[DudeAsInCool]

Nothing to wine about

A DIET recommending you eat 100g of chocolate a day and drink red wine, which will add six years to your life - is this for real?
Scientists in Australia and The Netherlands have come up with a diet they claim will cut a person's risk of heart disease by 78 per cent.

And the good news is, you'll want to be on it.

The diet focuses on seven foods that have been proven to reduce cholesterol and blood pressure.

It involves daily consumption of 150ml of red wine, which has been found to cut heart disease risk by 32 per cent.

Chocaholics line up, because you have to consume 100g of dark chocolate per day, an amount the scientists calculate will reduce blood pressure.

You have to eat four meals of fish each week (each 114g), which is said to reduce your heart disease risk by 14 per cent.

The diet also includes a daily total of 400g of fruit and vegetables, also proven to cut blood pressure, and 68g of almonds to cut cholesterol.

You also have to consume 2.7g of garlic per day to reduce your cholesterol levels.

In a paper published in the British Medical Journal, scientists claim that if all these foods are combined in a diet they will lower the risk of heart disease by 78 per cent.

The research shows men who stuck to this diet would gain an extra six years of life and have an extra nine years free from heart disease.

Women would gain an extra 4.8 years of life and have an extra eight years without heart disease.

The proponents, including Anna Peeters from Monash University, claim the only adverse effects from the diet would be body odour from the garlic and raised mercury levels if more than the recommended amount of fish was eaten each week.

But they don't calculate whether it will help you lose weight.

And they warn that extra alcohol above that prescribed by the diet could reduce the effectiveness of the diet.

They say you can add extra ingredients to the diet to boost its effectiveness, including olive oil, soy beans, tomatoes, oat bran, cereals, nuts, tea and chickpeas.

http://www.news.com....9-13762,00.html

[DudeAsInCool]

Exercise, Healthy Diet with Fish Slow Memory Loss

http://news.yahoo.co...hl_nm/ageing_dc

[Malicious Intent]

The chocolate diet sounds nicer than fish

[DudeAsInCool]

Vitamin C injections could combat cancer

High doses of vitamin C injected into the bloodstream may be effective at combating cancer, new research suggests.

Scientists found that vitamin C in the form of ascorbate killed cancer cells in the laboratory.

But the effective dose was so high it could only be delivered to patients by infusion into the bloodstream.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/arti...in_page_id=1798

[method77]

Perhaps it's true but too much vitamin C kills. Dying from something else is the same thing isn't it?

[Ken]

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but too much vitamin C kills.

But the dose in this case, and the way it's administered doesn't kill you.

[DudeAsInCool]

Green tea component may fight Alzheimer's: study


WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An ingredient in green tea that researchers think might fight cancer may also protect the brain from the memory-destroying Alzheimer's disease, a study released on Tuesday said.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050920/hl_nm/...HNlYwMlJVRPUCUl

[Redneck4sure]

I wonder if the diet will add 6 yrs to your life if you are about 2 weeks away from being dead with old age. I may give it a try.......

[DudeAsInCool]

Redneck4sure, on Sep 20 2005, 11:40 PM, said:

I wonder if the diet will add 6 yrs to your life if you are about 2 weeks away from being dead with old age. I may give it a try.......

You may have to

http://unclebob.diar.../050920_43.html

[DudeAsInCool]

Exercise could build brain cells in elderly, study suggests

Older mice that exercised on a running wheel developed new brain cells and learned a new task more effectively than older mice that took it easy all day, a study reports today.


The study showed that regular physical activity helped spur the production of neurons in the memory region of the mouse brain. If the findings hold true for humans, they suggest that regular workouts might give older humans a boost in brainpower and might even help forestall the forgetfulness and confusion that can plague people as they get older, says researcher Fred Gage of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, Ca.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2005-0...ain-cells_x.htm

[rainbowdemon]

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You have to eat four meals of fish each week (each 114g), which is said to reduce your heart disease risk by 14 per cent.

If it's breaded and deep-fried, and covered with tartar sauce, that would kind of piss it away!! But that's the way fish is the best.

[Shawn]

method77, on Sep 13 2005, 11:16 AM, said:

Perhaps it's true but too much vitamin C kills.

Wasn't it here I read that injecting vitamin c straight to the blood stream killed cancer in lab tests?

[DudeAsInCool]

Shawn, on Sep 22 2005, 04:58 PM, said:

Wasn't it here I read that injecting vitamin c straight to the blood stream killed cancer in lab tests?

The article is in this thread...

[Shawn]

d'oh

[DudeAsInCool]

Eating fish regularly delays dementia: study

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Eating fish at least once a week slows the toll aging takes on the brain, while obesity at midlife doubles the risk of dementia, a pair of studies concluded on Monday.
Omega-3 fatty acids contained in fish have been shown to boost brain functioning as well as cutting the risk of stroke, and eating fish regularly appears to protect the brain as people age, the six-year study of Chicago residents said.

"The rate of (mental) decline was reduced by 10 percent to 13 percent per year among persons who consumed one or more fish meals per week compared with those with less than weekly consumption," wrote Martha Clare Morris of Rush University Medical Center in Chicago.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051010/hl_nm/...HNlYwN5bmNhdA--