More evidence that spicing up broccoli boosts its cancer-fighting power

More evidence that spicing up broccoli boosts its cancer-fighting power: Teaming fresh broccoli with a spicy food that contains the enzyme myrosinase significantly enhances each food's individual cancer-fighting power and ensures that absorption takes place in the upper part of the digestive system where you'll get the maximum health benefit, suggests a new University of Illinois study.

Omega-3 Fatty Acids Lower Risk of Death by 85% | Live in the Now | Natural Health News | Natural Health Resources

Omega-3 Fatty Acids Lower Risk of Death by 85% | Live in the Now | Natural Health News | Natural Health Resources: In addition to supernutrients such as resveratrol, curcumin and vitamin D optimization, researchers publishing in Clinical Cardiology and the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition and provide documented evidence that beneficial omega-3 fatty acids from dietary sources and supplementation slash the overall risk of an early death. The long-chain fats DHA and EPA elicit a profound effect on the heart and brain to ameliorate chronic diseases that bring an early demise to millions of unsuspecting individuals each year.

Do Vegetarians Live Longer? - Life Extension

Do Vegetarians Live Longer? - Life Extension: We reviewed the published scientific literature and uncovered some surprising data relating to diet and longevity. As one would expect, most studies show that those who consume lots of red meat have higher disease rates.

Mental Clarity Health | Improve Your Memory

Mental Clarity Health | Improve Your Memory | Healthy Answers | Natural Health News | | Healthy Answers: Getting older doesn’t have to be fraught with anxiety of forgetting everything and everyone you know. Stay away from neurotoxins, eat a healthy diet full of brain-memory preserving nutrition, make use of the brain-boosting supplements available, exercise and keep challenging yourself to do and learn new things.

Michael's Supplementary Regimen - Fall 2009 - Regimens - LONGECITY

The State of My Pills, Fall 2009 - Regimens - LONGECITY: Unlike the shaky-to-begin-with-and-now-disproven resveratrol hype, there is a quite solid body of epidemiological evidence of an association between a couple of glasses of wine a day and lower risk of a range of adverse outcomes, including total mortality and dementia. The epidemiology clearly indicates a U-shaped dose-response curve for alcohol consumption and heart disease, with the best outcomes associated with 1-3 drinks/d, but only wine (not beer or spirits) lowers total mortality and dementia.

The 8 Most Nutrient Dense Foods on Earth | Energetic Health

The 8 Most Nutrient Dense Foods on Earth | Energetic Health: Despite the alluring appeal of Oreos, Mountain Dew or McAnything, processed foods provide little nutrition and a whole lot of risks. But when it comes to the good stuff—what are the best foods to put into our bodies? While experts all agree we need a variety of foods for a healthy diet, do you know which are the healthiest of the bunch? The answers may surprise and delight you.

Health-promoting properties of common herbs

Health-promoting properties of common herbs: A variety of herbs and herbal extracts contain different phytochemicals with biological activity that can provide therapeutic effects. Several herbs can help to reduce high blood cholesterol concentrations, provide some protection against cancer, and stimulate the immune system. Furthermore, a diet in which culinary herbs are used generously to flavor food provides a variety of active phytochemicals that promote health and protect against chronic diseases.

Calorie Restriction Appears Better Than Exercise At Slowing Primary Aging

Calorie Restriction Appears Better Than Exercise At Slowing Primary Aging: Previous research on mice and rats has shown that both calorie restriction and endurance exercise protect them against many chronic diseases including obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease and some types of cancer. However, the research has shown that only CR increases the animals' maximum lifespan by up to 50 percent. These animal studies suggest that leanness is a key factor in the prevention of age-associated disease, but reducing caloric intake is needed to slow down aging.

Foods that lower cholesterol - Cholesterol-reducing foods include fruits & nuts

Foods that lower cholesterol - Cholesterol-reducing foods include fruits & nuts: Take a few minutes to look at this page and see the fruits, vegetables, nuts and other foods that have been classified by researchers as cholesterol busters.

LE Magazine, February 2000 - Report: Vitamin K

LE Magazine, February 2000 - Report: Vitamin K: By keeping calcium bone where it belongs, vitamin K may help prevent heart disease, stroke, osteoporosis, Alzheimer's disease and more. Researchers are just now focusing on its potential roles in the pancreas and brain. Vitamin K is exciting because it seems to act like a hormone, but shows no toxicity.

Blueberries May Help Reduce Belly Fat, Diabetes Risk

Blueberries May Help Reduce Belly Fat, Diabetes Risk: The new research, presented April 19 at the Experimental Biology convention in New Orleans, gives tantalizing clues to the potential of blueberries in reducing risk factors for cardiovascular disease and metabolic syndrome. The effect is thought to be due to the high level of phytochemicals – naturally occurring antioxidants – that blueberries contain.

WHFoods: Oranges

WHFoods: Oranges: Arguably, the most important flavanone in oranges, herperidin has been shown to lower high blood pressure as well as cholesterol in animal studies, and to have strong anti-inflammatory properties. Importantly, most of this phytonutrient is found in the peel and inner white pulp of the orange, rather than in its liquid orange center, so this beneficial compound is too often removed by the processing of oranges into juice.

Chlorella – A Potent Super Food | Health Tips

Chlorella – A Potent Super Food | Health Tips: Chlorella is a single cell fresh water green microalgae that is loaded with nutrients. It contains more nucleic acids (RNA/DNA) than any other food which gives it a lot of energy-producing potential. It is a great supplement to boost any diet lacking in green vegetables (great for children) and it has a wide variety of useful nutritional applications including the support of natural detoxification, digestive health, immune function, inflammation reduction, antioxidant function, estrogen balance, cholesterol metabolism, and circulation.

