15 Sunday Apr 2018
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https://www.dcourier.com/news/2018/apr/14/why-allergies-prescott-are-so-bad/
The Prescott area is known for many things. Most are positive, but there is one that makes many of the area’s residents absolutely miserable.
“We are given the dubious honor of being the number one allergy capital of the country,” said Dr. Susan Godman, founder and owner of Partners in Health Care Naturally in Prescott.
True. Even my dog Shady is suffering with allergies. As am I.
24 Monday Jul 2017
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link: http://www.marketwatch.com/story/good-news-if-you-love-coffee-2017-07-24
That’s right: Coffee is the fountain of youth. Sort of. Yet another study shows that coffee drinking is correlated with longer life. I’m going to brew another cup momentarily!
Two new large studies suggest it might have been coffee that bubbled from the fountain of youth.
Both studies, one conducted in the U.S., one across 10 European countries, found that people who drank even a single cup of coffee a day — decaf and/or caffeinated — lived longer than people who didn’t drink any coffee.
Still, the consistency of findings across different ethnic groups in the U.S. study and different methods of preparation in the European study — espressos in Italy, watered down coffee in Scandinavian countries — adds credence to the notion that coffee protects against many of the leading causes of death.
And as a trio of Johns Hopkins University scientists wrote in an editorial accompanying the two papers, “a protective effect of coffee is biologically plausible.” The studies and the editorial were published online recently in the Annals of Internal Medicine.
25 Thursday May 2017
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Chocolate, coffee. Health foods. I plan to consume more of both
A new study suggests there’s a link between eating chocolate and a decrease of between 11% and 20% in “artrial fibrillation,” a heart flutter or irregular heart beat that can lead to blood clots, stroke, heart failure and other complications. The study, published in the BMJ (formerly, the British Medical Journal) is based on more than 55,500 participants who had also provided information on their chocolate intake.
“Moderate consumption of cocoa and cocoa-containing foods may promote cardiovascular health due to their high content of flavanols,” the study found. Flavanols are plant-based nutrients that have antioxidant and anti-inflammatory benefits. There has been extensive research showing that moderate consumption of chocolate, particularly dark chocolate, is associated with a lower rate of heart attacks and heart failure.
link: http://www.marketwatch.com/story/another-study-suggests-chocolate-is-good-for-your-heart-2017-05-25
07 Friday Apr 2017
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Link: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/03/170316093412.htm
- Tea drinking reduces the risk of cognitive impairment in older persons by 50 per cent and as much as 86 per cent for those who are genetically at risk of Alzheimer’s, new research suggests.
- A cup of tea a day can keep dementia away, and this is especially so for those who are genetically predisposed to the debilitating disease, according to a recent study led by Assistant Professor Feng Lei from the Department of Psychological Medicine at National University of Singapore’s (NUS) Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine.
I drink green tea on a regular basis, but I seem to be loosing my mind anyway 😦
17 Tuesday Jan 2017
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There’s a clear connection between chronological age, chronic inflammation, cardiovascular disease and… coffee consumption.
More than 90 percent of all noncommunicable diseases of aging are associated with chronic inflammation. And more than 1,000 papers have provided evidence that chronic inflammation contributes to many cancers, Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias, cardiovascular disease, osteoarthritis and even depression.
It’s also well known — well, at least among the scientists who study this kind of thing — that caffeine intake is associated with longevity. Now, Stanford immunologists David Furman, PhD, and Mark Davis, PhD, and their colleagues have revealed a likely reason why this may be so.
This study is from Stanford University. link: http://scopeblog.stanford.edu/2017/01/16/drink-for-your-heart-caffeine-may-counter-age-related-inflammation-cardiovascular-disease/
I have considered coffee to be health food for a ling time, Why? because I like it, and the food police have been after it for years.
