What may protect female breasts against cancer, improve semen quality in men, increase levels of melatonin, fight oxidative stress, that you can buy over the counter and it tastes great with a dollop of honey on it?

I have been saying for years that we can live younger, and here’s proof. This amazing study examined patient data of 18,670 participants in the Cooper Center Longitudinal Study. This comprised 250,000 medical records, which were meticulously maintained over a 40-year span. This information was then compared with the patients' Medicare claims filed from ages 70 to 85. The researchers’ analyses of the data clearly showed that if you increase your fitness in mid-life by 20%, you decrease your risk of severe illness in your 70s and 80s by 20%. You get less heart disease, colon cancer, even Alzheimer’s disease, in [...]

I love popcorn. I love to sit at the movies and much away. But perhaps there are healthier ways to get popped corn into you. Why should you care? The flavor ingredient, diacetyl, that gives the distinctive buttery flavor and aroma to movie and to microwaved popcorn has been found to amplify the damaging effects of the nasty brain protein linked to Alzheimer’s disease. It’s also found in some margarines, snack foods, candy, baked goods, pet foods, and other products. In other words, fake buttery flavor isn’t brain friendly. In fact, at the factory where workers in the microwave popcorn and [...]

In the far reaches of Mongolia, Harvard researchers worked together with local health researchers, diligently looking for an inexpensive treatment that might reduce respiratory infections in kids during the winter months. In children who tested low in their blood levels of vitamin D at the beginning of the winter, supplementing with vitamin D cut the risk of getting lung infections in half. The amount of vitamin D used in the study was 300 IU. Since this study was run, the U.S. Institute of Medicine has raised the recommended dosage for most children up to 400 IU and even up to 1000 [...]