-aging trans fat.

Another way to tell is to look at the list of ingredients.

A food label must list the ingredients in order of quantity, from most to least.

If hydrogenated or partially hydrogenated oils are listed early on the list and

before polyunsaturated or monounsaturated oils, you know the product contains lots of trans fat.

If the label lists unsaturated or monounsaturated oils, olive oil, or canola oil first,

the fats are probably okay.

Some experts contend that trans fats make up 25 to 60 percent of all fats contained

in processed food, and 15 to 30 percent of the total intake of dietary fat.

Others disagree, saying the numbers are much lower.

Find out more about this book:

https://www.sharecare.com/health/trans-fats/food-contains-trans-fat

M'reen. I read that (if, for arguments sake)
a mouse given 99 calories a day would die but a mouse given 100 calories a day would live.
With an appropriate number of calories being made up of fat.
The group given natural fat lived an expected life and health span.
But the group give trans fat had put on weight and gained a 'gut' at death.
Food for thought? :)

Trans Fats are Bad for You 

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You can TCR software and engineering manuals for spontaneously recall – or pass that exam.

I can Turbo Charge Read a novel 6-7 times faster and remember what I’ve read.

I can TCR an instructional/academic book around 20 times faster and remember what I’ve read.

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To quote the Dr Seuss himself, “The more that you read, the more things you will know.

The more that you learn; the more places you'll go.”

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You can TCR music, poetry or self development material for internal knowing.

I can Turbo Charge Read a novel 6-7 times faster and remember what I’ve read.

I can TCR an instructional/academic book around 20 times faster and remember what I’ve read.

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To quote the Dr Seuss himself, “The more that you read, the more things you will know.

The more that you learn; the more places you'll go.”

Read an informational book 20 times faster.

E for experience - it's there if you look.

Read an informational book 20 times faster.

M'reen Hunt

You say that a person can read an informational book in their area of familiarity 20 times faster.

What does that statement mean exactly when other speed reading programmes 

quote reading at a phenomenal words per minute speeds with a high level of comprehension?

Let’s work this backwards.

Phenomenal reading speeds.

The claims of  25,000 to 36,000 and 1 million words per minute when speed reading in certain ways only mean that that number of words are passing directly into the innermind

as a result of by-passing the eyes and conscious awareness.

This means that that information is in your innermind and is not, at this time,

available to your working conscious awareness.

Or in plain English, you haven’t got the faintest idea what you’ve just read – rather like each word reading a passage and a few minutes later not having the faintest idea what you’ve just read.

In order to bring that information into your working conscious awareness and long term memory 

and recall you have to complete a couple more steps of the programme

and they don’t include this time in their claims.

Please see my blog article WPM Smoke and Mirrors

20 times faster

This means that if it normally takes you 10 hours to each-word, down every line read

say a 300 page book with or without good memory and long term recall as is usual for you.

Then with TCR you can TCR that book and discuss at a general knowledge level in half an hour

with the bonus of good memory of the material read and long term recall.

Area of familiarity.

Let me give you some examples.

My standard example is that I couldn’t read a book on Rugby

as I don’t understand the positions, plays, and jargon or the background information.

My impression is that a group of rather large men run around a field {pitch?}

and attempt to squash a curiously shaped ball by piling on top of each other.

In order to read such a book with comprehension, which leads to confidence and memory;

I would have to take a side step and understand the language

and then understand that language in context.

However, in my area of familiarity someone lent me a little book that dealt with stress relief.

Because of my background knowledge, understanding and experience,

for me, that book represented several full sized books of information.

There are some wonderful children’s history books: the Horrible Histories books.

The particular book I TCR is called Dangerous Days in the Roman Empire.

I TCR the whole book of 256 pages and then accessed the first 6 pages

bringing that information into my conscious working awareness

and this simply means I can use that information in conversation,

this being regarded as the first level of recall of the material TCR.

Therefore I can easily tell you the horrible story of brutality.

The second level/depth of knowledge was to put names to the characters involved

and as these were outside of my familiarity I had to actively learn these names.

I was not interested in spending the time to recall the modern medical

and emotional effects of this brutality.

But as I’ve laid down the information correctly into my memory system,

if ever I want that information I know exactly which book to go to and where in the book

to find the required information. Likewise I was not interested in actively remembering

other periods in history when we have excelled ourselves in torturing others.

Similarly, a student TCR a book on coastal erosion and while he easily understood the content

he did not magically remember all the detail of the facts and figures, the graphs and percentages.

However had he read a book in his own area of familiarity remembering such details was second nature as he’s spent his professional life with facts and figures, graphs and percentages.

