Unsung Superfoods: Healthful Foods You Should Incorporate Into Your Diet (And How to Enjoy Them)

Unsung Superfoods: Healthful Foods You Should Incorporate Into Your Diet (And How to Enjoy Them) - Life Extension Daily News: Sea vegetables are rich in vitamins, minerals and trace elements. The kelp family (kombu, wakame and arame) is an excellent source of iodine and has about four times the iron of beef. Arame has more than 10 times the calcium as milk. Nori, the seaweed wrapped around sushi rolls, contains protein, calcium, iron, potassium and more vitamin A than carrots.

Vitamin K: The Missing Nutrient

Vitamin K: The Missing Nutrient: The researchers collected data on the vitamin K intakes of the subjects between 1990 and 1993 and measured the extent of heart disease in each subject, who had died from it and how this related to vitamin K2 intake and arterial calcification. They found that calcification of the arteries was the best predictor of heart disease. Those in the highest third of vitamin K2 intakes were 52 percent less likely to develop severe calcification of the arteries, 41 percent less likely to develop heart disease, and 57 percent less likely to die from it.

Compound in Celery, Peppers Reduces Age-Related Memory Deficits

Compound in Celery, Peppers Reduces Age-Related Memory Deficits - Nutrition Horizon: A diet rich in the plant compound luteolin reduces age-related inflammation in the brain and related memory deficits by directly inhibiting the release of inflammatory molecules in the brain, researchers report.

WHFoods: Blueberries

WHFoods: Blueberries: Blueberries are not only popular, but also repeatedly ranked in the U.S. diet as having one of the highest antioxidant capacities among all fruits, vegetables, spices and seasonings. Antioxidants are essential to optimizing health by helping to combat the free radicals that can damage cellular structures as well as DNA.

Chlorella – A Potent Super Food

Chlorella – A Potent Super Food | Health Tips: Chlorella is an effective natural source of nutrition with many useful applications to help keep you healthy. It can be used to shore up a diet lacking in vegetables, reduce inflammation, and offset more specific problems such as excessive toxin exposure – especially to metals. It helps boost your antioxidant status, and so is synergistic with many other antioxidants you may take. Chlorella is one more great nutrient to support cardiovascular health and immunity.

Silica: health and beauty from nature

Silica is an essential mineral required by the human body, when supplied, this mineral does many things to keep us healthy:
Improves cell metabolism and stimulates cell formation.
Inhibits the ageing process in tissues.
Supplements tissue silica that rapidly decreases with age.
Strengthens weak connective tissue and improves its structure and function.
Increases the elasticity and firmness of blood vessels, making them less likely to develop atherosclerosis. (When silica rejuvenates connective tissue, atherosclerotic swelling vanishes.)
Promotes anti-inflammatory, anti-infecting reactions.
Stimulates the immune system to fight off disease-causing invaders -- bacteria, viruses, and toxins.

Attenuating effect of chlorella supplementation on oxidative stress

Attenuating effect of chlorella su... [Biosci Biotechnol Biochem. 2003] - PubMed - NCBI: The NFkappaB nuclear binding activities of peritoneal macrophages and liver were significantly lower in the 5% chlorella groups (p<0.05). These results suggest that chlorella supplementation may attenuate oxidative stress by reducing reactive oxygen production and increasing antioxidative processes, thus suppressing inflammatory mediator activation in peritoneal macrophages and liver.

obesity is bad for your brain

More obesity blues - Life Extension Daily News: They found that obese people had 8 percent less brain tissue than people with normal weight, while overweight people had 4 percent less tissue.

vitamin B-12 deficiency

The Good News is Your Terminal Disease Was a Misdiagnosis- The Bad News is You're Going to Die From it; Dr. Jeffery Stuart and Sally Pacholok R.N. Speak Out on Hidden Health Epidemic - Life Extension Daily News: The preferred way to take an oral vitamin B-12 supplement, Pacholok says, is by sublingual or micro-lingual absorption, where the vitamin dissolves under the tongue and directly enters the bloodstream. Some patients, however, may still require B-12 injections.

Higher levels of DHA correlate with improved cognitive function in middle aged men and women

Higher levels of DHA correlate with improved cognitive function in middle aged men and women - Life Extension Update: The April 2010 issue of the Journal of Nutrition reported the discovery by researchers at the University of Pittsburgh of an association between higher levels of the omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acid docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) and improved cognitive performance in middle-aged adults. Docosahexaenoic acid, along with eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA), is found in oily fish (and algae), which has been associated with numerous benefits when included as part of a healthy diet.

DHEA, CoQ10, Testosterone, Hormones: Anti-Aging Supplements

DHEA, CoQ10, Testosterone, Hormones: Anti-Aging Supplements - Life Extension: As the Life Extension Foundation surpasses its twenty-fifth year, the scientific community, the government, and even the news media are slowly recognizing that our concept of extending life is in fact technically feasible. This change in perception represents an enormous transformation in how humans view their role in the universe. Although none of the therapies in this section have been proven to slow aging, there is suggestive scientific evidence that they significantly suppress damaging free radical and inflammatory reactions that are linked to underlying aging processes.

