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10 tips for a longer life
1. Be a Weekday vegetarian, weekend carnivore
Vegetarians typically suffer fewer degenerative diseases and cancers than their carnivore cousins. It's been approximated that a third of all cancer patients developed their disease as a result of insufficient whole plant fibre in their diets. Nevertheless , you don't have to give up meat entirely to enjoy longevity - limiting your intake or eating meat only on weekends is a perfectly balanced and healthy approach.
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Is Organic Food Worth the Price?
THURSDAY, June 8 (HealthDay News) - Your local grocer remodels the store, and one of the big changes takes place in the produce department.
Do Eggs Contribute to Higher Cholesterol?
Are you wondering if eggs are good for you?
So what should a person who is trying to eat for and live a healthy lifestyle to do?
You Can Avoid Losing Muscle Mass As You Age
Some loss of muscle mass and strength is common as you get older.The medical term for this is sarcopenia. Your muscle strength generally peaks in your 20s and starts to slowly decline in your 30s. A rapid decline then begins after age 60. Lack of muscle tone and strength can lead to increasing difficulty with everyday tasks, decreased balance and increased risk of falls, and decreased bone density. It may also lead to slower metabolism, leading to weight gain.
How to hire a personal trainerYou should research a personal trainer as you would any other health professional.
1. Ask for references, just like you would when looking fora doctor or other health care provider. Ask your friends, ...
Type 2 Diabetes may be delayed by Coffee
Many studies in the last few years are suggesting that regular coffee consumption is associated with a lower risk of getting type 2 diabetes.Any beneficial effects come no doubt, by also cutting back on the amount of cream and sugar consumed with it.A group of researchers lead by Dr. Rob M. van Dam from the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston evaluated the effect of the consumption of...
French kissing teens at higher risk for meningitis
Teens who passionately kiss multiple partners run a higher risk of getting meningococcal disease, according to a British study. Authors of the research say changing personal behaviour or developing additional vaccines could reduce infections. Meningococcal disease is caused by bacteria that can lead to several kinds of infection, including meningitis - an inflammation of the fluid and lining of the brain and spinal cord. The number of incidents of the potentia...
More Men Are Discovering Cosmetic Surgery
By Kathleen Doheny HealthDay Reporter MONDAY, Jan. 2 (HealthDay News) Need proof that cosmetic surgery and men is now a mainstream marriage?Check out these statistics: While women still make up 87 percent of all cosmetic surgery patients, 1.2 million procedures were performed on men in 2004. That's a 16 percent increase since 2000, according to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS). "More men than ever before are getting...
Urethritis in Men Linked to Oral Sex
By Randy Dotinga HealthDay Reporter FRIDAY, Jan. 6 (HealthDay News) -- New research suggests that the gonorrhea-like condition known as urethritis, perhaps the most common sexually transmitted disease, can spread to men when they're on the receiving end of fellatio. "This one really nails it down," said Dr. Hunter Handsfield, a professor of medicine at the University of Washington who wrote a commentary about the findings. Urethritis, a condition ...
Scaling Back On Weight
Too often people rely on the scale to dictate health when the truth is that it is more than what the scale says that can tell you about your health. Lose the scale and focus on healthy living. By Nicki Anderson
This past week I was working with one of my clients who was feeling great. She has made some fantastic lifestyle changes which have taken awhile to develop, but overall she is feeling better than she has in a long time. When our session was over ...
7 Reasons Why Your Muscles Stop Growing
Have ever wondered why your muscles stopped growing after a few months of training even though you are training very hard? Here are 7 reasons why your muscles stopped growing and how to get your muscle to grow again. • You are training too hard – Every time when you train your muscles intensely, you are actually breaking down your muscles. So your muscles need to recover from the damages you inflicted on them. So train each muscle group only once or at most twice a week. ...
Women warned that screenings may miss signs of heart disease
Conventional diagnostic tests tend to miss the warning signs of heart disease in women, a new study suggests. Although heart disease is the biggest killer of both men and women in the developed world, researchers have found women may not be treated as aggressively, and often fare more poorly after open-heart surgery, compared to men. Angiogram tests show significant blockages in major arteries, but can't detect clogging in smaller blood vessels. Failure to...
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