Living To 150

My LDL cholesterl is even higher than last year. However, this time a VAP test reveals that many of these LDL particles are the worse, smaller kinds, which are more of a heart risk.

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The latest anti-wrinkle potion has hit the shelves. From US company 3Lab, “Super h Serum” centres on three ingredients.

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Review of my exercise regime: My exercise regime a year ago was not great. I used to play racquetball once a week, and that had stopped. Now I had to make changes.

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A high level of sugar in the diet correlates with Metabolic Syndrome, diabetes, cancer and heart disease. So we ought to cut down dramaticallly – right? Well, I did – read more.

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I reduced the amount of food I cooked at high temperatures. This was to avoid glycation. For example, I substituted frying my salmon for poaching or steaming it.

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The poison – Acrylamide – is also in Tesco own label ‘hoops’, Hula Hoops and Duchy Original Crisps.
Acrylamide has the "potential to cause cancer even at very low levels of exposure". The Food Standards Agency (FSA) has been studying the levels of acrylamide in common foods for 3 years. It has been tricky for [...]

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Antioxidants have been recognized as vital for good health since the early 1980s. However, one class of antioxidant is particularly beneficial: the poyphenols.
Polyphenols are particularly beneficial for reducing the risk of heart disease as well as for reducing aging tendencies in general.
Professor Williamson, Professor of Function Foods at Leeds University, has published a list [...]

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Following the most recent change I made to my diet – cutting back on food cooked at high-temperature – I lost 2 inches off my waist.
This was not intentional and I don’t know why this effect would occur: but it was the only thing that I changed.
The reason I cut down on “high temperature food” [...]

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Drug companies researching Alzheimer’s Disease have focused on two of the probably causes involving the presence of the two proteins beta-amyloid and tau. 
It is thought that beta-amyloid may well be the starting point of Alzheimer’s. Two drugs aimed at this protein have, after considerable research, been dumped. another drug being developed by a Scottish [...]

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Avoiding facial wrinkles is a big issue for many people – especially many women. Some resort to extreme measures such as injecting toxins into the skin – Botox – or surgical operations.
However, this ignores the main functional problem produced by  wrinkles; they don’t just affect the face, but affect the whole body. In fact, [...]

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