Category Archives: Nutrition

Leading a Long and Cognitively Strong Life

July 28, 2007 – 1:00 pm

Adding years to your life depends on many things – good genes are a start, but certain lifestyle habits can have quite a significant impact. Living longer is one thing, and living a cognitively strong life can be quite another. Health and Medical magazines have long touted the benefits of certain healthy behaviors for body [...]

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Your memory: 5 ways to keep it sharp

February 22, 2007 – 12:04 pm

Consumer report has 5 tips on keeping your memory sharp, which includes computer based brain games. All great tips which we strongly recommend. Read here  

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Coffee has its benefits

January 10, 2007 – 4:32 pm

Here is an article by Dr. Rallie McAllister on the positives of coffee. “Coffee may have even greater benefits on the human brain, protecting it from degenerative disorders that lead to dementia. Recent studies suggest that habitual coffee drinkers have a lower risk for Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease than individuals who abstain” Read the full [...]

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Resolve to Exercise Your Brain

January 3, 2007 – 3:48 pm

The Alliance for Aging Research is encouraging Americans to boost their brain health. “There is a lot we can do to keep our brains healthy and potentially prevent or lessen the cognitive decline that often comes with aging,” Daniel Perry, executive director of the nonprofit Alliance for Aging Research” You can see the full article [...]

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Nestlé foods and your brain

November 22, 2006 – 12:14 pm

Here is an interesting post over at Brain Ready on how the large consumer food group Nestlé is looking into brain health. Nestle is entering into a five-year research effort with an esteemed research branch of the Swiss government, the EPFL Brain Mind Institute,  to study, “the role nutrition plays in children’s brain development to identifying ways of [...]

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Super foods and a healthier life

November 14, 2006 – 7:59 pm

Here is an interesting article from AOL Health on super foods and a healthier life. The article includes one of the best super foods, blueberries: These amazing berries are on anyone’s list of super foods. Recent research shows that they’re brain food — feeding blueberries to rats actually slows their age-related mental decline For more [...]

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Red Wine Molecule Extends Lifespan Of Mice

November 13, 2006 – 8:04 am

Researchers at Harvard Medical School have used a single compound to increase the lifespan of obese mice. The study found that the drug reversed nearly all of the changes in gene expression patterns found in mice on high calorie diets–some of which are associated with diabetes, heart disease, and other significant diseases related to obesity. [...]

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