As a child I lived for some years in Sweden, and then went to school in England.  In both countries, black and red currants were common ingredients both in juices,and jams.  In fact, red currant jelly was a frequent accompaniment to game, used much as cranberry jelly is used here.

My foster Mother in Sweden used to put up rows and rows of bottles of "saft" , strong condensed juice, from her garden every year.

I was so surprised to discover them nowhere to be found in the USA!  All I could find out was some suggestion that they brought disease to trees - which also surprised me, since both Sweden and England are liberally supplied with trees of all kinds.

New research linking ingredients in black currants and blackberries to protection from Alzheimer's may bring these delicious and prolific , not to mention tasty, treats to prominence.

In the UK, they are telling it like it is:  junk food and the wrong fats can have a stultifying impact on the brain, its development and its functioning.

"Food can have an immediate and lasting effect on mental health and behaviour because of the way it affects the structure and function of the brain," Sustain's report says. Its chairman, Tim Lang, said: "Mental health has been completely neglected by those working on food policy. If we don't address it and change the way we farm and fish, we may lose the means to prevent much diet-related ill health."

Read the full report here.

Read the Vitamin Lady's article on a Healthy Dietary here.

I should say "guinea-pig" rather than rat, because that's what we are.

What could possibly account for the acquiescence in this massive experiment of the authorities designated to protect us ? Particularly in the face of sufficient doubt to at least bring into question the overall safety of GM foods?

Will these recent alarming studies make a difference?  Or is the genie alreadyout of the bottle?