7 things to do this week to make you healthy
January 31, 2008
Two glasses of cranberry juice daily can protect against flu, prevent tooth decay and fight stomach ulcers and bladder infection — But not if you’re a bloke. For reasons still largely unclear, these benefits apply only to women
Statin disaster
January 31, 2008
A cautionary tale of one man’s experience with statins.
Shredded at Last
January 31, 2008
Despite the backlash against cardio, Dr. C thinks you ought to be slapped around if you’re not doing it. In fact a little cardio, along with his prescription for carb cycling, might be all you need to get shredded.
Loneliness Is Worse For You Than Smoking
January 31, 2008
Talking to your cats or treating your dog like a child isn
’t crazy after all. In fact, it’s rather good for you. The results from a University of Chicago study reveal that in the absence of human connection, we anthropomorphize, or cast human-like characteristics onto pets, a supernatural or god figure or, less frequently, gadgets.
Vegetarian comfort food
January 31, 2008
What to feed a vegetarian with a cold, complete with recipes and the world’s funniest video (Are all men like this with a cold? I think YES!).
Controlling food size for losing weight
January 30, 2008
Food size plays an important role as far as our weight loss is concerned. We need to keep our food portion very sensible. On mostly occasions, we do not look too much or notice at the food size that is being served to us. Eating large food portion is one of the major reasons for too many people getting overweight.
Why do the French have less heart disease and cancer?
January 30, 2008
When the typical French diet and lifestyle often includes high-fat foods as well as cigarettes? Their studies showed that, surprisingly, it was the French habit of drinking a glass or two of red wine each day that protected them from developing these chronic diseases.
Top 100 calorie burning way-outs
January 30, 2008
Most of us have tends to be too busy that they have hardly any time for their health. We have hours of time to watch TV, Play computer games, Internet surfing and sitting inactive at home. But we don
’t have 30 or 40 minutes for our health and fitness; that looks really astonishing.
Cells that Cause Leukemia Discovered
January 30, 2008
Scientists have discovered the cancer ‘stem cells’ that cause acute lymphoblastic leukaemia, the most common form of childhood cancer.
Antiageing drug shows promise in first human test
January 30, 2008
The drug targets SIRT1, the founding member of the human sirtuin family of enzymes which control the ageing process. SRT501 acts by increasing the activity of cellular powerhouses implicated in ageing, called mitochondria.
