Now & then, medical science has a wonderful way of confirming what ordinary people have always taken for granted. The International Gerontological Congress in St. Louis gave that kind of back-pat last week: people do get more fatheaded. In the aged, reported Dr. Oskar Vogt of Neustadt-Schwarzwald, Germany, most types of nerve cells in the brain show cavities filling up with fat. The cells themselves fight the invasion, resist most successfully when the individual keeps active. Concluded Dr. Vogt: "We have observed no case in which overwork was found to have accelerated the aging of the nerve cells."
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