HEALTH ISSUE: SHORT CUTS

SHORT CUTS: Eating walnuts every day keeps dementia away     Want to stave off dementia? All you need to do is to eat walnuts everyday. according to a new study, led by an Indian-origin researcher, Dr Abha Chauhan and his colleagues at New York State institute have carried out the study and found eating walnuts on a regular basis cankeep one's mental skills up, According to the researchers, vitamin E and flavonoids in walnuts actually help in destroying harmful free radical chemicals that cause dementia. 19th-century bones point to pet tortoise:      A University of Leicester archaeologist has discovered a bone belonging to a late 19th-century tortoise from Stafford Castle, Staffordshire, which is believed to be the earliest archacological evidence ofr a tortoise kept as a family pet. The Stafford Castle tortise bone was found amongst the skeletons of cats and dogs. in a contest that suggests it was kept as a pet, possibly by the family who were caretakers at the castle at the time.  Cholesterol tests must for kids, say docs:       Tens of thousands of kids may benefit from cholesterol-lowering medication, but no one would know because screening guidelines exclude too manychildren, US doctors said on Monday. In a report published in the journal Pediatrics, they call for screening of all children, expanding one set of current recommendations that target onlythose whose parents or grandparents have heart disease or high cholesterol.