So in conclusion to TCR outside of your area of familiarity is going to add a little to your overall time.

Informational Book.

A book generally refers to a book of 2 -300 pages either printed on paper or on an electronic screen.

Informational can be substituted by textbook, software or engineering manual, academic material, non-fiction, music, cook book or any sports book etc.

In fact it means anything that is not a novel or is contained in a number of pages such as a report, journal, newspaper, emails etc.

Just to round off. To TCR a novel I spend two minutes preparing my body, brain,

mind and energy systems before TCR the whole novel directly into my innermind.

This takes around six minutes in total. 

Then I leave it there to ‘cook’ for 10 minutes before fast reading each word.

I can fast read a novel 6-7 times faster

than the  each-word, down each line reading style I was taught at school.

I find it more enjoyable to fast read about 6 times faster than 7 times faster 

as I leave those sorts of speeds for the exciting bits.

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To quote the Dr Seuss himself, “The more that you read, the more things you will know.

The more that you learn; the more places you'll go.”

With an investment of 3 breaths and 1 thought most people will find that they can read faster and remember more of what they have read.

With an investment of 3 breaths and 1 thought

most people will find that they can read faster and remember more of what they have read.

In order to offer my reading tip there needs to be a little preparation.

Firstly I have ensured that the 3 font’s used take up the same amount of space on the line.

I have taken the material from, The Back of Beyond, a book written in the 1930’s

by S. L. Bensusan and printed by Blandford Press Ltd and illustrated by Joan Rickarby.

I chose these passages because the language is slightly different 

and the subject familiar to most readers.

Please use the stopwatch function on your mobile/cell phone or whatever

and time how long it takes you to read the passages.

This is not a race; as when race-reading you may glaze over the words and not actually ‘read.’

The point is to observe your reading process

and the emotions you experience when reading these passages.

Now please read this first passage before reading further.

SPRING 37 –Frost in April.

Round me are the fruit farmers, no sons of the soil, but for the most part men with money who have taken to the work because it is a comparatively new industry in a well-adapted area. Fruit seems to thrive here when conditions are good. But three times in as many years the best lade hopes of those who spare no pains and no outlay in the cultivation of their land have suffered partial wreck. A fine promising spring has justified every optimistic estimate and then the fruit farmers have recalled the Master’s familiar lines: “To-day he put forth The tender leaves of hope; to-morrow blossoms – The third day comes a frost, a killing frost And – nips the root.” I have a neighbour who is a fruit farmer in the truest sense of the term; he has studied his job and he works on his smallholding from early morning to late afternoon doing all that may be done. It is impossible not to admire his industry, even though I believe that modern orcharding which is based upon the free use of poisonous materials is wrong and must in the long run be harmful to Mother Earth whose reprisals will prove hard to bear. But I went past this neighbour’s fields on a Saturday afternoon and he was quite content. His land was clean and in excellent heart, the long rows of Cox’s Orange were heavy in bud, the strawberries showed promise of abundant fruit, the cherries were like a shower of snow with the sun on it. “We’re three or four weeks earlier than last year,” he said. “Now we have to hope that we shan’t have late frosts, or that if they come they won’t be severe.” The week-end mornings and afternoons were radiant, the nights clear and with an ever deepening cold. On a Sunday night the thermometer registered twelve degrees of frost. Monday morning showed the strawberry plants on my own land bright and shining and the black currant clusters touched with a crimson stain. The apple blossom looked to be un-touched, but if you opened one there was a deep discolouration within the stigma. On Tuesday I passed my neighbour busy with his cultivator and asked him, a little nervously, how he had fared. “Like everyone else round here,” he replied. “More than half the crop gone.” And then, because he is that sort of man, he began to talk of the plight of the big local growers who would be so hard put to find work for their staff and of the village women who earn good money through the summer months picking each crop. I had been told of gales in Worcestershire and frosts in Cambridge, each doing serious damage to blossoming fruit, but trouble afar can never be so real to you as it is in your own and neighbour’s fields e may have sympathy, but we lack imagination. 491 words.

Having completed this timed passage, please note how easy it was

to consistently leave the last word on the line and find the first word on the line below.

If you had to go back over words in order to understand what had been read

–or remember going back on words if this is a common occurrence for you.

This is your mechanical response to reading justified line 

with the Word document font: Tempus Sans ITC at size 10.5

Make a note of how long did it took you to read the passage,

your emotional response to the material

and later try and recount what you can remember.

This font is Calibri (body) at size 11

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Now to read the following passage

but this time before you time your reading.

Set The Intention that you’ll remember what you read in a relaxed manner.

Before you start reading take three breaths - in this way.

