Category Archives: Health

Increasing Fat Storage Help Protect Against Metabolic Syndrome?

This was a new way of thinking about fat in the body, for me. A review suggests that increasing fat storage helps protect against metabolic syndrome. Most researchers and physicians will tell you that obesity, itself, is a major part of the cause of metabolic syndrome.
What is metabolic syndrome?
Metabolic syndrome, also called syndrome [...]

Does getting a good night’s sleep impact on aging?

Research suggests that if we are not getting sufficient sleep, it may be increase the decline of both neurological and muscular functions and reduce our ability to handle oxidative stress. The net result of this is speeding the rate of many aging processes.
Most animals, including humans, have an internal clock. This is called [...]

More Evidence For Benefits Of Vitamin D

Vitamin D has suddenly become the most popular vitamin in articles about nutrition and health. It is taking over from vitamin C.
With recent horror for the damage that sun can do, plus our increasingly indoor lives, many people are vitamin D deficient.
Vitamin D plays a major role in our immune systems, cancer, heart [...]

Long life cocktail

One thing that most of us want is a long healthy life. We want to age slowly, be healthy and keep our mental faculties, so we can have a long life with a good quality of life. One panacea would be a long life cocktail.
Unfortunately I am not referring to an alcoholic cocktail. [...]

Are You Programmed To Age Faster?

Now there is evidence that some people may age faster than others, due to their genes.
Recently a post talked about how exercise may keep you younger. This post described research that suggested that those who exercise may have healthier cells. The post described how the ends of chromosomes (the strands of DNA that [...]

Why Is Belly Fat Bad?

We all know that having lots of belly fat is bad. We are told that it increases the risk of cardiovascular disease, diabetes and a range of other health problems. But why is belly fat bad?
There are number of reasons but I will explain one of the major ones. This has to [...]

How Exercise Helps Cardiovascular Disease

We are frequently told that exercise is good for us. It reduces the risk of a range of diseases, such as heart disease and stroke.
What is often not clear is why it is good for us. How exactly does exercise help?
Here is one way that researchers have found that exercise helps with cardiovascular [...]

More Evidence Too Much Salt Is Bad

If you have high blood pressure, you have probably been told to cut down on your salt intake. Many, but not all, who have high blood pressure, have salt-sensitive hypertension.
With the increased consumption of processed foods and eating out, the amount of salt in the diet has increased dramatically. Take a look at [...]

High Levels Of Iron And Copper May Be Aging

For many years it was thought that high iron levels were a good thing. Remember the huge amount of advertising for iron supplements particularly Geritol (see old ad below).
More recently it has been realized that high levels of iron and some other minerals, such as copper, may be bad for us, particularly as we [...]

Anti-Aging: How Far To Go?

How far would you go to slow or stop aging?
There is a recent (very longwinded) article in the NYT that discusses some people, all male, who are willing to go quite far.
These middle-aged men are doing more than just the exercising and eating right. They are injecting themselves hormones and growth factors such as [...]

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