Vitality for life
If you’re like most people in the U.S., you have a cabinet full of spices, many of which you use once or twice a year at most. I’d like to encourage you to open that cabinet and start using spices liberally. Ounce for ounce, they contain more antioxidants and other beneficial phytonutrients and compounds than [...]
I’m not against drinking alcohol. I don’t believe the Bible condemns alcohol consumption - it only speaks against drunkenness. However, the more I study the effects of alcohol consumption, the more wary I become of the stuff. I used to have a glass of wine (sometimes two) every evening. But after reading up on the [...]
As many lapsed dieters can attest, even modest calorie restriction can be hard to sustain. And not everyone who wants to be healthy and long-lived wants or needs to be stick thin.
Mark Mattson, a researcher at the National Institute on Aging in Bethesda, Maryland, thinks an alternate route may be through what he calls intermittent [...]
Many studies (dating as far back as 1935) done on animals - including dogs and primates - show that controlling their diets by reducing daily calorie allotment 20 to 40% leads to increased longevity by as much as 50%. In many of the test subjects, their life span was extended beyond the maximum life span [...]
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