http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2000/03/12/chewing-saves-brain.aspxA good pair of dentures may fend off dementia. That's the message from Japanese researchers, who say that chewing helps prevent memory loss as we grow old. New memories are briefly stored in the hippocampus, a brain area critical for learning. But asenCommunityServer 2008.5 SP1 (Build: 31106.3070)