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Diet & Exercise Contribute To Longevity but More Is Needed: A Change In Lifestyle
Maybe it is time to start biking, as nowadays, childhood obesity is becoming a rising epidemic, which is even expected to negatively affect future life expectancy. In U.S almost 30 percent of the children are obese or overweight with disease such as diabetes and high risk of heart diseases. According to Michelle Obama’s organization, the [...]
Continue reading...Your Child Might Be Able To Live To 150 Years
Thursday, February 16, 2012
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If we go back 162 years, to year 1850, human lifespan was only 43 years but now in 2012, average lifespan is 80 years. The question is how old can humans really become? A book entitled “100 Plus: How the Coming Age of Longevity Will Change Everything, From Careers and Relationships to Family and Faith,” [...]
Continue reading...New Research suggests That Alcohol Can Increase Lifespan ‘At Least for Worms’
Saturday, February 11, 2012
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A very recent research has provided unexpected findings suggesting that: - Tiny amount of alcohol has a positive effect on health - Scientists reveals the most unexpected finding on longevity - Alcohol can enhance health & longevity - Does this apply for Humans? Scientists have found that small amounts of alcohol can actually double the [...]
Continue reading...Want to become a Sharp Grandmother? – The Right Genes Make the Difference
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
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It is a known fact that the intelligence of a person in inherited in most cases. However, determining if an individual with turn to be a clever grandpa or grandma will depend on the environment as well as genes, states a recent study. Studies conducted in the past that dealt with the genetics of cleverness [...]
Continue reading...Is Longevity Research Ethical? Yes it Is
Sunday, February 5, 2012
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Nicholas Agar, who is a bio-ethicist from New Zealand, says that longevity institutes are inherently unethical if they are using healthy poor people as subjects for testing. For instance, it is really easy to entice people suffering from aging diseases into experimental medical trials. People suffering from Alzheimer’s disease are well aware that their illness [...]
Continue reading...Vitamin D – A Strong Tool To Combat Aging in Eyes
Thursday, February 2, 2012
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Recently Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council financed a group of researchers that discovered that the impact of aging in mouse eyes could be reduced with the consumption of Vitamin D. They also found out the Vitamin D proved to be very beneficial in the improvement of sight in older mice. These researches are hoping [...]
Continue reading...Test to Predict Your Chance of Reaching Your 100th Birthday
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
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Want to know whether you will celebrate your 100th birthday? Recent tests can now predict. In accordance to scientists, there now exist a test that can genetically predict if a person will be able to reach his 100th birthday. Researchers of Yale University and Boston University Schools of Public Health and Medicine, Boston Medical Center, [...]
Continue reading...Will Human Live Forever In The Future?
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
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Woody Allen, an American Director said, “I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it by not dying.” In this world that we live in death is considered to be inevitable. It is a spin-off and mindset that must be forgotten. Yet, what would really happen if people had an [...]
Continue reading...Reports Show That American’s Life Expectancy Has Prolonged
Saturday, January 21, 2012
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According to a recent report, American is currently living a longer life than previously. Their lifespan has increased from an average of 78.6 years during the year 2009 while as upon 2010, Americans live to 78.7 years. At the same time the death rate of Americans has experienced a drop of 0.5% in one single [...]
Continue reading...Paleo diet – One Way To Avoid Diseases
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
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People have abandoned the Paleo diet for mass produced food and a sedentary lifestyle. The Paleo diet is also called the caveman diet or Paleolithic diet. In the Hunter-gatherers society, some 2 million years ago, humans consumed natural foods; fish, meat, vegetables, fruits, nuts and eggs. It was a diet low in carbohydrates and high [...]
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Tuesday, February 21, 2012
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