This service is by invitation only and may be held at a place of worship, a funeral home or a family home. Usually, selected relatives and a few close friends attend the funeral service. Often public visitation is held, condolences are sent, and the body is viewed.
Sept. 4, 2012 -- Blood sugar levels at the high end of what is considered normal may put the brain at risk, according to a new Australian study. Researchers in Canberra report a link between the shrinkage of two brain regions, the hippocampus and the amygdala, and normal blood sugar levels.
1 Sleeplessness may cause brain shrinkage. 2  A 2010 study linked chronic insomniacs to the loss in brain density, and researchers found, as Discovery News wrote, brain imaging has linked chronic insomnia to lower gray matter density in areas that regulate the brain's ability to make decisions and to rest.. A vegetable-heavy diet may cause brain shrinkage. 2  That's a simplistic way of saying a diet with a lack of the vitamin B12. 3  In a counter-intuitive finding in 2008, researchers found that the lack of a diet including the vitamin B12, found in meats and milk, isn't good for the brain.