Goya (Bitter Melon) Goya, also known as Bitter Melon, is a vegetable commonly consumed in tropical countries. With a firm and bumpy outer surface, its flesh tastes like a cross between cucumber and under-ripened melon. While mainly consumed in tropical countries, Goya is a popular vegetable in Japan as well.
BUFFALO, N.Y. -- The mental impairment and problems with walking experienced by patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) are linked to damage in the brain's gray matter, with MRI findings suggesting the damage is due to toxic deposits of iron, researchers from the University at Buffalo have shown for the first time. Share:
grey matter is found in the outer layer of the brain, the cerebral cortex; where the most neuron cell bodies and where most of the nerve impulse are start, white matter are the fibers beneath the cortex and corpus callosum (fibers that connect the two halves of the cerebral cortex)