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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
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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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Stress Researchers: Healthy Eating Isn’t Enough. You Have To Treat Your Heart & Mind Well, Too.

Filed Under: Better Living Through Chemistry, Disease, Mind/Brain, Nutrition

Stress Researchers: Healthy Eating Isn’t Enough. You Have To Treat Your Heart & Mind Well, Too.
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Eating Healthier Is All You Need, Right?:
For awhile now, at least since the “Margarine is groovy!” 1970s, we’ve all been told to eat healthier.

We then made up for all the hydrogenated oils with a new addiction to Olive Oil in the pasta-fantastic Big 80’s.

And despite the recent ethical-sourcing commercials at Chipotle & Panera, it turns out we neglected one thing: Literally & Figuratively, Your Heart.

Because no matter how healthy you eat, what you put the Figurative one through could be a real problem for everything else…

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Omega 3s May Help Lower Brain Disease Risk. …Omega 2s? -Feeling Jealous And Neglected. 4s Not So Damn Smug Anymore, Are They?

Filed Under: Aging, Mind/Brain, News, Nutrition, Vitamins/Supplements

Omega 3s May Help Lower Brain Disease Risk. …Omega 2s? -Feeling Jealous And Neglected. 4s Not So Damn Smug Anymore, Are They?
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In a study of 12 1,200 people, Columbia researchers have come up with at least an association between Dementia/Alzheimer’s and Omega 3 intake. -One that’s been hinted at many times before.

It turns out that people who get more were observed to have lower incidence of the “Doddering Granny” varieties of brain disease.

And in a strange-for-medecine interesting turn…

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Yes It’s Corny, But Inflammation Is Depressing!

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

Yes It’s Corny, But Inflammation Is Depressing!
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Watch What You Eat!:
Emily Deans makes a brilliant leap on nutrition-based psychology.

In yet another salvo against Inflammation, Dr. Emily theorizes a link between that emerging health boogeyman and,

… Psychology.

It turns out the processed-food, ADM-sponsored, corn-oil-based imbalance in our current diet between Omega 6 and Omega 3 can affect not only…

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