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But they clearly demonstrated he was guilty of indecent assault and battery, after another nursing home worker, testified that he walked in on Figueroa and saw him near the victim's bed with his genitals exposed.

The suspect himself also told police shortly after the incident that he was getting the victim "ready for sex," but changed his mind and stopped.

What kind of a person gets a helpless 86-year-woman that he's supposed to be caring for "ready for sex?

" Prosecutors may not have been able to prove the rape conviction, but they convinced jurors that Figueroa assaulted the 86-year-old, and that in itself is a very serious matter.

People who care for elderly nursing-home residents have a special responsibility to treat them with the care and dignity they deserve.

Figueroa failed on both counts.

Figueroa is scheduled to be sentenced March 31.

We can only hope that the judge treats this conviction with the seriousness it deserves, and makes sure Figueroa spends a long time in prison so other people are safe.

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In fact, drinking more than 2 cups a day of green tea slashed odds of cognitive impairment in elderly Japanese men and women by more than half!

Researchers at Japan's Tohoku University studied 1003 subjects over age 70, comparing their green tea intake and mental sharpness, using a Mini-Mental State Examination, a well-accepted standardized test for measuring cognitive function.

At every level of cognitive impairment-from slight to severe-those who drank the most green were still less cognitively impaired than those who drank the least green tea.

Compared with Japanese who drank less than 3 cups a week, those who drank 4 to 6 cups of green tea a week (1 cup a day) had a 38% lower risk of cognitive impairment, and those who drank more than 2 cups a day had a 54% lower risk of cognitive impairment.

A Japanese cup of green tea is small-about 3.2 fluid ounces.

Green tea's main protection comes from EGCG, a powerful antioxidant that researchers say helps detoxify B-amyloid, a protein incriminated as a cause of Alzheimer's.

EGCG also removes (chelates) toxic iron from brain cells.

And brand new Israeli research finds that EGCG even reverses brain cell degeneration by spurring new growth, making it a potential treatment for Alzheimer's and Parkinson's.

Bottom Line: Green tea, particularly EGCG, appears to slow brain aging and cognitive deterioration, and may also help revive lost brain cell functioning.

(Sources: Kuriyama, S.

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