About Health and Longevity
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Discuss all the issues related to living a longer, healthier life. Topics include nuitrition, fitness, lifestyle, medicine, natural remedies, supplements, living in a healthy environment, prescription drugs, the politics of health, and anything else relevant.
Recent Messages
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Reduce Your Cancer Risk--4 Steps
Step One: Live a Healthy Lifestyle
Don’t smoke: Lung cancer is the most common cancer in the world.
Maintain a healthy body weight: Obesity is on course to overtake tobacco as the leading cause f...
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posted by davbunnell
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Give Me My Black Garlic--Please!
For years I've known regularly eating garlic or taking a garlic supplement may provide many health benefits. Garlic is a natural remedy for lowering high blood pressure and high LDL cholesterol whi...
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posted by davbunnell
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Counting Calories is the First Step
If you want to lose some weight, I know one sure-fire method.
First thing in the morning, every morning--stand in front of a mirror and jog in place for one hour. I guarantee you'll lose weight--...
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posted by davbunnell
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How NOT to get Swine Flu
Because there is no vaccine for swine flu, the best protection you can have is to avoid being contaminated in the first place.
The flu is contagious one day before symptoms appear and up to five ...
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posted by davbunnell
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15 Reasons Why Cell Phones Cause Brain Tumors
For years I’ve been reading that (a) cellphones cause brain tumors, and (b) cellphones don’t cause brain tumors.
Every six months or so, it seems there is a new study on this topic that contradict...
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posted by davbunnell
Aging Gracefully?
Hi everyone!
I was wondering if anyone could point me in the direction of websites that have information about aging gracefully and staying healthy. In the spirit of sharing I'll post a link to som...
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posted by Jane M.
Good news for Alzheimer's disease patients.
Good news for Alzheimer's disease patients. A recently published randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, multicenter trial (http://www.nutritionand metabolism.com/content/6/1/31) indicates bu...
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posted by PharmacistKeith
Prevent Alzheimer's
There are many tips about how to minimize the possibility of getting Alzheimer's. The most recent one is quite interesting as researchers from Wake Forest University have found that people who take...
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posted by davbunnell
Doctors debate optimal vitamin D levels
Doctors debate optimal vitamin D levels, however most agree, most people need more
The Standing Committee of European Doctors (CPME) is preparing a vitamin D policy paper it hopes can influence Eu...
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posted by PharmacistKeith
Extemely Tired and Weak
My Mother (age 86) is extremely tired and weak. She has not been very healthy the last couple of years and has been in the hospital and at the emergency room about 8 times in the last 8 weeks. That...
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posted by CEOBev
