Live Younger Now!

“Getting active may be good for your brain.  In a study of over 1,300 adults, researchers learned that those who exercised moderately in midlife were 39 percent less likely than others to have mild impairment, a state between dementia and the normal mental decline that happens with age.  And participants who did moderate exercise later in life, the odds of having the condition dropped by 32 percent.  Another study found that high-intensity exercise helped adults with mild cognitive impairment improve their condition more than a stretching program did.”  (Archives of Neurology, January 2010

This study of 3055 postmenopausal women (aged 50–70 y) assessed serum vitamin D [25(OH)D] and potential predictors of 25(OH)D levels. 57.1% of the women had deficient levels of 25(OH)D. Calendar season, waist circumference, physical activity, race-ethnicity, sun exposure, and age were variable predictors of of vita…min D status but vitamin D intake from diet and supplements accounted for the greatest amount of explainable variation.

Surf the Web.  Older people who began to spend time roaming around the Internet experienced improvements in mental activity in as little as a couple of days.  After seven days of doing Internet searches for an hour a day, the MRI brain scans of participants without prior Internet experience showed greater mental activity during Web browsing than they had at the study’s start. (Presentation at the Society for Neurosciences annual meeting)

“If you get migraines with auras–marked by symptoms like a numbness over your body or flashing lights that could your vision-take warning: They could raise your risk of a stroke.  In an analysis of nine studies, researchers found that people, particularly women, whose migraines come with neurological symptoms had twice the risk for stroke as those who get migraines without auras.  Being 45 years old or younger, smoking, and taking oral contraceptives all raise the risk even higher.  According to the study’s authors, young women who get migraines with auras should stop smoking and consider switching to another from birth control if they’re on the pill.” -Feb 10 – Diabetes Forecast.

“People on a low-calorie, low fat diet reported being in better spirits after a year than those who tried a low-carbohydrate plan with the same number of calories.  The overweight and obese people in both groups lost about 30 lbs. on average; no difference was observed in their memory or mental acuity.  Researchers suspect that the glum dieters were bummed by trying to stick to a low-carb diet in a society laden with bread and pasta.  Another possibility is that carb intake may affect the release of mood-altering serotonin in the brain.”  Source:Archives of Internal Medicine, Nov. 2009. For more information on clinically proven supplemented diet plans click here.