Does Coffee Kill or Cure?

June 23, 2008

Coffee, Java, Joe, Mud, Beans, Cafe — whatever you call it — coffee is the most popular drink on the planet, in international terms. Even so, in “natural health” circles it was, and perhaps still is, regarded as just about as evil as alcohol. Natural health people don’t like substances that either stimulate or depress [...]

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Resistance and Cardio Work to Prevent Diabetes

June 19, 2008

Diabetes is a disease of glucose metabolism. Too much glucose in the blood acts as a toxin that damages small and large blood vessels. Disorders of insulin function cause this. Insulin is the hormone that stores glucose in muscle cells. If you exercise sufficiently well, you can put glucose away in storage or use it [...]

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Heart Disease on the Increase for Women

June 19, 2008

Photo by I Love Naples While breast cancer is often a health focus for women, disease of the heart and arteries is the leading cause of death among men and women in most developed countries, accounting for about half of all deaths and associated illness. In recent years, cardiovascular disease and deaths from it, in [...]

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Daily Tip – It’s NEAT to Move More

June 18, 2008

NEAT stands for ‘non-exercise activity thermogenesis’, which means the amount of energy you expend in doing everyday stuff like housework, walking to the store, gardening and fiddling with your body like picking your nails or scratching yourself. Yep, it’s true, these incidental activities can make the difference between being overweight or not.

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Booze! Someone’s Got To Do It

June 16, 2008

You won’t find many doctors telling you to start drinking if you don’t already. They’re terrified of creating alcoholics. The truth is, drinking in moderation — and that’s the gotcha — seems to have substantial benefits, from heart disease to bone strength and, possibly, for preventing rheumatoid arthritis.   Photo by IntangibleArts The Bad Stuff First [...]

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Vitamin D Deficiency May Cause Heart Attacks

June 10, 2008

Photo by Paul Keleher As reported by Reuters health, a new study by Harvard University health researchers has found that men with the lowest blood levels of vitamin D are more susceptible to heart attacks, especially fatal heart attacks. Vitamin D improves calcium absorption and is important for bone health and to prevent osteoporosis. In [...]

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How Exercise and Healthy Eating Protect You

June 9, 2008

Photo by moriza I know you’ve probably read a lot about why you should eat a healthy diet and exercise regularly, but I thought I’d summarize the essentials so that this blog kicks off on a sound basis. It’s a short, overview list and some points may need further explanation, and I’ll eventually get to that. Manage weight. Being [...]

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Eat Well, Get Fit, Beat Diabetes, Heart Disease and Cancer

June 6, 2008

Get cutting edge information and analysis on preventing the big three lifestyle diseases — heart disease, cancer and diabetes — in plain language. Type 2 diabetes is increasing to the point where “epidemic” is not seen as exaggeration — not only in the western economies but among the affluent Asian countries as well — India, China [...]

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