In a report that was recently published by the International Longevity Centre-UK, a clear description on functional foods was being provided. The report claims that functional foods complements a healthy diet and plays a fundamental role in enhancing the health of elders. The report reviews dietary recommendations for elders as well as investigates the role [...]
Continue reading...Monday, November 29, 2010
Comments Off
US Department of Health and Human Services publicly introduced the MyActivity Pyramid in 2008. The pyramid was developed by University of Missouri Extension Department of Nutritional Science. It provides visual guidelines on physical activities that can be incorporated into one’s life. The MyActivity Pyramid is a comprehensive representation on how adults can proceed with physical [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, November 18, 2010
Comments Off
A group of researchers from the University of Michigan has revealed that when a new found gene is suppressed it increases the life span of round worms. Investigators who are researching the aging process have understood for some time now that when calories are restricted in some animals they will live longer. However, the objective [...]
Continue reading...Monday, November 15, 2010
Comments Off
Dan Buettner has travelled around the globe to study centenarians from various, regions cultures and traditions. The all seem to have a passion for living a pure life. Their secret of longevity can help to inspire other people on how to be healthier and how to live longer. There are some inherited factors such as [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, November 9, 2010
Comments Off
Once again laboratory rodents are taking advantage of longevity studies and benefiting from the results. Clinical investigators placed aging mice on a reduced calorie eating regimen and over jut a four week time frame they turned around a number of the reactions displayed by the genes in the mice that were exhibited during ordinary age [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, November 3, 2010
Comments Off
The persons who are in need of age reversing technologies are usually those who have the capability to pay for the research, that is, the older generations. On the other hand, they are in fact the ones who least understand the various possibilities. It is the tech savvy and hipper younger generations who grasp inferences [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, November 2, 2010
Comments Off
We humans try many things in order to look younger, including many amalgams to keep our original hair color and our skin crease free. That is all fine and good but what can be done about those things less simple to maintain, like the wasting away of our muscle tissue as we advance in years? [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, October 21, 2010
Comments Off
When we exercise our bodies we can get easily caught up in the hundreds, perhaps thousands of different exercise regimens available that guarantee results. We definitely want a training program that will be effective and so why not incorporate a bit of scientific theory into your choice of physical training regimen? Science may sound like [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, October 6, 2010
Comments Off
In accordance to the results of a preliminary United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)-funded study that was carried out on laboratory mice, blueberries may help in fighting against atherosclerosis. Atherosclerosis is moreover referred to as the hardening of the arteries. The research offers the first direct proof that blueberries can assist in the prevention of [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, October 5, 2010
Comments Off
In America, more than 23 million children and adolescent are either obese or overweight. So, the risk to chronic diseases keeps on increasing. In the Journal of the American Dietetic Association, it was reported that diets amidst young American keeps on showing negative results. Jill Reedy, PhD, MPH, RD and Susan M. Krebs- Smith, PhD, [...]
Continue reading...
Tuesday, December 28, 2010
Comments Off