What fatty foods are doing to your brain
- Thu Jan 12 2012
- Sarah Treleaven
For most people, the big concern is that junk food will go straight to their thighs. But did you ever stop to consider what those delicious little morsels might be doing to your brain?
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Can eating less help you live longer?
- Wed Dec 21 2011
- Sarah Treleaven
This is probably the worst time of year to break this kind of news, but put the bowl of marshmallow Santas down for a moment and listen up. According to new research reported by AFP, eating a calorie-restricted diet can help you live longer.
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Running across Canada: Meet the man doctors said would never walk again
- Fri Jul 22 2011
- Alanna Glassman
After David McGuire sustained a brain injury in 2005, doctors told him that he would never walk again. A year later, he entered his first marathon. Now, he’s running a marathon a day across Canada, in support of brain injury awareness, as part of an event he's created called A Run to Remember.
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What do wrinkles say about your health?
- Wed Jun 22 2011
- Sarah Treleaven
Most of us ladies go out of our way to avoid wrinkles, especially once we hit our thirties. We avoid the sun. We eat skin-friendly foods, like avocados, salmon and olive oil. We finally give up our social smoking habit. And we start to realize that five vodka sodas in one night doesn't exactly leave us fresh-faced and dewy come morning. But did you ever stop to think about what your wrinkles might be saying about your health?
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How exercise can protect your brain
- Mon Jun 13 2011
- James Fell
A new study published in the June 8 online issue of the Neurology tells me something I already knew, but from a different angle.
Older people who don’t exercise are at a greater risk for “silent strokes” that create small brain lesions over time and lead to impaired memory, increased risk of falls, and even dementia. If you engage in moderate exercise, however, you can reduce your risk of these silent strokes by about 40 percent.
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How to keep your brain young: The sleep factor
- Wed May 18 2011
- Sarah Treleaven
Few things in life are as fine a balance as sleep, and it's tough to get it just right. Too little sleep has been linked to all kinds of chronic problems, from unflattering eye bags to obesity, diabetes and premature death. And now it turns out that either too little or too much sleep can unduly age your brain, and even speed up the onset of dementia.
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