Antioxidants in pecans may contribute to heart health and disease prevention

Antioxidants in pecans may contribute to heart health and disease prevention - Life Extension Daily News: Pecans contain different forms of the antioxidant vitamin E-known as tocopherols, plus numerous phenolic substances, many of them with antioxidant abilities. The nuts are especially rich in one form of vitamin E called gamma-tocopherols. The findings illustrate that after eating pecans, gamma-tocopherol levels in the body doubled and unhealthy oxidation of LDL (bad) cholesterol in the blood decreased by as much as 33 percent.

Low EPA levels increase mortality risk in older population

Low EPA levels increase mortality risk in older population - Life Extension Update: The September, 2008 issue of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition published the results of a Norwegian study which found an increased risk of dying among older hospital patients with low plasma concentrations of eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA), a polyunsaturated omega-3 fatty acid that is present in relatively high amounts in oily fish.

Quantitative Assessment of Citric Acid in Lemon Juice, Lime Juice, and Commercially-Available Fruit Juice Products

Quantitative Assessment of Citric Acid in Lemon Juice, Lime Juice, and Commercially-Available Fruit Juice Products | Abstract: Citrate is a naturally-occurring inhibitor of urinary crystallization; achieving therapeutic urinary citrate concentration is one clinical target in the medical management of calcium urolithiasis. When provided as fluids, beverages containing citric acid add to the total volume of urine, reducing its saturation of calcium and other crystals, and may enhance urinary citrate excretion.

The Human Brain - Micronutrients

The Human Brain - Micronutrients: Some of the most potent plant-derived antioxidants are the proanthocyanidins – a subclass of bioflavonoids named for the blue (cyan) pigment that gives certain plants their distinguishing blue hues. This blue color seems to indicate antioxidant protection that's particularly beneficial for the brain.

WHFoods: Onions

WHFoods: Onions: With their unique combination of flavonoids and sulfur-containing nutrients, the allium vegetables — such as onions — belong in your diet on a regular basis.

Contents, Benefits and Uses of the Bay Leaf

Contents, Benefits and Uses of the Bay Leaf | Suite101.com: The bay leaf is an astringent, diuretic and antiseptic, and has a number of health benefits. The antioxidants in the leaf impart it with anti-carcinogenic and anti-inflammatory properties. Moreover, these phytonutrients protect against cardiac problems.

WHFoods: Parsley

WHFoods: Parsley: While parsley is a wonderfully nutritious and healing food, it is often under-appreciated. Most people do not realize that this vegetable has more uses than just being a decorative garnish that accompanies restaurant meals. They do not know that parsley is actually a storehouse of nutrients and that it features a delicious green and vibrant taste.

An apple or pear a day may keep strokes away

An apple or pear a day may keep strokes away: Each 25 gram per day increase in white fruits and vegetable consumption was associated with a 9 percent lower risk of stroke.

PQQ - An Essential Micronutrient That Helps You Thrive

PQQ - An Essential Micronutrient That Helps You Thrive - Vegsource.com: A randomized, double-blind study released in 2009 looked at the the effect of PQQ and CoQ10 supplementation over a 3 month period on 71 middle aged individuals. What they found is that memory, attention, and cognition improved in individuals supplementing with PQQ and this affect was enhanced even more when taking both PQQ and CoQ10 together.

Compound in Celery, Peppers Reduces Age-Related Memory Deficits

Compound in Celery, Peppers Reduces Age-Related Memory Deficits - Nutrition Horizon: We believe dietary luteolin accesses the brain and inhibits or reduces activation of microglial cells and the inflammatory cytokines they produce. This anti-inflammatory effect is likely the mechanism which allows their working memory to be restored to what it was at an earlier age.

Do Vegetarians Live Longer? - Life Extension

Do Vegetarians Live Longer? - Life Extension: Excess consumption of red meat increases the risk of heart disease, certain cancers, and other disorders. As a result, health-conscious people are eating more fruit, vegetables, and fish, and are staying away from beef.

Research links water disinfection byproducts to adverse health effects

Research links water disinfection byproducts to adverse health effects: Certainly, the disinfection of drinking water was one of the most significant public health achievements of the 20th century. But the adverse effects of disinfection byproducts (DBPs) that are unintentionally formed during this process are causing concerns as researchers unveil their toxicity.

Weight loss improves memory, according to Kent State researcher

Weight loss improves memory, according to Kent State researcher: "A lot of the factors that come with obesity – things such as high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes and sleep apnea - that might damage the brain are somewhat reversible," Gunstad said. "As those problems go away, memory function gets better."