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Healthy diet lowers Alzheimer's risk

Eating a diet high in vegetables, fish, fruit, nuts and poultry, and low in red meat and butter may reduces the risk of Alzheimer's disease. To assess the association between food combination and Alzheimer’s disease risk, resea [...]

Posted On : Apr, 17 2010 | Comments : 0

Can Diet Lower Alzheimer's Risk?

Alzheimer's disease is the most common form of dementia among the elderly, affecting an estimated 5 million Americans. Unless some type of cure or prevention is found, that number may increase to 14 million by 2050, experts say. [...]

Posted On : Apr, 16 2010 | Comments : 0

Diet can sharply cut Alzheimer's risk - study

A diet rich in olive oil, nuts, fish, poultry and certain fruits and vegetables may have a powerful effect at staving off Alzheimer's disease, researchers reported on Monday. People who ate nutrients specifically selected for bra [...]

Posted On : Apr, 15 2010 | Comments : 0

Fruits and Vegetables Not Proved To Reduce Cancer Threat

It may have earlier been recommended that having plenty of fruits can help in curbing cancer, but recent studied have failed to prove it. It was a recommendation put forth by many prominent medical authorities, along with the World Healt [...]

Posted On : Apr, 10 2010 | Comments : 0

Healthy habits

The Taylor Family YMCA will host a community event to promote the health of local children and educate parents about how to keep their kids in shape. The Y’s annual Healthy Kids Day will be held at the Taylor Regional Park and Spor [...]

Posted On : Apr, 09 2010 | Comments : 0

Healthy diet and exercise could prevent 80,000 cancers - cha...

Britain's record on so-called lifestyle cancers is as bad as America's and around one in three cases of some of the most common cancers could be avoided with healthier diet and exercise, the World Cancer Research Fund has said. [...]

Posted On : Apr, 06 2010 | Comments : 0

Cholesterol drugs - To take or not to take is the question!

To take or not to take cholesterol drugs is the question. Cholesterol drugs are known for its life support system. It has saved the lives of millions.But should this be taken by healthy people? This is a controversial sttaement. The [...]

Posted On : Apr, 03 2010 | Comments : 0

A high-fat breakfast of bacon and eggs may be the healthiest...

For the first meal eaten after a night's sleep appears to programme the metabolism for the rest of the day, the researchers found. And the age-old maxim "Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a paup [...]

Posted On : Apr, 01 2010 | Comments : 1

Healthy Eating - Conference encourages tastier tactics

Imagine a day when your doctor hands you a recipe instead of a prescription and you’ll share the vision of health professionals gathered recently at the Culinary Institute of America’s campus in Napa Valley. The Healthy [...]

Posted On : Mar, 31 2010 | Comments : 0

Healthy Red Wings' lineup raises thoughts of 'what if'

A strong post-Olympics push has put the Red Wings in realistic position to finish as high as fifth in the Western Conference -- and made it hard not to wonder where they'd be if they'd been healthy all season. The Wings are 11- [...]

Posted On : Mar, 29 2010 | Comments : 0

Healthy Kids Day

The Johnston YMCA will host a Healthy Kids Expo and Field Day in conjunction with the nation's largest health day for children and families. The Expo will feature local businesses and provide hands on demonstrations and samplings. Th [...]

Posted On : Mar, 18 2010 | Comments : 0

A healthy diet, a cancer free nation

INKHOSIKATI LaMbikiza has applauded the efforts of those who led to the adoption of the charter of Paris in 2000 and the whole of VICC in making the world sensitive to cancer in 2006. She says the first world cancer day in 2006 called fo [...]

Posted On : Mar, 15 2010 | Comments : 0

Healthy bodies lead to healthy minds

There were many good reasons for Vancouver to host the Olympics. But one of the best of them, in our view, was that they'd encourage a whole new generation of young Canadians to get off the couch and get into sports. So often you hea [...]

Posted On : Mar, 09 2010 | Comments : 0

Western diet may be bad for teens

Western diet may be bad for teens’ mental health (Getty Images)Western diet may have a negative impact on adolescents’ mental health, according to a new study. In the study of 1600 14-year-old adolescents, Dr Wendy Oddy, from [...]