Vitamins are essential to every part of our body’s functioning. In other words, if you want to live a long time and have a good quality of life, you need to make sure you’re fully stocked. There’s even been research (https://www.pnas.org/content/115/43/10836) into what are known as longevity vitamins, specifically looking at their long-term impact. Not […]
We use the word “community” in lots of contexts when it comes to health. We might mean the people who live in the same area, we might mean the scientific or medical communities and whether they generally agree about a certain health topic, or we might mean all of the people who suffer from a
When you’ve been injured or ill, especially with something as physically and mentally draining as cancer, the road to recovery can be a long one. The disease permeates every aspect of your life, so your recovery process has to do the same. Sometimes you might feel too tired to do anything. Fatigue is a common
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Among the endless litany of advice regarding a healthy lifestyle, there are two things that constantly recur. You need to eat a balanced diet, and you need to exercise regularly. Only do one, and you’re limiting the progress you can make. Luckily, the two of them can feed into each other, with what you eat
There’s no one specific food that you can eat to improve your flexibility. There are, however, foods that can help you take care of the parts of your body that you need to be flexible. If you take care of your muscles, bones, tendons, ligaments and joints, it’s going to be easier to stay mobile.
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Injuries are one of the great banes of any sportsman. Being able to achieve and maintain the highest levels of performance is only possible when your body is fit and able. Unfortunately, any kind of exercise comes with the risk of damage. Any effective training program needs to focus not just on improving performance, but
Being able to move isn’t just about being fast or keeping up for a long time. If you want to be in the best physical shape, your mobility also needs to be good. That means your range of movement needs to be large and your joints must extend properly. One of the best ways to
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If your goal is to improve your performance on a daily basis, you need some way of tracking your progress. Sport isn’t just about what you do; it’s also about measuring it. You might even need to carry out some statistical analysis. Lots of research has been carried out to try to figure out the
Technically, longevity is about how long we can expect to live in relation to everyone else. It’s our average lifespan. Of course, living a long time doesn’t mean a lot without a decent quality of life. You want to be healthy, and you want to keep looking and feeling good for as long as possible.
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What do Okinawa in Japan, Ovodda in Sardinia and Loma Linda in the U.S. have in common? They’re on three different continents with different languages and cultures, each living in different ways. There’s just one thing that these communities share: they’re places with a particularly high life expectancy (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7250675.stm). Let’s look at Loma Linda first.
