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AGING SLOWED WITH VARIED EXERCISE
An eight – year study published in Circulation in August 2005, researchers from John Hopkins evaluated changes in aerobic capacity --- the amount of oxygen consumed during exercise---in 810 people ages 18 to 87. On average, that declined 3 to 6 percent per decade during people’s 20s and 30s and more than 20 percent during their 70s and beyond . People with low aerobic capacity tend to walk slowly, tire easily, and have trouble exercising---all of which makes it harder to remain independent. However, this study indicates that doing regular aerobic exercise such as brisk walking or cycling , can partly of every fully prevent those declines.
ANGIOPLASTY
A recent study found that re-blockage rates were 48 percent lower in patients who took a daily multivitamin containing B vitamins.
COLON CANCER
Calcium may prevent colon cancer. Studies show that even after colon polyps are found, calcium can reduce the incidence of recurrence and carcinoma of the colon by 49 percent. Also, calcium helps control weight
DEPRESSION
St. John’s wort fights mild to moderate depression. 90 percent of the treatment failures were attributable to inadequate dosing or inadequate preparations. Ideally, 300 mg should be taken three times daily.
In a study done by Dr. Andrew Stoll MD. Participants in the study took up to 14 capsules of EPA Fish oil a day. It was a placebo-controlled study of 30 people with manic-depressive illness. The fish oil capsules had a marked mood-stabilizing effect.
12 patents who had major depressive episodes lasting up to 96 weeks, 10 of whom were resistant to drug therapy, walked on a treadmill for 30 minutes a day for 10 days and half had a significant improvement in depression scores during the study period.
EYE PROBLEMS
PREVENTING CATARACTS AND MACULAR DEGENERATION
Vitamin C 1000 mg. 3 times a day Lutein 20 mg a day Bilberry 80 mg 2 X a day
PARKINSON’S DISEASE
A recent study at 10 US medical centers, eighty patients with early Parkinson’s disease (PD) who were not being treated with medications took either a chewable wafer containing Coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10) at doses of 300 mg, 600 mg or 1,200 mg a day. Or a placebo for up to 16 months. By the end of the study, researchers found that a daily dose of 1,200 mg of CoQ10 helped slow the progression of PD by 44 percent compared to the placebo. (Archives of Neurology Oct. 2002)
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