Archive for October, 2009
Candy in Childhood, Violence in Adulthood?
British Study Suggests Violent Adults Were “Sweet” Children Like peanut butter and jelly, candy and Halloween just go together. Survey data shows that nearly 75 percent of Americans celebrating Halloween do it by handing out candy to trick-or-treaters; the average home spends $65 on candy for Halloween; the majority of the candy eaten in the [...]
Posted: October 26th, 2009 under Candy.
Tags: children and candy, violence and development, violence and health
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Coffee: The Liver’s Libation
National Cancer Institute Says Coffee Helps Hepatitis C Sufferers Thought your brain was the only thing perked up after your morning cup of joe? Well according to a new study published in the journal Hepatology, your liver likes it a whole lot, too. Researchers from the National Cancer Institute recruited over 760 volunteers with Hepatitis [...]
Posted: October 26th, 2009 under Coffee.
Tags: hepatitis c, hepatitis c and coffee, liver disease and coffee
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Exercise May Exorcise Radiation Damage
Exercise Improves Brain Function in Rats Treated with Radiation, Say Duke Researchers Ladies and gentlemen, as much as I’ve discussed exercise and its healing power, there’s yet another aspect to it that can’t go unmentioned: It may reverse the damage that results from radiation treatments. As has been documented here, I’m not crazy about traditional [...]
Posted: October 26th, 2009 under Exercise.
Tags: brain and exercise, brain tumor, exercise and blood flow, exercise and radiation therapy, exposure to radiation, irradiation, radiation, radiation effects, radiation treatment
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Get Rhythm!
The Impact of Music on Exercise Performance There are necessities to every workout. Willpower? Check. Quality sneakers? Absolutely. Shirt and shorts? Most definitely. There’s one more thing, though, that I’m convinced is a necessity: Music. Now, this may sound absurd, the notion that you need music to exercise. But when I say “need,” I mean [...]
Posted: October 26th, 2009 under Exercise.
Tags: benefits of music and exercise, Exercise, exercise and music, music and exercise performance, music and exercising
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10 Fatloss Questions You Should Be Asking (Part 1)
[ Note: This article was written by fitness and nutrition author Jon Benson. Jon is a good friend of mine so I have his permission to share it with you. I have personally reviewed Every Other Day Diet in addition to Jon's other products and I give them my highest recommendation. I'm an affiliate of [...]
Posted: October 21st, 2009 under Fitness.
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4 Fatloss Tricks No One Tells You About
[ Note: This article was written by fitness and nutrition author Jon Benson. Jon is a good friend of mine so I have his permission to share it with you. I have personally reviewed Every Other Day Diet in addition to Jon's other products and I give them my highest recommendation. I'm an affiliate of [...]
Posted: October 20th, 2009 under Fitness.
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Caution: Retirees at Work
Retirement-Age Workers Live Longer than Retired Contemporaries With social security funds lagging, the economy at a standstill, and retirees’ pension funds going up in smoke, millions of senior citizens are doing what they never thought they’d be doing when they were younger: Still working. Working well into our sixties sure doesn’t sound like a whole [...]
Posted: October 19th, 2009 under healthy retirement.
Tags: bridge employment, bridge work retirement, good health in retirement, health in retirement, healthy retirement, part-time work after retirement, retirees, retirees returning to work, retirement, work after retirement
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Omega-Man: The Heart’s Hero
Omega-3 fatty acids are the object of the heart’s affection. They’re the heart’s knight in shining armor, for they are at the ready to reduce and prevent long-term complications, like heart disease and heart attack, while easing the sting of short-term frustrations, like chest pain. Every year, millions of people head to their local hospital [...]
Posted: October 19th, 2009 under Fatty Acids.
Tags: acute coronary syndrome, chest pains, fish oil omega-3 benefits, omega-3 fatty acids
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High Fives for Green Tea
Researchers Say Five Cups of Green Tea Reduces Stress Levels If you’re at all fascinated by numbers and whether or not they’re lucky or unlucky, the number five is right up there with the number seven in signaling prosperity. Let me explain what I mean… Earlier this year, I wrote about a study out of [...]
Posted: October 19th, 2009 under Green Tea.
Tags: egcg, green tea and stress, green tea benefits, polyphenol egcg
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Pedaling Away to Migraine Relief
Indoor Cycling May Decrease Migraine Pain, Episodes Describing what a migraine feels like is sort of like describing what salt tastes like; it’s next to impossible without having experienced it first. I’ve never had a migraine, and as difficult as it is for me to fully appreciate just how painful it is, I’ve watched people [...]
Posted: October 11th, 2009 under Migraine.
Tags: indoor cycling, migraine headache, migraine relief, migraine treatment, oxygen intake
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