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Longer Life With Mediterranean Diet

Longer Life With Mediterranean Diet

The fact that you can have a longer life with a Mediterranean diet is known for some time. But now a study has shown that the reason for a longer life is the fact that telomeres get elongated from the Mediterranean diet. Telomeres are the caps at the end of chromosomes, and they get s
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B Vitamins Fights Cognitive Deficit

B Vitamins Fight Cognitive Deficit

Middle-aged and older men and women can develop cognitive deficits with an elevation of homocysteine in the blood. This is due to partial methylation defects that were compensated for all their lives, but with the aging process the inherent metabolic disbalance causes symptoms like co
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New Arthritis Drugs Can Kill

New Arthritis Drugs Can Kill

Introduction For years doctors have been prescribing anti-inflammatory drugs for arthritis; now they find that the new arthritis drugs can kill. The “improved version” of them that have less stomach irritation are the COX-2 inhibitors. This includes celecoxib (brand names: Celebrex an
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Fiber Is Good For You

Fiber Is Good For You

Fiber is good for you as it has been proven to be beneficial for prevention of cardiovascular diseases and various cancers in the past; now it has been studied again in a much larger study population as was reported recently in the media. This news report was based on this medical stu
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