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Alzheimer’s disease has no cure at this point, so the best plan is to take steps to prevent this devastating disease. And the best form of prevention is to exercise, eat foods that nourish the brain, monitor your diet—especially your sugar intake—and watch your glucose level. Diabetics have a 65% increased risk for Alzheimer’s disease, so it seems that taking steps to prevent diabetes can also be an important part of preventing…
If you want to destroy your heart, say researchers at the University of California, there’s an easy, tasty, quick way to do it: Keep guzzling soft drinks. High fructose corn syrup, the sweetener used in most soft drinks is one of the worst things for your cardiovascular system. And the more you drink, say the scientists who studied this sickly sweet substance, the more you increase the danger to your…
Colon cancer is the third most common cancer in the world. And you can drop your risk considerably with a few easy changes in your diet. The key: you basically have to eat more like our ancestors did. Researchers have found that when someone more used to eating natural, unprocessed foods starts eating a typical American diet, they can see the changes right away … and they can measure that…
An electronic gadget proven to reduce pain after surgery is fun to use, small enough to carry around in the palm of your hand and may already be in your pocket. It’s your cellphone. A study at Cornell shows that simply texting somebody on your cellphone during and after surgery performed under local anesthetic can significantly cut back your pain and ease your need for a narcotic pain killer. And…
Your health fails when your kidneys fail. And the modern diet is doing everything it can to tax your kidneys beyond what they can handle. Fortunately, I’ve found that there’s an easy way to prevent and even reverse this problem. By making a few simple changes you can turn your diet from acidic to alkaline, giving you more energy, lowering your risk for chronic illnesses and kidney disease, preventing weight…
If you’re worried about the possibility you’ll lose your memory to Alzheimer’s disease, you should know about the natural ways to severely cut your risk. It works a lot better than waiting for Big Pharma to cook up expensive drugs of limited usefulness. Not that conventional medicine doesn’t keep trying to explain why drugs to treat Alzheimer’s are always just a few years away. Consider the new, “ground breaking” discovery…
Premenstrual syndrome can be very mild or quite disruptive, and most women have experienced some form of it at some time in their life to some degree. Hormonal changes in the body appear to have a strong influence on PMS. So, even though it may strike at any age, PMS symptoms can be especially difficult during early years of the menstrual cycle. But it can also strike following pregnancy or…
Do you ever have one of those mornings when everybody oversleeps and you’re having to rush, rush, rush to get out the door? Unfortunately, as the school year draws to a close, we’re having more and more of those. And it’s on mornings like these when my panicked daughter begs me to fix her lunch for her. The problem is that she’s a picky eater. When the boys are rushed,…
Air pollution can shorten your life. But there’s a way to offset some of its lethal effects. Get some exercise. A 17-year study in Denmark shows that while air pollution can endanger your health and lead to an earlier death, staying physically active can negate a portion of that danger. “Even for those living in the most polluted areas of Copenhagen (the city where the study was conducted), it is…
As you get older, your brain ages with the rest of the body. If you want to keep a better-working brain, an extensive study from the Institute of Medicine (IOM) outlines seven steps you can take to keep your wits about you as you grow older. As the IOM notes, everybody’s brain ages differently. Some people’s thinking and memory hardly change at all. Others encounter problems making decisions, solving problems,…