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Are Hypochondriacs Really Ill or are They Simply Sick in Their Head?

Friday, February 18, 2011

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Are Hypochondriacs Really Ill or are They Simply Sick in Their Head?

Hypochondriacs are known to have a fixation regarding diseases, their symptoms and information regarding these illnesses. They usually have an exaggerated need to self-monitor themselves. This is known as body vigilance. People who suffer from this will regularly check their temperature, blood pressure and pulse a number of times per day. They keep on scanning [...]

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Astonishing Signs You Might Become A Centenarian

Wednesday, February 16, 2011

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Astonishing Signs You Might Become A Centenarian

Have Been Known To Wear A Lampshade At Parties  - Extroverted People who enjoy being the life of the party have a fifty percent less chance of acquiring dementia. Investigators suspect that is due to their brains contain reduced amounts of cortisol [the stress hormone]. It has been proven that over secretion of the hormone [...]

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The Falsehoods Of Enhanced Life Expectancy

Saturday, February 12, 2011

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The Falsehoods Of Enhanced Life Expectancy

Based upon Life span figures, humans are surviving for a longer period than any other moment in time. The fact is that in less than one hundred years we have added an additional thirty or so years to our combined life expectancy. We are literally manufacturing old age and it is claimed that this is [...]

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Is It A Serious Health Issue — Or Are You Just Getting Old?

Friday, February 11, 2011

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Is It A Serious Health Issue — Or Are You Just Getting Old?

Aching eyes and popping knees might well be signaling that you are ill or they may just as easily be maddening signs that you are getting older. Physicians will tell us we should listen to our body however, when we hear and stare down these abnormal noises, pains and aches might they be something more [...]

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Could Alzheimer’s Disease Be An Odd Sort Of Cancer Of The Brain?

Tuesday, February 8, 2011

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Could Alzheimer’s Disease Be An Odd Sort Of Cancer Of The Brain?

Medical investigator Peter Davies started his research into Alzheimer’s disease decades ago in the seventies prior to the true serious nature of the illness actually being evident. When humanity reaches the year 2030 about seven and a half million U.S. citizens will be afflicted with the terrible neurodegenerative illness. Alzheimer’s is now costing America about [...]

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Sinaporean Nurses Trained To Take Care of an Aging Population

Saturday, January 22, 2011

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Sinaporean Nurses Trained To Take Care of an Aging Population

The Workforce Development Agency (WDA) has taken the decision to collaborate with the Singapore General Hospital (SGH) so as to bring an improvement in the quality of nursing care that is offered to the aging population of the country. It appears that the medical care providers will be trained to enhance the quality of care [...]

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Dementia & Brain Aging Can Be Prevented With the Colour: Purple

Tuesday, January 18, 2011

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Dementia & Brain Aging Can Be Prevented With the Colour: Purple

Our natural world is slowly unveiling clues on pathways behind dreadful diseases such as Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, Multiple Sclerosis and other disease that affect the brain as we age. Scientists suggest that poor lifestyle and dietary choices are responsible for most individual health hazards. Brain aging can apparently be prevented to a certain degree by increasing [...]

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Protein Sirt1 Promotes Longevity and prevents Prostate Cancer

Monday, January 17, 2011

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Protein Sirt1 Promotes Longevity and prevents Prostate Cancer

Research claims that the longevity protein SIRTI can prevent the progress of prostate cancer as well as prostatic intraepithelial neoplasia (PIN). The findings derived from the research are likely going to lead to new cancer prevention drugs. Such drugs wouldn’t only protect an individual against prostate cancer; the medicine would equally boost longevity. The study [...]

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Is Cancer a Man-Made Disease?

Saturday, January 1, 2011

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Is Cancer a Man-Made Disease?

At Kurzweil Al a recent article claim, that cancer is a modern disease. It is a man-made illness caused by environmental factors like diets and pollution. However, in literature cancer can be traced back into the ancient Greece and Egypt. The University of Manchester’s KNH Centre for Biomedical Egyptology published an article in Nature that [...]

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Ways to Increase Your Odds On Living Longer

Sunday, December 26, 2010

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Ways to Increase Your Odds On Living Longer

Six ways to increase your odds of living longer: 1. Consume Healthy Food Erasmus University in Rotterdam says that consuming almonds, vegetables, garlic, wine and dark chocolate increases life expectancy on average by 6.6 years. However, the less motivating news is that Loma Linda University in California claims that eating meat once per week can [...]

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