I guess if there ever was a good healthy reason for walking then the latest reseach from the University of South Carolina has to be up there among the top three. After a five year research study of 6,278 adults researchers found that a brisk walk of two and a half hours spread across a week cuts the risk of high blood pressure by a quarter percent, and it does not stop there. The research [...]

Since I last posted on Vitamin C and Selenium having positive or negative effects on the body (back in April 2008) it was said at the time more data on these two supplements needed to come from future trials. Patrick Holford, who had formulated some supplements for the firm Biocare, said at the time he felt the Cochrane review was a “stitch up”. Since then a study, published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, [...]

For Some time now I have posted much about research that is being done to combat Alzheimer’s Disease and although it can not help those who suffer, like yesterday, the promising results, are still some if not many years away yet, can still be seen as a light at the end of the tunnel. My last post was about the benefit of high levels of caffeine in coffee helping in the battle to beat Alzheimer’s. [...]

New research by Canadian Scientists looking into Sleep Behavior disorder, which can include violent movement, have discovered what they would suggest to be a link to Parkinson’s Disease. The study was carried out on 93 people aged 65 years old, or there abouts who have this sleep disorder. (yes I know the sleeping man doesn’t look 65yrs old… He’s not meant to) The study over a five year period discovered that 14 individuals developed Parkinson’s [...]

I came across this piece of health news that may help toward the fight against Alzheimer’s Disease. Mike Swain Science editor for the Daily Mirror penned a news item that suggests that caffeine may help in the battle to reduce the deaths of so many individuals suffering from this debilitating illness. A four year study on 124 men and women aged between 65 and 88 found that those individuals showing early signs of dementia had [...]

A news article penned by Mike Swain science editor for the Mirror caught my attention. It raises new hope for heart attack victims and their family. The item published by the Scripps Translational Science Institute involved a study of 50 patients with heart emergencies. It appears researchers Led by Dr Eric Topol based in San Diego California believe they may have discovered by monitoring the endothelial, which is the thin layer of cells that line [...]

I do not know how you feel about it, but for me, the many conflicting stories I have read about how fizzy drinks contribute toward the deterioration of our cardiovascular system make my head spin. The latest story is how researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston have found that fizzy sugar based drinks consumed on a daily basis increase the amount of certain fats and proteins in our blood which have [...]

Did you know not drinking enough water can put you in a bad mood? When we feel thirsty we are in the early stages of dehydration but by then it is too late to alter our mood. Expert Harris Lieberman of the University of Connecticut in the USA said in the Journal of Nutrition that women were more at risk of the effects of mild dehydration. However, they do not know why this should be. [...]

There has been another breakthrough in the fight to beat Alzheimer’s and make this debilitating disease a thing of the past. Working with mice who had been genetically programmed to develop Alzheimer’s chemical biologist Professor David Vocadlo and his team at the Simon Fraser University in Canada, found by injecting the mice with a chemical know as Thiamet-G which helped to maintain a supply of blood glucose to brain cells that would normally be slowed [...]

Are you an old grouch? do you harbour thoughts of a pessimistic nature? Do you say a glass is half empty rather than half full? If this is you and you’re fed up of being accused of being a misery, then take heart according to scientists it’s not your fault. They have discovered a happiness gene. This particular gene makes you happy or gloomy depending on how long it is. If the gene you have [...]

Well I guess if you are not an astronaut who has been locked away in outer space for some considerable time or lost deep in the heart of the Amazon jungle then I am pretty sure you will have read or heard about the health benefits of eating five portions of fruit and veg a day. Well it now appears that this statement is just not true when it comes to a high level defense [...]

Although human trials will be needed to develop the drug further it would appear that Researchers at Durham University doing research into Inherited Degenerative disorders caused by mutations in LMNA (common name Lamin A/C) gene have discovered a drug that will help DNA damaged by time repair its-self. “This is an important step to helping children and older people live less debilitating lives,” said their chief researcher, Professor Chris Hutchinson. They now hope it can [...]