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Wednesday, December 31, 2008 Growing Evidence Links Resveratrol to Extended Life Span By Laurie Barclay, MDResveratrol and Caloric Restriction To date, the most reliable, best-researched way to extend life span is through the practice of caloric restriction, which involves reducing calorie intake while simultaneously maintaining good nutritional status. In numerous studies, restricting calorie intake in laboratory animals has been shown to prolong their life span by as much as 60%. While scientists have not yet determined whether caloric restriction extends life span in humans, the preliminary evidence is very promising. > moreWednesday, December 31, 2008 Fill Your Grocery Cart with Foods That May Help Keep You Young Albuquerque Journal 12-30-08 Can you find a fountain of youth at the supermarket? Are the secrets to a long life hidden there among the toaster pastries and potato chips? Not exactly, but supermarket shelves do contain numerous foods associated with a reduced risk of cardiovascular disease, Alzheimer's disease and other afflictions of aging. You just have to know where to look. Canned goods Fresh fruit and vegetables are best, but canned goods offer convenience and good nutritional value. The processing of tomatoes actually increases the bioavailability of lycopene, an antioxidant that helps neutralize highly reactive and damaging free radicals in the body. > moreTuesday, December 30, 2008 How to handle holiday headaches: Whether they are from stress, allergies or hangovers, here's help to cure them. Tulsa World, Okla. 12-26-08 Dec. 26--Maybe it's holiday stress, allergy-aggravating weather or too much mulled wine --but headaches can be an unwelcome holiday visitor. If the usual over-the-counter painkillers aren't working on your headache, are there any other options? Martha Stalcup, a pharmacist and lifestyle consultant at Scott Robison's Compounding Pharmacy, 1560 E. 21st St., said the key to getting rid of headaches is figuring out the root cause. Often, headaches are caused by inflammation -- which is one reason anti-inflammatory drugs such as Advil and Aleve are used to treat them -- but the inflammation can be caused by irritated sinuses, imbalanced hormones, food intolerance or other factors. > moreMonday, December 29, 2008 Ars: Berry Compound Reduces Aging Effect M2 Communications 12-12-08 In a new study, aged laboratory animals that ate a diet rich in the berry and grape compound pterostilbene performed better than those in a group that did not eat the enriched diet, scientists with the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) have reported. Pterostilbene reversed measurable negative effects of aging on brain function and behavioral performance. Neuroscientist James Joseph, psychologist Barbara Shukitt-Hale and colleagues at the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University in Boston, Mass. > moreMonday, December 29, 2008 The November, 2008 issue of the journal Nutrition published the finding of Brazilian researchers of an association between greater calcium intake and lower body mass index in men and women aged 20 to 59.Researchers at the University of São Paulo in Brazil evaluated data from 1,459 participants in the Health Survey of the State of São Paolo, which collected health information from residents in four areas of the Brazilian state from 2001 to 2002. Calcium intake was calculated from the responses to participant questionnaires, which obtained information on food consumption, physical activity, height, and demographics. > moreMonday, December 29, 2008 Content Works 11-18-08 Nov 18, 2008 (Voice of America News/ContentWorks via COMTEX) -- DATELINE: Durham, North Carolina It's been said that music can soothe a savage breast, but perhaps it can also keep the heart inside that breast in tune. As Rose Hoban reports, some researchers have found that listening to enjoyable music can do your heart good. Medical researchers have learned a lot about what causes people to develop heart disease. Stress, diets rich in fatty foods, and lack of exercise are among the top factors that increase the risk for heart attack and stroke. But scientists don't know as much about what can improve heart health. > moreMonday, December 29, 2008 Heart helper: Inspired by studies, doctors prescribing higher doses of vitamin D Milwaukee Journal Sentinel 12-23-08 Dec. 22--It could be a couple of years before formal recommendations are established for taking higher doses of vitamin D as a way to help prevent or treat heart disease, but some doctors aren't waiting. This month, doctors at Aurora Sinai Medical Center in Milwaukee began giving a mega-dose of 100,000 international units of vitamin D to all patients with chest pains. After that, they are advised to take 2,000 IU a day, said John Whitcomb, an emergency room physician with the hospital. > moreThursday, December 11, 2008 Stress affects us in ways we seldom think about. Stress is a critical factor in formulating an effective and comprehensive daily supplement. Traditional multivitamin companies almost always have a stress formula but when you look at the label all they are selling is the replacement of vitamins and minerals. The notion being everyday vitamins and minerals are needed in stressful situations. That said, we use to think stress was the sort of emotional stress caused by a tragedy, overwork, or a strained relationship. Of course these are very stressful situations. Increasingly we are learning sometimes we are stressed and we are not even aware of the source. > moreThursday, December 11, 2008 The Top Ten Health Challenges in the Western World 1. Scientists arediscovering 300-500 toxins in human tissue that did not exist prior to 1947.Today we are faced with alarming rates of toxic exposure –both inside and outsideout homes. If you start reading labels in your home and you cannot pronouncethe words –chances are these chemicals are not healthy. Everything from yourlaser printer, to mothballs, to dry cleaning fluids, to glues, wallpapers,carpets, and countertops emit toxic gases. 2. Our water is full ofchemicals to help protect us from bacteria, but fluoride is a derivative ofaluminum waste, and we take hot baths in chlorine which emits chloroform gases–very dangerous. > moreTuesday, December 9, 2008 Agence France-Presse 12-05-08 Seniors may be getting old, but they still feel about 13 years younger than their actual age, according to a new study. Seniors involved in the six-year project, which assessed 516 men and women aged 70 and older, revealed that they felt on average 13 years younger than their chronological age, with women perceiving they were closer to their actual age than men. "People generally felt quite a bit younger than they actually were, and they also showed relatively high levels of satisfaction with aging over the time period studied," said Jacqui Smith, a psychologist at the University of Michigan who co-authored the study. > more |
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