<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/e2143f8b-c296-4467-b93b-3490acd6fe86/44B28AE4-59E8-4032-9F04-2B30BA5AD58B/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17371-us-grandparents-smarter-than-uk-counterparts.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=health" href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17371-us-grandparents-smarter-than-uk-counterparts.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=health" style="font-size: 11px;">www.newscientist.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17371-us-grandparents-smarter-than-uk-counterparts.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=health"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.newscientist.com/img/EB14105F-B052-4C39-B86D-D655CF239E4C" alt="Older Americans retain better memory faculties than their UK counterparts. 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The findings suggest that factors such as education, hypertension, and <A href="http://www.newscientist.com/topic/drugs-alcohol" alt="alcohol" omd="zodJump('http://widgets.zibb.com/images/_jump.gif?tag=InfusionJS&url=http:%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com%2Ftopic%2Fdrugs-alcohol&gsid=alcohol&entitytypeid=kw&lid=http://www.newscientist.com/topic/drugs-alcohol&title=alcohol&intref=infusion&variantName=alcohol&zodid=96')" class="infusionLink">alcohol</A> use might make the difference.</p> <P class="infuse">Previous studies have compared physical health, finding British seniors to have lower prevalence of nearly every chronic disease like diabetes or <A href="http://www.newscientist.com/topic/cancer" alt="cancer" omd="zodJump('http://widgets.zibb.com/images/_jump.gif?tag=InfusionJS&url=http:%2F%2Fwww.newscientist.com%2Ftopic%2Fcancer&gsid=cancer&entitytypeid=kw&lid=http://www.newscientist.com/topic/cancer&title=cancer&intref=infusion&variantName=cancer&zodid=96')" class="infusionLink">cancer</A>. This new study of 8299 older Americans and 5276 older British found that Americans scored better on a certain cognitive challenge that measures immediate and delayed recall abilities.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17371-us-grandparents-smarter-than-uk-counterparts.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=health"><P class="infuse">As part of the studies, <A href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn9968-top-10-steps-to-a-better-brain.html">seniors were given a list of 10 nouns</A>, such as hotel, river, tree, skin, gold, village, baby, and table.</p> <P class="infuse">They were then immediately asked to recall as many of the items as they could. 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