First deep breath in and when you breathe out say the word: Relax

Second breath in and when you breathe out softly say the word: Soften

Third gentle breath in and when you breathe out whisper the word: Flow

Now read>>>>>>>

Our own fruit has paid a heavy penalty

but we grow only for the house and rely in part upon glass.

There again we have a south slope with a wood behind it and there is some protection here.

Just a few growers can put up a smoke barrage against frost

but the cost is said to work out nearly twenty pounds an acre over a term of years,

a notable addition to the cost of production,

and the result of burning crude oil that invades neighbouring houses and gardens

is so un-pleasant that in Kent some growers have been restrained by law;

the Public Health Act of 1936 would appear to offer a much-needed protection.

Apparently late frosts lay an indifferent hand upon England,

but I think the grip must needs be heaviest on our East coast.

To sense the trouble, think of the work done since the last crop was gathered,

the pruning and dressing, the feeding of the soil, ploughing and cleaning,

all the preparations to market the crop, the dovetailed arrangements for labour,

the rising tide of work,  the feverish paces of June, July, and August when the outside help pours in.

All this life and activity, all this energy and legitimate aspiration

quenched between the dusk of one perfect day and the dawning of another.

It looks as though Nature has borrowed her mood

from one of the old-time destroyers of humanity or the latter-day reincarnations.

“Ask your wife to come across with you this afternoon when you stop work

and we will talk of something else over the tea table for a change,” I suggested to my neighbour.

“A good idea,” he said. “We’ll come.”

And I asked myself very doubtfully if I could hope to be so brave in like circumstances.

The money loss doesn’t matter so much, we have all lost our money in our time

and not always through our own fault; it is the uncertainty that strikes us down

and forces us to ask cui bono? What profit shall a man have of his labour under the sun?

Perhaps he gets it out of his greater courage to endure, out of his ability to say

“My head is bloody but unbowed.”

I know that when I talked of the trouble to my neighbour over beyond the wood

I was talking to a plucky man.

On the farm, troubles come gradually if at all.

Should the train spoil the hay it will swell the roots,

should drought parch the roots, the sun will ripen the corn.

If pig prices are down, sheep may be a good market,

there is always time for recovery and readjustment,

or so it seems to me when I was farming.

But where trouble comes like a bolt from the blue, rapid as an epileptic stroke,

or a motor-car accident, only courage, and fine courage at that, avails.

One can but hope that when our own testing time comes,

we may remember and emulate.

497 words in Arial font, size 10 exactly.

Having completed this passage, please note how easy it was:

To consistently leave the last word on the line and find the first word on the line below.

As far as possible each line contained just one complete point aiding understanding and retention.

This makes the lines shorter and so is less of a strain on the eyes.

The Arial font is reported to be the easiest font for dyslexic people to read.

Is this a consideration for your business and educational publications?   Tempus Sans 10.5

Is this a consideration for your business and educational publications?      Calibi size 11

Is this a consideration for your business and educational publications?      Arial  size10

The differences are subtle but important, rather like an eye exam chart.

Unfortunately Blogspot alters the fonts and so if you wish 

you could copy and past onto a Word document and compare for yourself.

Did you have to go back over words in order to understand what had been read?

I did go back on an unfamiliar speech pattern.

No? This is because you were in a different state of mind

having more alpha brain waves mixed in with your beta waves.

This is a more focussed way of reading.

Later try and recount what you can remember.

Remember you Set The Intention that you’ll remember what you read in a relaxed manner.

This instructs your mind what to do with the material read

and because you have more alpha waves mixed with your busy,  busy chattering beta waves

your mind is freer from extraneous distractions.

Make a note of how long did it took you to read the passage, your emotional response.

With this second passage, I agree that you are more familiar with the content and style of writing

but did it ‘feel’ more comfortable to read?

Next try finding the first words in a new chapter in a book with a solid block of print

and timing 2 or 3 minutes and read this in your usual style.

When your time is up mark the last word read with a soft pencil.

Turn the book upside down and with a cocktail stick count each word

and mark on a separate piece of paper each 100 count.

Please do not estimate to save time!

Then find the first words of another chapter and

Set The Intention that you’ll remember what you read in a relaxed manner.

Then take your progressively relaxing three breaths

and read for the same amount of time.

Most people will find that they can read and remember more of what they have read.

Now, please take the time to encourage others by recounting your experience of this tip

preferably on my new FaceBook group: Advanced Reading Skills.

Introduction to Turbo Charged Reading YouTube

A practical overview of Turbo Charged Reading YouTube
How to choose a book. A Turbo Charged Reading YouTube
Emotions when Turbo Charged Reading YouTube

Advanced Reading Skills Perhaps you’d like to join my FaceBook group ?

