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Walnuts Daily Lower Heart Disease And Help You Sleep Better

18/11/2020

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And boost your brain health

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The choices you make at the grocery store can have an impact on the inflammation in your body. Scientists are still unravelling how food affects our inflammatory processes, but they know a few things.

In simple terms, sugary high-processed foods help release inflammatory messengers that can raise the risk of chronic inflammation. Other foods like fruits and veggies help your body fight against oxidative stress, which can trigger inflammation.

Add walnuts to your shopping list - they fight inflammation and have other desirable side-effects such as helping us sleep better.

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Diabetes: Why Timing Your Exercise After Meals Matters

17/11/2020

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You can lower your blood sugar with the right timing

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If you have diabetes, you're always conscious of the need to keep your blood sugar under control. 

Controlling your blood sugar can avoid long-term complications, including eye disease, kidney problems, nerve problems, cerebrovascular disease such as strokes, and cardiovascular diseases such as heart attacks heart failure and high blood pressure.

Here's a way to dial up your efforts: Consider the timing of your workouts after meals.

​This advice is aimed at Type 2 diabetics and in particular those who are not insulin-dependent.

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Drink This Many Cups Of Coffee Daily For Better Health

13/11/2020

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And add some fenugreek seeds ...

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Is coffee good for you? It could be, in moderation.

Coffee has had a hot-and-cold reputation when it comes to health benefits. Not long ago, I was learning about the dangers of coffee: how it could raise your blood pressure, make your heart race, impair sleep, and maybe even cause bladder and pancreatic cancer.

Now, it seems that drinking two to five daily cups of coffee may protect against heart disease, diabetes, and some cancers.

​But too much can cause problems like anxiety, nervousness, and insomnia.

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Why Covid-19 Kills More Over-50s And How To Reduce The Risk

1/9/2020

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COVID flicks a self-destruct switch - here's your best chance to stop it

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For every 1,000 people infected with the coronavirus who are under the age of 50, almost none will die. For people in their fifties and early sixties, about five will die. Studies reveal that age is by far the strongest predictor of a COVID-19-infected person's risk of dying.

To know that fact is to have information but to lack knowledge - you cannot alter your chronological age. I suspect age is the strongest predictor of anyone dying, i.e. to know that is not actionable.

In this post, I will explain to you the reasons that your mortality risk is higher from COVID-19 when you are older, and what you can do about it. There are concrete actions that you can take once you appreciate the underlying reasons. I'll bet that this has not been explained to you before.

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7 Ways To Stop Your Brain From Aging Prematurely

14/8/2020

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Chronic stress triggers free radical storms

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Our brain is negatively affected by chronic inflammation which is the metabolic imbalance caused by stress, poor eating habits, lack of exercise, or metabolic diseases. The bad news is that as we age our immune defence system becomes weaker, and we are more likely to develop chronic inflammation.

As we age we also exercise less, eat less variety of foods, go outside less often, and socialise less, which all contributes to accelerating chronic stress.


The good news is that scientists have recently come to the view (2016) that a nutritional approach to controlling chronic inflammation "opens a new window for healthy brain aging". 

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Your Gut Is Stopping You Losing Weight - It's Not Your Fault

24/7/2020

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Do these 4 things to kick-start your weight loss

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Dieting is confusing, especially when what works for your best friend doesn't work for you even when you know that you've been just as diligent. Guess what? Scientists have discovered that your gut plays a massive role in the success of dieting.

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Five Better Food Choices I Should Have Made Before I Developed Diabetes

22/7/2020

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If you are over 50 now's the time to make these changes

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We're swamped with nutritional information, but we rarely take action to improve our diets. Healthier eating matters at any age but it matters more as we age. Better choices will help us live longer better.
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If you are over 50, now's the time to make those choices. When I was 50 I was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes. I had left my healthy choices too late, but since then, I've been learning every day. Here's what I know that will help you.

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I Accidently Saw My Current Medical Problems List And Was Shocked

3/7/2020

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I'll never qualify for life insurance

When doctors give you a referral to a specialist, I sometimes wonder what they write. I found out recently and was shocked.
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It's not as though we don't know our own medical history, but we never see it catalogued as a lifetime of ailments. 

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Stress Spikes Diabetes In Otherwise Healthy People - Research

2/7/2020

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Brown fat prolongs our stress response

It's well known that chronic stress is associated with a shorter and less healthy life. Until now, short-term stress was considered less harmful to health.

​Scientists have discovered just how toxic short-term stress can be. It spikes diabetes.

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As You Age Eating Pistachios Can Help You Sleep Better

1/7/2020

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Why was I sleeping better? What I found surprised me

As we get older, our production of melatonin significantly decreases. This decrease does not just affect sleep quality, as melatonin is a hormone with a range of other vital functions. 

It's possible this decline in melatonin production could be offset by dietary melatonin, i.e. eating foods with a high melatonin content. Recently I noticed that I was sleeping better, and what I found when I investigated it surprised me.

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