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Mediterranean Diet Improves Survival in Elderly

Posted: Thursday, September 30, 2004

Among 70- to 90-year-olds, adherence to a Mediterranean diet and healthful lifestyle is associated with a more than 50% lower rate of all-cause and cause-specific mortality.

Exercise Stalls Effects of Aging on the Heart

Posted: Wednesday, September 22, 2004

The pumping ability of the Masters athletes' hearts was the same as that of the younger adults less than half their age. "It appears that lifelong exercise training completely prevented the stiffening of the heart muscle that has been thought to be an inevitable consequence of aging. We found that it is aging in addition to being sedentary,"

Exercise, Diet Cut Diabetes Risk in Sedentary Men

Posted: Wednesday, September 22, 2004

Vigorous exercise - half-hour-long sessions three times per week - alone lowered glucose levels by 13 percent and insulin levels by 20 percent.

A Daily Walk Prevents Diabetes By As Much As 80%

Posted: Thursday, September 16, 2004

Ten Year study shows that just a half an hour's walking a day can almost eradicate the risk of developing diabetes.

Intermittent Exercise Better Than Continuous

Posted: Tuesday, September 07, 2004

New research from the University of Missouri-Columbia suggests intermittent exercise is more effective at lowering artery-blocking fat in the bloodstream than continuous exercise when exercising just 30 minutes.

New Study Shows Walking Reduces Risk of Diabetes

Posted: Tuesday, September 07, 2004

Researchers at Glasgow Universitybelieve 30 minutes of moderate exercise or walking every day could significantly reduce the risk of getting Type 2 diabetes.Although people with a parent who has Type 2 diabetes are three times more likely to get the condition themselves, the study found that taking part in regular exercise could make significant changes to the metabolism to reduce this risk.

Too Many Fluids as Bad as Too Few

Posted: Thursday, August 19, 2004

Hydration and dehydration are important factors for people with diabetes. Water and sports drinks, the new message is to drink wisely. Too many fluids are at least as dangerous as too few,

Calorie Restriction Reduces Risk of MI, Stroke and Diabetes

Posted: Tuesday, August 17, 2004

People who restrict their caloric intake drastically reduce their risk of developing diabetes or atherosclerosis.

In fact, according to researchers some risk factors were so low they were comparable with those of people decades younger.

Occasional Physical Activity Increases Longevity

Posted: Tuesday, August 17, 2004

Staying physically active during the golden years may help seniors live longer, according to a team of Swedish researchers.

They found that men and women aged 65 years and older who engaged in even occasional physical activity during their leisure time were much less likely to die during a 12-year period than their sedentary peers

Work-Time Physical Activity Can Reduce Mortality in Diabetic

Posted: Thursday, August 05, 2004

Physical activity on the job had as big an effect as leisure-time workouts in reducing deaths from heart disease among patients with Type 2 diabetes.
Compared with subjects who sat at a desk most of the day, subjects engaged in heavy manual labor were 40% less likely to die from any cause or from CVD in particular.