When was the last time you heard the phrase – you are what you eat? After reading this text you may want to post it in neon lights on your refrigerator. I am not suggesting that one day you will mysteriously awaken looking like a linguini noodle. However, we all need to pay closer attention [...]
Continue reading...26. July 2010
A vital step towards extended and healthy longevity is taking responsibility for your fitness and health. If you have not done so yet, it is time to change that. Failure to do so will mean a life that is wracked by illness and disease and a future that is not very bright. We all must [...]
Continue reading...23. July 2010
So many of us become concerned about our weight as we get older and this is a good thing – for the most part. We need to understand though that there is no way to do this quickly as achieving weight loss, optimal health and increased longevity takes patience. There are many fad diets available [...]
Continue reading...13. July 2010
One way of defining longevity is the amount of years a person lives as established from physiological inheritance or one’s genes with environmental factors thrown in for good measure. Two kinds of longevity exist and they are known as maximum longevity and average longevity. Average longevity is normally recognized as average life expectancy; this referring [...]
Continue reading...6. July 2010
There are many medical and health related myths circulating, some for many years now, and it is time those myths were corrected. In part one we discussed how important it would be to have a standardized method of controlling health data – an information bank of sorts that we could access for accurate information when it [...]
Continue reading...2. July 2010
It was only four centuries ago that man believed that the sun actually circled about the earth. And it was just in the late 1800’s that medical practitioners stopped the inhumane procedure of bloodletting which at one time was considered to be the one thing that could cure nearly anything. It makes a person happy [...]
Continue reading...23. June 2010
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It is hard to believe but there are actually some individuals out there who never get sick. Oh, maybe a sneeze now and then, a slight temperature even. But these folks rarely feel the same type of misery as the rest of us when they do “come down with something” for a day – maybe [...]
Continue reading...22. June 2010
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The spirit of optimism is expanding widely in our age of unreason. This is bringing change in practices, ideologies, action and a more universal attitude towards science and technology. Apartheid, communist societies and slavery are a few examples of obsolete social, economic and political systems. They are being left behind with all its sorrows and [...]
Continue reading...21. June 2010
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There is a new term circulating the longevity community and it is known as accelerated aging. This has to do with your way of life, your lifestyle choices, your state of mind; general well being and what values you live by. It is clear that when you reach the mandatory age of retirement at sixty [...]
Continue reading...19. June 2010
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In accordance to the 16 June 2010 issue of ScienceDaily, a study conducted by the University of Maryland has discovered that crayfish are able to make amazingly complex, cost-benefit calculations, thus opening the door to a novel field of study that may assist in unveiling the cellular brain activity that is involved in human decision [...]
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27. July 2010
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