The previous post talked about how high levels of phosphate in soda and junk food may increase the rate of aging. So if we are going to cut down on our soda consumption, what are we going to drink instead? How about tea? A headline on the BBC website is Tea ‘healthier’ drink than water. [...]
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Also tagged ageing, Aging, anti-ageing, anti-aging, antioxidant, black tea, bone, cardiovascular disease, Health, tea, water
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April 21, 2010 – 10:27 am
Here are a few random news items about a new test that is being developed that can more accurately predict the risk of a heart attack, how peanut allergy tests have a huge number of false positives, and how dancing can be an enjoyable way to improve balance and walking. A new test to determine [...]
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Posted in Aging, Body, Health, Heart
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Also tagged ageing, Aging, anti-ageing, anti-aging, balancing, clotting, dancing, gamma prime fibrinogen, peanut allergy, walking
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March 10, 2010 – 12:04 pm
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 [...]
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Posted in Diabetes, Health, Heart, Weight
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Also tagged adipose, age-related diseases, ageing, Aging, anti-ageing, anti-aging, belly fat, cardiovascular disease, Diabetes, fat, fat storage, insulin resistance, metabolic syndrome, obesity, pancreas
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February 22, 2010 – 12:41 pm
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 [...]
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Posted in Aging, Health
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Also tagged age-related diseases, ageing, Aging, anti-ageing, anti-aging, cardiovascular disease, Diabetes, telomere length, telomere shortening, type 2 diabetes, vitamin D
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February 10, 2010 – 10:58 am
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 contain [...]
February 5, 2010 – 11:56 am
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 do with [...]
January 25, 2010 – 9:12 am
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 some [...]
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Posted in Health, Heart
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Also tagged 3g salt, age-related diseases, atherosclerosis, Blood Pressure, cardiovascular disease, CHD, high blood pressure, MI, Roman, salt, sodium, stroke
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January 3, 2010 – 2:00 pm
Combined together those with pre-diabetes and diabetes have been calculated to total about 80 million people in the US. Of those with diabetes it is estimated over 6 million don’t know that they have diabetes. These are mind bogglingly huge numbers. These numbers mean that are millions people, with either untreated or poorly controlled diabetes [...]
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Posted in Body, Diabetes, Health, Skin, Wrinkles
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Also tagged advanced glycation end products, age-related diseases, ageing, AGEs, Aging, collagen, Diabetes, glycation, Skin, Wrinkles
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November 9, 2009 – 11:58 am
In addition to wanting to lower LDL, or bad, cholesterol it is of benefit to raise HDL, or good, cholesterol. As we age our cholesterol levels tend to change, and contribute to age-related diseases. The guidelines for HDL cholesterol are greater than 39 mg/dL in men and greater than 49 mg/dL. Lower levels are considered [...]
November 4, 2009 – 3:06 pm
Should we try to eliminate saturated fat from our diets? There has been a huge push to reduce the amount of saturated fat in our diets. The mantra “saturated fats – bad, unsaturated fats – good” is everywhere. However, is consuming some saturated fat bad for us? Probably not. Could it even be good for [...]
