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Nutrition is perhaps the most important longevity factor. What we eat and how much we eat can either add or subtract years from our lives. Choosing well will have us feeling better right now and years in the future.
The Mediterranean Diet and Diabetes Prevention
The Mediterranean Diet can help prevent diabetes. Rich in olive oil, vegetables and nuts, the Mediterranean Diet may not only help prevent cancer and heart disease, but type II diabetes as well. Learn how the Mediterranean Diet can help you fight diabetes and increase your longevity.
Mediterranean Diet Increases Life Expectancy
The Mediterranean Diet is becoming one of the most popular diets for longevity and life expectancy. How much can the Mediterranean Diet increase life expectancy? Researchers looked at a large study to discover the impact of the Mediterranean Diet on life expectancy and longevity.
Eating Eggs and Life Expectancy
Eggs are sometimes good for you and sometimes not. Right now, they are not good for you again. Men who eat more than 7 eggs a week have a greater chance of dying over a 20-year period.
Fasting, Mormons and Life Expectancy
Mormons have great longevity and they fast regularly - could there be a connection? Fasting could help reset the metabolism, change how the body uses fat or even reset the metabolism. Could a monthly fast be part of a healthy lifestyle?
Healthy Chocolate -- Health Benefits of Chocolate
Chocolate is one of the world's favorite foods. Recent research shows that eating moderate amounts of dark chocolate also brings health benefits to your heart. The antioxidants in dark chocolate protect your heart against aging, damage and heart disease.
Foods With the Most Antioxidants
Antioxidants are substances in plants that our body can use to repair damage to our cells. Antioxidants help prevent illnesses and reduce the effects of aging. Some plants contain more antioxidants than others. See the top 20 common foods with the highest antioxidant levels.
Foods for Living Longer and Better
These foods and drinks will help your body fight off the damage caused by aging. Just work them into your daily and weekly meal plans and you'll be getting extra vitamins, antioxidants and other substances that will help your body fight age-related illnesses. Start today!
Health Benefits of Drinking Extra Water in Doubt
All that bottled, spring and filtered water we drink has to be good for us, right? Turns out that research has a hard time proving that drinking extra water makes a difference to your health. Sure, we hear that 8 glasses of water a day flushes out toxins, clears the skin, prevents headaches and more -- but science just can't find any evidence for those claims.
What are DHA and EPA Omega-3 Fatty Acids?
Omega-3s found in fish oils have been linked to improving cardiovascular and even mental health. EPA and DHA are the two most important for longevity. You can get them from fish oils and supplements. Try to incorporate these into your weekly nutrition to get the maximum benefit.
Fish Versus Fish Oil Capsules
Fish oils are good for your heart. They provide omega-3 fatty acids that help keep your cardiovascular system healthy. You can find them in oily fish, but now you can also find them in fish oil supplements. This study reveals, for the first time, if the supplements are as good at providing heart health benefits as the real thing.
Lycopene and Tomatoes
Lycopene is a substance in tomatoes that has received a lot of attention. This substance might help prevent age-related disease, but this is yet to be proven. What we do know, is that tomatoes are good for you. Until more research is done, avoid lycopene supplements and stick to real tomatoes.
Ginkgo Biloba and Memory
Ginkgo biloba is one of the most popular herbal supplements. It has been praised for helping with memory, brain aging and countless other uses, but what is the real story behind ginkgo biloba?
Selenium Supplements and Longevity
Selenium (Se) is a supplement gaining in popularity for healthy aging. Some of the reputation of selenium comes from its effectiveness for reducing the risk of prostate cancer in men with low levels of selenium. Benefits of selenium supplements for people with normal levels of selenium are unclear. Find out more about the uses of selenium.
Green Tea and Longevity
Green tea is an ancient drink for good health and longevity. The antioxidant benefits of daily consumption of green tea are well known.
Benefits of Eating Slowly
We all eat too fast - but what are the benefits of slowing down? Could we lose weight, digest better and make better food choices just by slowing down?
The Best Types of Fish for Health
Fish are a great source of protein and healthy fats - but certain types of fish have high levels of mercury. Learn the best types of fish for eating regularly and how much fish to eat each week.
Top 10 Painless Ways to Lose Weight
Weight loss can be filled with struggle and suffering -- but it doesn't have to be that way. By changing how and where we eat, we can reduce our daily calories significantly. Do these ten things for a month and they will become a habit.
The Michael Pollan Diet -- 9 Principles for Healthy Eating
Eating used to be simple. We ate food. Now we must choose between a sea of nutrients and products in order to try to get the right combination. Michael Pollan takes us back to the simple eating of the past with his 9 Principles for Healthy Eating.
Taste Chocolate
Learning to taste and eat chocolate is a lot like wine tasting. By appreciating the finer qualities of chocolate, we can learn to be satisfied with a little bit of high quality, healthy, dark chocolate instead of lots of unhealthy milk or white chocolate.
How to Slow Down Your Eating
Learn this simple technique to slow down your eating, eat less and lose weight.
Grocery Shop for Longevity
The foods we buy impact how long we live. Learn to grocery shop for a long, healthy life.
Food for Thought: Brain Nutrition for Mental Fitness and Health
Your brain needs a supply of special molecules, called essential fatty acids, to function at its best. Current research suggests that a certain type of essential fatty acids, called omega-3, can help your brain. Eat walnuts, wilds salmon, olive oil and flaxseed to get these essential nutrients.
What is the Best Nut?
Nuts are good for you -- they are made up of healthy fats and help fight aging through antioxidants. Of all the nuts, the walnut may be the single best nut for health.
Learn to Love Cooking
Cooking is an essential skill for longevity. It is only by cooking that you can truly know what is going in your food and maximize your eating so that you live long and healthy. You don't have to cook every meal, but you should learn to love to cook.
Can Folic Acid Improve Longevity?
Folic acid is a form of Vitamin B which is obtained from leafy green vegetables. It is an essential ingredient for cell growth and division. It is thought that a diet high in folic acid may prevent cancer and prevent mental deterioration with aging. It may also be called folate or Vitamin B9. Folic acid has been shown to reduce levels of homocysteine, thereby decreasing heart attack risk.
Calorie Restriction and Longevity
Calorie restriction is thought to be a method to increase life span through reducing the total number of calories consumed everyday. Calories restriction has been shown to increase life span in rats and other animals. It is unknown how effective it might be in increasing human life span.
How Do Fish Oils Help Longevity?
Fish oils are a major source of age increasing omega-3 fatty acids. These help everything from cardiovascular health to brain protection.
How Does Red Wine Boost Longevity?
Red wine has been reported to have a multitude of health benefits. Over 400 scientific studies support some benefit to red wine. Studies giving mice incredibly amounts of some of the components of red wine show tremendous benefits in protecting against unhealthy eating habits.
Flavonoids
Flavonoids are one of the best ways to reduce the impact of time on your body. Eat lots of richly colored vegetables and you will be doing your body a favor.

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