Effects of Folic Acid Supplementation on Hearing in Older Adults

Effects of Folic Acid Supplementation on Hearing in Older Adults: Folic acid supplementation slowed the decline in hearing of the speech frequencies associated with aging in a population from a country without folic acid fortification of food.

Milk--the promoter of chronic Western diseases. [Med Hypotheses. 2009] - PubMed - NCBI

Milk--the promoter of chronic Western diseases. [Med Hypotheses. 2009] - PubMed - NCBI: Common chronic diseases of Western societies, such as coronary heart disease, diabetes mellitus, cancer, hypertension, obesity, dementia, and allergic diseases are significantly influenced by dietary habits.

Study finds routine periodic fasting is good for your health, and your heart

Study finds routine periodic fasting is good for your health, and your heart: Today, research cardiologists at the Intermountain Medical Center Heart Institute are reporting that fasting not only lowers one's risk of coronary artery disease and diabetes, but also causes significant changes in a person's blood cholesterol levels. Both diabetes and elevated cholesterol are known risk factors for coronary heart disease.

Individualized piano instruction enhances executive functioning and working memory in older adults.

Individualized piano instruction enhances ... [Aging Ment Health. 2007] - PubMed - NCBI: The experimental group significantly improved performance on the Trail Making Test and Digit Symbol measures as compared to healthy controls. Results of this study suggest that IPI may serve as an effective cognitive intervention for age-related cognitive decline.

Efficacy of prolonged release melatonin in insomnia patients aged 55-80 years

Efficacy of prolonged release melatonin in... [Curr Med Res Opin. 2007] - PubMed - NCBI: PR-melatonin results in significant and clinically meaningful improvements in sleep quality, morning alertness, sleep onset latency and quality of life in primary insomnia patients aged 55 years and over.

New Method Shows Mushrooms A Top Source For One Antioxidant

New Method Shows Mushrooms A Top Source For One Antioxidant: The researchers found that white button mushrooms, the most commonly consumed kind in the U.S., have about 12 times more of the antioxidant than wheat germ and 4 times more than chicken liver, the previous top-rated ergothioneine sources based on available data

WHFoods: Sea vegetables

WHFoods: Sea vegetables: Why would anyone want to eat sea vegetables? Because they offer one of the broadest ranges of minerals of any food, containing virtually all the minerals found in the ocean - and not surprisingly, many of same minerals found in human blood.

"Is obesity linked to aging?": adipose tissue and the role of telomeres.

"Is obesity linked to aging?": adipose tissue... [Ageing Res Rev. 2012] - PubMed - NCBI: Obesity is a condition in which excess or abnormal fat accumulation may present with adverse effects on health and decreased life expectancy. Increased body weight and adipose tissue accumulation amplifies the risk of developing various age-related diseases, such as cardiovascular disease, Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus, musculoskeletal disorders, respiratory diseases and certain types of cancer.

Brief, intense exercise benefits the heart

Brief, intense exercise benefits the heart: The research compared individuals who completed interval training using 30-second "all-out" sprints three days a week to a group who completed between 40 and 60 minutes of moderate-intensity cycling five days a week. It found that six weeks of intense sprint interval exercise training improves the structure and function of arteries as much as traditional and longer endurance exercise with larger time commitment.

Dietary Sugar and Mental Illness: A Surprising Link | Psychology Today

Dietary Sugar and Mental Illness: A Surprising Link | Psychology Today: Noted British psychiatric researcher Malcolm Peet has conducted a provocative cross-cultural analysis of the relationship between diet and mental illness. His primary finding may surprise you: a strong link between high sugar consumption and the risk of both depression and schizophrenia.

Omega-3s May Help Protect the Eyes and Kidneys Along with the Heart - Nutrition Horizon

Omega-3s May Help Protect the Eyes and Kidneys Along with the Heart - Nutrition Horizon: Start 2010 right: consume more seafood omega-3 fatty acids. Improvements or lower risks in age-related macular degeneration (AMD), chronic kidney disease and heart health have been reported in people with higher intakes of fatty fish or the omega-3s they contain.

Broccoli May Help Boost Aging Immune System

Broccoli May Help Boost Aging Immune System: Eat your broccoli! That's the advice from UCLA researchers who have found that a chemical in broccoli and other cruciferous vegetables may hold a key to restoring the body's immunity, which declines as we age.

Have No Fear, MitoQ10 Is Here

Have No Fear, MitoQ10 Is Here: Graham et al6 has demonstrated that CoQ10 supplementation represents a novel adjunct to conventional therapeutic modalities and may become an essential component for disease prevention to reduce the incidences of cardiovascular disease.

Mercury-Free Dentistry Campaign | ToxicTeeth.org

Mercury-Free Dentistry Campaign | ToxicTeeth.org: Amalgam emits mercury vapor even after it is implanted into the body. This mercury is bioaccumulative, and it crosses the placenta to accumulate in fetuses as well. Dental amalgam's mercury is a known health risk, especially for children, fetuses, nursing infants, and people with impaired kidney function especially.

Egg, red meat, and poultry intake and risk of lethal prostate cancer

Egg, red meat, and poultry intake an... [Cancer Prev Res (Phila). 2011] - PubMed - NCBI: Red and processed meat may increase risk of advanced prostate cancer. Data on postdiagnostic diet and prostate cancer are sparse, but postdiagnostic intake of poultry with skin and eggs may increase risk of disease progression.