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Herbal GLOSSARYNutriceutical and Multi-Vitamins Ingredients in Biotrex Vitamins Supplements Beta Carotene an anti-aging vitamin, is a powerful antioxidant said to decelerate the aging process. Your body converts Beta Carotene into Vitamin A, one of the fat-soluble vitamins essential for vision, growth, cell division, reproduction and immunity. Biotin (Vitamin H) is necessary for both metabolism and growth in humans, particularly with reference to production of fatty acids, antibodies, digestive enzymes, and in Niacin (Vitamin B-3) metabolism. Helps the body maintain healthy skin. Folic Acid (Vitamin M) is one of the water-soluble vitamins important in red blood cell formation, protein metabolism, growth and cell division. Folic Acid has been shown to work together with Vitamin B-6 and Vitamin B-12 to reduce blood levels of homocysteine, an amino acid that builds and maintains tissues. Elevated homocysteine levels can increase your risk of heart attack, stroke or loss of circulation in your hands and feet. It`s also very important in pregnancy for the developing fetus. Vitamin B1 (Thiamine), combines with phosphorus to form Thiamin Pyrophosphate necessary for the metabolism of protein, carbohydrate, and fat. It is essential for growth, normal appetite, digestion, and healthy nerves. Vitamin B1 may prevent, correct or help aging and memory loss. Vitamin B2 (Riboflavin) is required by the body to use oxygen, and the metabolism of amino acids, fatty acids, and carbohydrates. Vitamin B2 is further needed to activate Vitamin B6. It helps to create Niacin and assists the adrenal gland. It is most beneficial to the skin, hair and nails and is used in Anti-Aging Skin Care Vitamins. Vitamin B3 (Niacin) is required for cell respiration and the release of energy and metabolism of carbohydrates, fats and proteins. It`s also needed for circulation and healthy skin. It has been used as a memory-enhancer. People report more mental alertness when this vitamin is incorporated into their diet. Kaavya Syndrome The accused Harvard plagiarist doesn`t have a photographic memory. No one does.Kaavya Viswanathan has an excuse. In this morning`s New York Times, the author of How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life explained how she "unintentionally and unconsciously" plagiarized upward of 29 passages from the books of another young-adult novelist, Megan McCafferty. Viswanathan said she has a photographic memory. "I never take notes." This seems like as good an opportunity as any to clear up the greatest enduring myth about human memory. Lots of people claim to have a photographic memory, but nobody actually does. Nobody. Well, maybe one person. In 1970, a Harvard vision scientist named Charles Stromeyer III published a landmark paper in Nature about a Harvard student named Elizabeth, who could perform an astonishing feat. Stromeyer showed Elizabeth`s right eye a pattern of 10,000 random dots, and a day lat er, he showed her left eye another dot pattern. She mentally fused the two images to form a random-dot stereogram and then saw a three-dimensional image floating above the surface. Elizabeth seemed to offer the first conclusive proof that photographic memory is possible. But then in a soap-opera twist, Stromeyer married her, and she was never tested again. In 1979, a researcher named John Merritt published the results of a photographic memory test he had placed in magazines and newspapers around the country. Merritt hoped someone might come forward with abilities similar to Elizabeth`s, and he figures that roughly 1 million people tried their hand at the test. Of that number, 30 wrote in with the right answer, and he visited 15 of them at their homes. However, with the scientist looking over their shoulders, not one of them could pull off Elizabeth`s trick.* There are so many unlikely circums tances surrounding the Elizabeth case???the marriage between subject and scientist, the lack of further testing, the inability to find anyone else with her abilities???that some psychologists have concluded that there`s something fishy about Stromeyer`s findings. He denies it. "We don`t have any doubt about our data," he told me recently. Still, his one-woman study, he says, "is not strong evidence for other people having photographic memory." That`s not to say there aren`t people with extraordinarily good memories???there are. They just can`t take mental snapshots and recall them with perfect fidelity. Kim Peek*, the 53-year-old savant who was the basis for Dustin Hoffman`s character in Rain Man, is said to have memorized every page of the 9,000-plus books he has read at 8 to 12 seconds per page (each eye reads its own page independently), though that claim has never been rigorously tested. Another savant, Project index
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