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Flavonoids & Living Longer: Eating The Right Food May Give You ‘Body Armor’ Against Disease And Aging

Filed Under: Aging

Flavonoids & Living Longer: Eating The Right Food May Give You ‘Body Armor’ Against Disease And Aging
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Flavonoids & Living Longer, “Body Armor” Against Aging & Disease:
So Fall is now upon us and the assault of Pumpkin-Spice everything is here.

But Fall is also prime-time for Apple season!

And that is a reminder of two good things. Eating Seasonally and Hidden Benefits.

Most people don’t think too much in-terms of what good a certain food could do them,

And that would be a big mistake according to a new study by ECU researchers who’ve found that foods with properties similar to apples may have some surprising hidden benefits…

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Inflammation vs. Intermittent – Fasting: The Newest Miracle Diet Has A Few More Tricks Up Its Sleeve

Filed Under: Highlights, Popular Diets

Inflammation vs. Intermittent – Fasting: The Newest Miracle Diet Has A Few More Tricks Up Its Sleeve
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Intermittent-Fasting & Inflammation. Another Unexpected Miracle:
Weight Loss seems like -The- universal health problem. Everyone talks about it.

Because of that, we’ve got supermarket checkout lines stuffed with BS celebrity fad-diets that are supposed to get you down to 6% bodyfat in 8 weeks.

So as a result, most diet plans tend to get a bad rap.

But a recent spin on a very old way of eating has cropped-up with some impressive new supporting-evidence,

And some work by Mount Sinai researchers is making Intermittent-Fasting look amazing one more time…

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Red Wine & Gut Health: Your Internal Microbes Might Solve The French Paradox And Save You Too!

Filed Under: Nutrition

Red Wine & Gut Health: Your Internal Microbes Might Solve The French Paradox And Save You Too!
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Red Wine & Gut Health. A Fun Antioxidant Source Provides Hidden Benefits:
They say you are what you eat.

Maybe if you get a little more nerdy, you start talking Fat, Carbs, Protein,

And crazier-still, you might even look at Calories!

But very few of us get down to thinking about biochemistry or even what our microbes are doing.

And if a KCL team out of England has the story right, what you eat and drink has effects far in-excess of just keeping you full.

They could go right down to the chemistry of your body, and metabolism…

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Trees & Mental Health: Nature Therapy Benefits From Greenspace Still Attainable In Your Town, If…

Filed Under: Mind/Brain

Trees & Mental Health: Nature Therapy Benefits From Greenspace Still Attainable In Your Town, If…
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Trees & Mental Health. Specific Green Spaces May Help Mind & Body:
Just like we talked about before, as more data becomes accessible, Science is going to newer and weirder places to find solutions to problems.

The other side of that is science going to similar places to find Benefits, too.

And what does everyone’s Mom keep saying when they’re little? Go outside and play.

Aside from the Exercise, Vitamin D, and the Novelty,

There has always been something about being out in Nature that just seems to do us good.

But what is it? Some Australian researchers may have just figured that out…

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Air Pollution & Depression: Psychological Disorders May Be Linked To What You Breathe

Filed Under: Mind/Brain

Air Pollution & Depression: Psychological Disorders May Be Linked To What You Breathe
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Air Pollution, Depression, & Bipolar. Stealthy Threats Are Hard To Escape:
Science has been trying to decode the origins and fixes to different problems for a long time.

And one set that still baffles researchers to this day is psychological problems.

Where do they come from? Chemical Imbalance? Genetics? Aliens?

The problem for many stealthy health issues is that there are few easy answers or perfect 1-shot treatments.

And in the latest effort to track them down, a team led by U. Chicago is going after mental-illness in an odd place: Air Pollution…

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Optimism & Living Longer: Does A Shift In Your Attitude Also Raise Your Altitude?

Filed Under: Aging, Highlights

Optimism & Living Longer: Does A Shift In Your Attitude Also Raise Your Altitude?
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Optimism & Increased-Longevity. Does The Mindset Control Matter?:
The more Science progresses, the weirder it seems to get.

And conversely, it often tends to confirm many adages from a long time ago.

Like the one by Hippocrates about food being medicine and it being a better idea to get your vitamins and minerals there.

Well another old adage is one about being young at heart and never acting your age.

And if the work by BU, Harvard and a few others is right, a positive mindset might actually make the difference between a long life and a shorter one…

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Smartphone Games Vs. Stress: Can They Beat Meditation For Happiness & Relaxation, Or Not?

Filed Under: Mind/Brain

Smartphone Games Vs. Stress: Can They Beat Meditation For Happiness & Relaxation, Or Not?
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Smartphone Games Vs. Stress: A Better Decompress Than Mindfulness?:
So we’ve talked about Stress before, and it’s a killer. Worse than sitting.

And so part of the normal hygiene you’d go through for your life is to find a way to clear that out. A popular choice is Cardiovascular Exercise.

But one of the best approaches a person can take is… more than one approach.

Attack a problem from several angles. You aren’t a one-dimensional person, so why act that way?

And for Stress, the reduction procedure most-associated with side-benefits is Meditation. Except there’s a problem…

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Alzheimer’s & TEMT: NeuroEM Gadget May Help Revive Minds Via Electro-Magnetic Brain POWAH!

Filed Under: Gadgets

Alzheimer’s & TEMT: NeuroEM Gadget May Help Revive Minds Via Electro-Magnetic Brain POWAH!
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Alzheimers Vs. TEMT Electromagnetic Brain-Hacking Cap. Another Win?:
The History of Science is full of strange gadgets right back to our earliest days.

We’ve always tried to solve problems or improve some capability with wacky devices.

Whether it’s the surprisingly-advanced tools the Egyptians used to perform surgery,

All the way to Doc Brown’s electrical mind-reading headset from “Back To The Future”

But now, Science is getting a lot more serious about doing good with electricity and magnetism.

And a recent device in that long-parade might be another step in the direction of fixing a serious health problem; possibly without drugs…

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