8 Fruits Keep you Young : Anti-aging Fruits
Anti-oxidants, the elements that our bodies use to fight free radicals or the agents that damage healthy cells, are also necessary as we age and are found in all anti-aging fruits and vegetables. These anti-oxidants help our body's to repair themselves from the inside out.
Anti-aging fruits should also contain high amounts of Vitamin D, which is important for healthy bones and teeth. Vitamin D is ...
Major Depression Often Follows Brain Injury
People who are hospitalized for a traumatic brain injury face an almost eight-fold higher risk of also suffering major depression.
That's the finding of a team led by Charles H. Bombardier, professor of rehabilitation medicine at the University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle and first author of a study published in the May 19 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Bombardier spoke ...
Quick Weight Loss May Be Best for Long-Term Success
When it comes to weight-loss patterns, the old adage proclaims that "slow and steady" wins the race, but recent research suggests otherwise.
A new study found that obese women who started out losing 1.5 pounds a week or more on average and kept it up lost more weight over time than women who lost more slowly. They also maintained the loss longer and were no more ...
Tips to Choose : Online Weight Loss Program
More and more people are turning to online programs to help them lose weight, maintain their weight loss, or to use the online community as a means of support. Here are a few things to consider to find the online weight loss program that is right for you.
Tip 1:
Write down your weight loss goals the time you feel you can commit to achieving them each ...
Nuts in your diet can cut cholesterol: study
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Going nuts in your diet can be good for your health, according to a study published Monday, which showed that eating nuts helps to lower blood cholesterol levels. People who ate an average of 67 grams (2.4 ounces) of nuts a day saw a 5.1 percent fall in total cholesterol concentration and a 7.4 percent ...
Cholesterol Diet
Every cell in your body contains cholesterol, and that is a good thing. In fact, the American Heart Association explains that cholesterol plays a key role in hormone production and the creation of cell membranes that are necessary to the health of your body. Cholesterol is a fatty substance, with a waxy texture that is fine in small numbers, but because cholesterol is sticky, too ...
Diabetes Symptoms
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Diabetes is a serious disease, but with the proper education and medical care, one can manage the situation and live a long life. Knowledge of early symptoms of diabetes can prepare you to deal with the disease. Following are some things to watch out for when determining if you are at risk or in the early stages of diabetes.
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Life Insurance Benefits.
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Life insurance is a type of policy that seeks to make financial provisions to beneficiaries upon the death of a sole provider. However, many people seek life insurance for a multiplicity of reasons. Most people will want to die with the notion that their family will be well taken care of economically. It could be used for the settlement ...
Gene scan shows man’s risk for heart attack, cancer
A California college professor who sequenced his own genome has had it analyzed -- and discovered he has a high risk of dropping dead of a sudden heart attack, as well as a high prostate cancer risk.
The analysis, published in the Lancet medical journal, illustrates the challenges facing doctors, patients and healthcare systems as such DNA maps become easier to get and as people seek ...
Olive oil good for health
The heart-healthy effects of the famous "Mediterranean diet" may have something to do with components of virgin olive oil that repress genes that advance inflammation, a new study reports.
"These findings strengthen the relationship between inflammation, obesity and diet and provide evidence at the most basic level of healthy effects derived from virgin olive oil use in humans," study leader Francisco Perez-Jimenez of the University of ...