Introduction In August 2014 the journal “Osteoporosis International” published a report from a trial where researchers compared two groups of patients. One group consumed high doses of vitamin E. The other group only had low doses of vitamin E in their food intake. The investigators
A study published in the Journal of Nutrition in October 2014 found a lack of B vitamins in children predicts obesity. The study was conducted in children aged 8 to 15. The researchers came from the University of Queensland, but the study was done on Mexican-American children who par
Introduction The Journal of Neuroscience reported that resveratrol helps memory and blood sugar. The researchers described a trial on 23 healthy, but overweight persons between the ages of 50 and 75. The healthcare workers gave them 200 mg of resveratrol as a supplement per day for 26
You heard that fiber is good for colon cancer prevention, but have you heard that fiber prolongs life after a heart attack? This is exactly what a study that appeared in the British Medical Journal in April 2014 showed. The lead investigator, Shanshan Li (Harvard School of Public Heal
Vitamin D increases cancer survival as a study at the University of Edinburgh, England showed: about 1600 patients were operated on for colon cancer and around that time their blood levels for vitamin D were also checked. Professor Malcolm Dunlop, the lead investigator, found that pat
A study from Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts has followed a cohort of the Framingham Heart Study for 7 years and published their findings on October 17, 2014. The study group consisted of 2,582 participants from the Framingham Heart Study Offspring cohort with an average age
A study which was continuing for more than ten years involving 5000 nurses found that a Mediterranean diet keeps your cells younger for longer. The nurses involved in this study were eating a diet consisting of vegetables, chicken, fish, fruit, but they stayed away from red meats, but
Introduction Here I am discussing that vitamin D3 benefits both heart and brain. Typically, what’s good for the heart is also good for the brain. This has been reconfirmed in two independent studies involving measurements of vitamin D3 levels (25-hydroxy vitamin D). First study The fi
Calorie restriction makes you live longer; that’s what a remarkable study with primates showed that took 25 years to complete. Rhesus monkeys that had been fed 30% less calories lived longer than their normal controls without calorie-restriction. Rhesus monkeys are genetically v
In the June 5 issue of Cell Stem Cell an article was published that described regeneration of the immune system by fasting. According to the lead author, Valter Longo both animal experiments and work with humans showed that with prolonged fasting the white blood cell count in the bloo