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Cognitive Decline Vs. Fruits & Vegetables: Nature’s Supplements Can Boost Your Brain Without A Pill

Filed Under: Mind/Brain

Cognitive Decline Vs. Fruits & Vegetables: Nature’s Supplements Can Boost Your Brain Without A Pill
fruit vegetable cognitive decline pints of assorted berries


Fruits & Vegetables. The Hidden Magic Molecules That Boost Your Brain:
When we think about our quality of life, one of the big parts is brain health.

It would be really nice to be at our best for as long as possible,

Because in some ways, what else do we have? As René Descartes once said, “I Think, therefore I Am.”

But what comes to mind when we think about keeping up our brain fitness?

Probably coffee, a few TV-ad supplements, and maybe a nap.

But in another chapter of, “Your grandmother was right!” researchers are finding out some very specific nutrition can keep your mind in top shape over time…

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Researchers Put Down The Hair-Spray & Rediscover More Awesome Superfood-Properties Of Olive-Oil

Filed Under: Aging, Better Living Through Chemistry, Nutrition

Researchers Put Down The Hair-Spray & Rediscover More Awesome Superfood-Properties Of Olive-Oil
olive oil tasting with hand dipping bread


One Diet Fad That’s Actually Paying Off!:
We all hear about different health fads & recommendations pretty regularly.

-Including crazy stuff like the Big Pasta fad in the Big 80’s.

And along with them, we’ve heard things about all kinds of crazy oils, Snake oil, Krill Oil, Fish Oil, and Olive Oil.

Well science just found out something actually worthwhile about the last one…

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Gentlemen! -Start Your Nutcrackers! Super-Study Finds We Just Might Have Another Super-Food

Filed Under: Aging, Better Living Through Chemistry, Nutrition, Vitamins/Supplements

Gentlemen! -Start Your Nutcrackers! Super-Study Finds We Just Might Have Another Super-Food
old yellow gas pump with hi-octane fuel


The Search For The Holy Grail:
So, ever since the beginning, HT has been about finding that extra hack that can help a lot if done consistently over time. Maybe even change your life.

And nowhere is that quest more symbolized than the hunt for the elusive Superfood.

They may seem like nothing more than drug-like hopes pinned on weird foods, but with things like blueberries & broccoli, the power of selective-nutrition grows as science progresses.

Well, another chapter of that quest looks like it might possibly be opening for another food…

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Healthy French Fries?!?? Nope. BUT! Less Un-Healthy If You Cook Them This Way. -And Maybe That’s Enough Of An Excuse…

Filed Under: Better Living Through Chemistry, Disease, Nutrition, Weight Loss / Fat Loss

Healthy French Fries?!?? Nope. BUT! Less Un-Healthy If You Cook Them This Way. -And Maybe That’s Enough Of An Excuse…
golden french fries standing up in white porcelain ramekin on white marble tabletop


An Old Spectre Returns, Bearing Unexpected Gifts:
So forever you’ve been told that Steaming is the healthiest way to go for vegetables.

-And that anything other than the pyrotechnic-majesty of outdoor-grilling was nutritional-suicide. Maybe oven-roasting was a close second.

And so far, we’ve thought the experts were right.

Well some new experts have chimed in on an old bogeyman-cooking-method, and there is some light [if-qualified] at the end of the tunnel for that old health-nemesis: Deep Fat Frying…

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The World’s Favorite Superfood Looks Like It Might Have Yet Another Benefit. -Brainpower!

Filed Under: Aging, Mind/Brain, Nutrition, Sex, Meds, Rock n Roll

The World’s Favorite Superfood Looks Like It Might Have Yet Another Benefit. -Brainpower!
roasted cocoa beans in square glass by nestle


Let Food Be Your Medicine…:
More good news, my little easter bunnies! Yet another excuse to eat the world’s most popular sweet; as if you needed one.

So, our nutritional-research Hero Dr. Georgie Crichton & her intrepid team went back and examined a study called the MSLS on what people ate and drank over time.

And they found an interesting correlation between food and smarts.

One that worked -even after- factoring out many confounding variables…

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Gentlemen, Start Your Kombuchas! -Antibiotics Cause Bigger Changes Than Previously-Thought

Filed Under: Better Living Through Chemistry, Sex, Meds, Rock n Roll

Gentlemen, Start Your Kombuchas! -Antibiotics Cause Bigger Changes Than Previously-Thought
small old fashioned clocks time warped collage


Too Much Of A Good/Bad Thing:
We’ve all been told we need antibiotics from time-to-time. But sometimes, that advice gets taken a bit too far into overuse.

So much so that not only do we now have antibiotic-resistant superbugs, but many strains of old annoyances are on the verge of turning antibiotic-resistant, too.

Well now we can chalk up another issue to watch out for: Long-Term Collateral-Damage…

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Starbucks AHOY! -Science Discovers Yet Again That Coffee Is Awesome, This Time: Saving Your Skin

Filed Under: Aging, Better Living Through Chemistry, Disease, Nutrition, Vitamins/Supplements

Starbucks AHOY! -Science Discovers Yet Again That Coffee Is Awesome, This Time: Saving Your Skin
4 coffee cups on wooden table 2 with coffee 1 with beans 1 with grinds


Coffee and Tea drinking have been linked [perhaps a little tenuously at times] to a whole host of health benefits, like this, this, and this.

Well now we can add another one to that growing list.

It also turns out that coffee may prevent some cancer; on your skin; -seriously.

In a study of 400,000+ participants over about 10 years, taking into account diet and some environmental factors, drinking up to 3 cups of coffee a day was associated with a 10% reduction in…

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Move Over Blueberries & Acai, New Purple Superfood INDAHOUSE!

Filed Under: Bio-Tech, Nutrition, Vitamins/Supplements, Weight Loss / Fat Loss

Move Over Blueberries & Acai, New Purple Superfood INDAHOUSE!
wild blue berries on pine tree winter


Now, when you visualize something after hearing the word, “Superfood”, you probably imagine some impossibly-expensive super-bean from the north shore of Bali, the darkest part of the Amazon, the bleakest steppes of Maine blueberry-country, or Gwynneth Paltrow’s blog.

But the scientists at Rutgers had a different idea: What if you could make a superfood out of something common, that normal people eat every day without a second thought…

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