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NEW YORK, May 23, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- A balanced and healthy diet is crucial to good health and overcoming stress. In his forthcoming book called entitled Stress Pandemic, lifestyle and stress expert Paul Huljich shares a simple and holistic approach to nutrition, paying added attention to the effects of what we eat on our neurochemistry. "Ensuring that we are supporting a healthy neurochemical balance is a vital and proactive step toward managing our stress," Mr. Hulijch...
Age management medicine giant, Cenegenics® Medical Institute, delivers user-friendly, convenient apps for patients, helping them improve lifestyle habits Las Vegas, NV (PRWEB) May 17, 2012 Cenegenics Living Online (CLO), an online fitness/nutrition tracking program that helps patients stay in sync with their customized healthy aging program goals, now has a mobile app for Android and Apple phones, announced Cenegenics® Medical Institute, the global leader in age management...
When you eat might be as important as what you eat when it comes to weight gain. That's the conclusion of a study reported in the Cell Press journal Cell Metabolism published online on May 17th. A new study shows, when mice on a high-fat diet are restricted to eating for eight hours per day, they eat as much as those who eat around the clock, yet they are protected against obesity and other metabolic ills. The discovery proposes that the health effects of a poor diet may result in part...
Could a compound found in red wine and red grapes change the course of the illness? A national, phase II clinical trial examining the effects of resveratrol on individuals with mild to moderate dementia due to Alzheimer's disease has begun as more than two dozen academic institutions recruit volunteers in the coming months. R. Scott Turner, M.D., Ph.D., director of Georgetown University Medical Center's Memory Disorders Program, is the lead investigator for the national study....
IRVINE, Calif., May 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- "I want a Victoria's Secret model body and a little added 'lift' to my butt," requested Natalie Pack, as if she was sitting on Santa's knee. The current Miss CA USA 2012, Pack, is a Southern CA native, a model since the age of 13, and a student at the University of California, Irvine. Her primary focus is preparing for the upcoming Miss USA Pageant, to be aired June 3rd on NBC. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120514/LA06146...
New research reinforces the claim that resveratrol—a compound found in plants and food groups, notably red wine—prolongs lifespan and health-span by boosting the activity of mitochondria, the cell's energy supplier. "The results were surprisingly clear," said David Sinclair, a professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School and the study's senior author. "Without the mitochondria-boosting gene SIRT1, resveratrol does not work." Over the last decade, Sinclair and colleagues including...
Scientists at Joslin Diabetes Center have identified a key mechanism of action for the TOR (target of rapamycin) protein kinase, a critical regulator of cell growth which plays a major role in illness and aging. This finding not only illuminates the physiology of aging but could lead to new treatments to increase lifespan and control age-related conditions, such as cancer, type 2 diabetes, and neurodegeneration. Over the past decade, studies have shown that inhibiting TOR activity, which...
Salk scientists find that a long-overlooked protein may be the gateway to the storage and burning of fat Humans are built to hunger for fat, packing it on during times of feast and burning it during periods of famine. But when deluged by foods rich in fat and sugar, the modern waistline often far exceeds the need to store energy for lean times, and the result has been an epidemic of diabetes, heart disease and other obesity-related problems. Now, scientists at the Salk Institute for...
LA JOLLA, Calif., April 24, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Humans are built to hunger for fat, packing it on during times of feast and burning it during periods of famine. But when deluged by foods rich in fat and sugar, the modern waistline often far exceeds the need to store energy for lean times, and the result has been an epidemic of diabetes, heart disease and other obesity-related problems. Now, scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies have identified the...
FINDINGS: The drug rapamycin has been shown to extend lifespan in lab animals, yet rapamycin has also been linked to impaired glucose tolerance and insulin sensitivity, two hallmarks of diabetes. By teasing apart rapamycin's activity at the cellular level, researchers at Whitehead Institute and the University of Pennsylvania have determined that inhibiting only the protein cluster known as the mechanistic target of rapamycin complex 1 (mTORC1) prolongs life in mice without adversely affecting...
