Living To 150

With cardio exercise you stretch yourself moderately for half an hour or so 3 times a week which makes the heart and lungs smaller. NOT GOOD!!

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Heart disease research has taken a step forward because of a new technique. This technique is not only kinder to animals, but is much cheaper in use and so it means more research can be done.

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A girl who had in the UK who had a third of her heart removed as a baby has made a full recovery.
Now 10 years old, a MRI scan can not even detect scar tissue anywhere on the heart.
Kirsty Collier was born with abnormal blood vessels which caused her serious heart problems [...]

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While smallpox, measles and HIV recede in many areas of the world, the diseases of Western society – including diabetes – are about to hit them hard.
Thanks to the arrival of of fast food culture in these countries many of the poor can now afford MacDonald’s and other similar high calorie, low nutrition, food. [...]

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Many of us don’t want animals to be used at all in research – even if we will thereby live longer; however, at the same time, we do want the medical advances which such research allows.
Better medical treatment of Alzheimers Disease or cancer, for example would be most welcome – especially if it was needed [...]

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Claudia Castillo suffered from tuberculosis for years, until a major trauma happened this year – a collapse of part of her windpipe leading to the left lung.
At fist, surgeons thought she would have to have her left lung removed in a life-threatening operation. However in a breakthrough for longevity, a [...]

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Every year sees an increase in life expectancy, and this rate of increase is accelerating.
For example, in the UK. Between 1981-91. Life expectancy for a 65-year-old man increased by 1.6 months. During the following decade it increased by 1.8 months. Between 1995 and 2005 the increase was 2.3 months.
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/cci/nugget.asp?id=168
Will You Be Alive In [...]

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The latest "Statins Beat Heart Attack" headlines would be wryly funny if they weren’t so tragic.
Short sighted journalists are fooled by profit-hungry drug companies who, as often seems to be the case, are driving partisan research chemists.
"Statins Reduce Heart Attacks"
This is not news, and it is not even surprising. Anything which reduces general inflammation [...]

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Scientists have ‘modified’ tomatoes to make them purple. They have done this by modifying them genetically such that they contain anthocyanins. 
Anthocyanins are a type of a class of substance called flavonoids, which show anti-oxidant activity. Flavonoids produce yellow, red or blue colouration in flowers and fruit. They also offer protection against insects and microbes. [...]

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Taking aspirin for heart disease prevention has been a standard recommendation for some time. Although aspirin is known to make internal bleeding more likely – notably where there is ulceration of the stomach – we have been told that the dangers are outweighed by the benefits.
New research now questions whether the preventive aspect of taking [...]

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