Archive for April, 2010
An Appetite for Alzheimer’s Avoidance
Researchers Say Diet Influences Alzheimer’s Risk One fact that I’ve hammered over my readers’ heads over the years is the prevalence of heart disease. It remains the number one cause of death for Americans, but believe it or not, between the years 2000 and 2006, there’s been an 11 percent drop in heart disease related [...]
Posted: April 18th, 2010 under Alzheimer's Disease, Mediterranean Diet.
Tags: alzheimer's prevention, prevent alzheimer's, preventing alzheimer's
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Let Them Eat Wheat
Another Reason to Opt for Wheat Over White When we were young and our folks asked us what bread we wanted our peanut butter and jelly on—white or wheat—our answer depended upon our mood at the time. Did we want the white, which had a more bland taste but soaked up the jelly and peanut [...]
Posted: April 18th, 2010 under Bread, Heart Disease.
Tags: wheat bread, white bread, whole wheat bread
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Green Tea for Weight Loss
Green Tea Expands its Health Promoting Repertoire From improving arthritis symptoms to preventing heart disease, heightening eye health to discouraging Alzheimer’s disease development, green tea is the libation of choice for health aficionados. Yet as multifaceted a drink green tea is, could encouraging weight loss be added to its repertoire? German researchers sure think so. [...]
Posted: April 15th, 2010 under Weight Loss.
Tags: good green tea for weight loss, Green Tea, green tea benefits, green tea for weight loss
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Alcohol in Adolescence: A Cancerous Combination?
Study: Underage Drinking Increases Benign Breast Disease, Breast Cancer Risk When we go to get something checked and the results come back benign, that’s usually a positive prognosis. But if you get a benign prognosis and you’re a teenaged girl that drinks alcohol, a “benign” prognosis may be a bad prognosis. According to a recent [...]
Posted: April 15th, 2010 under Alcohol, Breast Cancer.
Tags: breast cancer cause, breast cancer causes, causes of breast cancer, fibrocystic breast disease
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How Exercise Can Awaken Your Creative Genius Within
Many people look at exercise as a requirement.  They know they are supposed to exercise, but they don’t necessarily enjoy it.  As a result, many dieters find that they are forcing themselves to exercise.  On the other hand, often people who aren’t trying to lose weight skip exercising altogether.  As you know, everyone should exercise [...]
Posted: April 12th, 2010 under Creativity, Exercise.
Tags: benefits of exercise, cortisol, Creativity, Exercise, neurons
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Your Heart Truly Loves Chocolate!
A new study indicates that eating chocolate each day can be good for your heart. Â According to this study from the German Institute of Human Nutrition in Nuthetal, Germany, eating small amounts of chocolate can reduce your risk of a stroke or heart attack by 40%. To obtain their results, German scientists followed 20,000 people [...]
Posted: April 8th, 2010 under chocolate, Heart Health.
Tags: Benefits of chocolate, cacao, fighting stress, flavonols, lower blood pressure, lower risk of stroke
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Diet and Exercise Can Override the Genetic Disposition towards Obesity
A new European study whose results are published in the April edition of Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine states that exercising just one hour per day can help teenagers to override the effects of the “fatso” gene. There is no doubt that the obesity gene can make people gain weight.  One gene called the [...]
Posted: April 8th, 2010 under Exercise, Obesity.
Tags: benefits of exercise, fatso gene, FTO gene, Obesity
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Magnesium for Memory
Make It Magnesium for Healthy Brain Function Late last year I predicted that 2010 would be magnesium’s year. And with the latest study on magnesium, my prediction is bearing fruit. True, magnesium hasn’t dominated the health headlines this year like, say, vitamin D has in terms of frequency. But in terms of import, magnesium’s time [...]
Posted: April 6th, 2010 under Brain Health, Magnesium, Minerals.
Tags: Magnesium, magnesium benefits, magnesium sources, magnesium supplements
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Vitamin K Delivers Kick to Cancer Risk
Vitamin K Sources Have Cancer Preventive Properties All the rage these days in the health world is the importance of getting a daily dose of vitamin D in your diet, whether it’s through the foods you fix or the sun you soak. As a result, other vitamins have been given short shrift. Well what better [...]
Posted: April 6th, 2010 under Cancer.
Tags: k2 vitamin, vitamin k2, vitamine k2
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