A new study shows drinking fruit and vegetable juice three times a week lowers the risk of developing Alzheimer's disease by 76 percent. compared with those who drank less than one serving a week. The study carried out by US researchers involved nearly 2,000 people over a ten-year period. |
Swedish researchers have found that drinking at least two cups of tea a day will cut the risk of developing ovarian cancer by nearly 50 percent. The study involving 60,000 women follows earlier research that showed that tea helps to protect against several types of cancer as well as boost memory. |
Research suggests that eating certain plant foods lowers your risk of developing cancer. Scientists have been studying to determine precisely how and why these foods can prevent or stop the development of tumours. Here's a list of foods that will ward off the deadly disease. |
There is more than meets the eye about achieving stomach weight loss. People are at a loss separating fact from fiction. But who can blame them when the road to good health, especially weight loss, is littered with myths? |
American researchers say eating vegetables appears to keep the brain young. The research involving about 1,946 people aged 65 and older 2,000 men and women showed that older people who ate more than two servings of vegetables daily appeared about five years younger at the end of the six-year study compared to those who ate few or no vegetables. |
Don’t drink alcohol. Take vitamins. Avoid eating eggs. Drink eight glasses of water a day. We have heard these pieces of nutritional advice for years – but are they accurate? |
Doctors once thought that weak bones and osteoporosis were part of aging. But today we know they are not and that they are preventable. Here are three exercises that will build stronger bones. |
A natural chemical in strawberries has been found to boost memory in tests on mice. Fisetin, a naturally occurring flavonoid commonly found in strawberries and memory, say researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies. |
Many people try to lose weight through dieting. But most eventually give up and regain all the weight that they had lost - and some - in no time at all. Researchers may have found a way to beat the problem. |
Smoking could claim the lives of one billion people around the world this century if immediate measures are not taken to reverse the epidemic, warns the World Health Organization in a new report. |
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