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Perhaps you’d like to check out my sister blogs:

www.innermindworking.blogspot.com         gives many ways for you to work with the stresses of life

www.ourinnerminds.blogspot.com               which takes advantage of the experience and expertise of others.

www.happyartaccidents.blogspot.com         just for fun.

To quote the Dr Seuss himself, “The more that you read, the more things you will know.

The more that you learn; the more places you'll go.”

Picture books – pictures without words and Turbo Charged Reading?

My 3rd birthday / Christmas present. M'reen

Picture books – pictures without words and Turbo Charged Reading? M’reen

First let me explain that teaching children to read is not my subject area though I did volunteer

to help bring young readers up to their age level when I lived in Colorado Springs USA.

I probably didn’t ‘read’ picture books with my three children or take full advantage of them

in my Nursery School for which I created the curriculum.

But we can all learn and pass on that learning skill.

Picture books – words without pictures and Turbo Charged Reading?

It’s just another example of how TCR is a natural process

and that you already have the skills you need to be successful.

As pointed out elsewhere, comprehension and confidence and bypassing your conscious mind

are the key components to TCR, learning, memory and long term recall.

~ Bypassing your conscious mind simply involves some physical and energy skills

being used in conjunction with skills you already use but of which you may not be aware.

~ Confidence involves an effortless step by step programme that takes into account

as many different reading needs as is possible

with the added benefit of working with the gremlins between your ears.

~ Comprehension is a necessary skill and like spelling and writing is a different skill to reading.

My granddaughter was in her last year of Junior School before they decided that she

had a comprehension problem. However her spelling list did include words I’ve never uttered

in my life and so had difficulty in putting into a sentence that was understandable to her.

And since she would probably never meet those words again in decades, if ever,

they could not possibly be remembered.

By the way have you checked that your child can put those spelling list words into a sentence?

When in Spain, where a lot of children speak 2-4 languages I was checking the reading homework

of a child of around 9 years old who was reading in English and could speak English easily.

For whatever reason I decided to check her comprehension and drew a blank

also when looking through her homework book no one had bothered to check

if she actually understood what she was reading!

Picture books are the first step in reading words.

When reading in English you (usually) get used to ‘reading’ from the front page to the back page

and from left to right along the line while going down each line on the page as you read.

In TCR you can TCR read in this way; however with my first 'Charge' through a book

I prefer to turn the pages from the last page to the first with the book upside down

before Charging through it in the traditional front to back format. For me this has the advantage that interesting words and phrases don’t pop up into my conscious awareness.

Also you allow both pages to simultaneously bypass your eyes and conscious awareness

and go straight into your innermind to be processed by your newly growing neurons

to satisfy your reason for reading this printed or electronic material.

With picture books you can pre-’read’ the story by describing in your own words the tale the pictures

are describing and in this way you are introducing words and language patterns, sequence, emotions, the weather  and expectations etc. before you start with the written word.  

First you are 'reading’ the picture yourself as the expert (author)

before extending the child concious awareness of the story the pictures might be telling.
Then when the child reads the printed words he/she has an inner knowledge of the story 
and so can read with far more confidence.

Turbo Charged Reading is exactly the same.

You choose a book following a sequence that helps to ensure that you don’t waste your time

by reading only what is relevant from newspaper articles, soft-wear manuals
or books from a few pages long to the size of a small library.

After which you read the ‘pictures’ and this means you ordinary read the front and back covers,

the inside flaps, the table of contents and glance through the pages before making the decision:

do you want to bin this material, put it in your resource pile, only read certain sections

or read the full text now or in planned sessions?

You now have a level of knowledge of the book and this is your first level of understanding

which becomes your first level of memory and so long tern recall.

You have developed a relationship with the text claiming it for your own as you choose to read

what is appropriate to you and in the order that is most beneficial for your purpose of reading.

Introduction to Turbo Charged Reading YouTube

A practical overview of Turbo Charged Reading YouTube
How to choose a book. A Turbo Charged Reading YouTube
Emotions when Turbo Charged Reading YouTube

Advanced Reading Skills Perhaps you’d like to join my FaceBook group ?

www.facebook.com/mreenhunt

www.pinterest.com/mreenhunt

Perhaps you’d like to check out my sister blogs:

www.innermindworking.blogspot.com         gives many ways for you to work with the stresses of life

www.ourinnerminds.blogspot.com               which takes advantage of the experience and expertise of others.

www.happyartaccidents.blogspot.com         just for fun.

To quote the Dr Seuss himself, “The more that you read, the more things you will know.

The more that you learn; the more places you'll go.”