I recently turned Fifty years old. Although I have always been good at watching what I eat, I also know it is so much harder to lose even just a few pounds, as you get older. Things from a physical health standpoint begin to go south as well. My vision began to blur to the [...]
Continue reading...25. September 2009
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The Japanese have the lowest rate of obesity of any country in the industrialized world, three percent as opposed to thirty two percent in America. This information comes from the International Obesity Taskforce. Most think the Japanese are so healthy and live nice long lives because of their diets. Medical experts claim the Japanese eat [...]
Continue reading...24. September 2009
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A few days ago, the world’s oldest living man celebrated his 113th birthday with a cake at his retirement home in Great Falls, Montana. Walter Breuning was born on September 21st, 1896, in Melrose Minnesota. Walter had the title of “World’s Oldest” passed on to him when Henry Allingham of the UK, passed away on [...]
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When inflammation runs rampant in our systems it can cause all sorts of medical problems for us. Inflammation is an immune response to injury and occurs around wounds as the puffy redness while healing takes place or when an organ is traumatized and swells up. We have an immune system to keep dangerous pathogens at [...]
Continue reading...24. September 2009
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Immortality is something humans have strived for since he began walking upright. Probably since man passed his first kidney stone and realized he was just flesh and blood did he dream of ways to live longer and without the probability of pain and mortality. In modern times, humankind has enjoyed a spate of scientific discovery [...]
Continue reading...23. September 2009
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Every morning when we wake up we decide how we are going to feel that day. As we get older, we have aches and pains, stress at work, perhaps some strife in the family; many factors determine our outlook from the moment we open our eyes. If we decide that we are simply going to [...]
Continue reading...23. September 2009
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Recent Research has revealed fascinating evidence of how a diet loaded with antioxidants from artichokes, blueberries, and pecans has the capability to contain the primary reason for age related blindness in industrialized countries. Study scientists from Brigham Young University and Weill Medical College of Cornell University found a connection that involves two functions in the [...]
Continue reading...23. September 2009
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Who among us does not enjoy being kissed! It is one of the most natural things we humans can partake in, a nice long kiss. So you are probably thinking how can kissing be good for me? I kiss and feel the same as I always do. This may be true but a little deeper [...]
Continue reading...22. September 2009
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Obesity in Older People Raises The Risk Of Cancer - The majority of the people in the fifty five and over age group seem to be ignorant [purposely?] of how to decrease the risk they carry to cancer, according to a investigation out of Great Britain. When analyzing 2000 individuals it was discovered that these [...]
Continue reading...22. September 2009
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There seems to be a new trend toward attempting to regain our lost youth. People, specifically baby boomers or those wary of getting older, are doing more to try and reverse the effects of aging and yet some just seem to give up or not bother even getting started. Many folks are struggling in their [...]
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25. September 2009
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