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, [...]

Well back in June 2009 I posted about the benefits eating dark chocolate given to those who suffered from high blood pressure. In the post I wrote of how I had tried eating the chocolate to see if the claim was true. It turned out to be just that (true) it did actually lower my slightly raised blood pressure and has continued to do so. Well, it is now February 2010 almost eight months later [...]

Eating your way out of depression has been a topic of some discussion for many years now and it would not be wrong to think there are many everyday foods out there that can help us do just that. With this in mind I would like to discuss yet another ‘we are what we eat’ claim. Scientists have researched another healthy eating claim for depression. It appears that eating a Mediterranean diet could reduce the [...]

Vitamins do more harm than good according to experts. Apparently a review of 67 studies found no convincing evidence that antioxidant supplements help to increase life, but there is a possibility they could act in reverse and shorten life expectancy. It would appear that experts have stated that Beta-carotene, vitamin A and vitamin E given singly or combined with other antioxidant supplements significantly increase mortality.” However, Vitamin C did not appear to have any effect [...]