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Can Bad Vision Shorten Your Life?
9/18/2007	The loss of vision can affect how long you live, according to a recent study. This means that if you suffer from cataracts or age-related macular degeneration, there is an increased likelihood that you will die sooner than later. That’s the bad news. The good news is that these visual impairments are addressable to a considerable degree, and therefore, presumably, taking care of your eyes may enable you to prolong your life. Read More...
High-Glycemic Diet May Lead to Blindness
9/18/2007	A new study has found that high-glycemic diets, consisting of the type of carbohydrates that most Americans eat, increase the risk for age-related macular degeneration. This disease alters the inner lining of the eye, known as the macula area of the retina, causing thinning, atrophy, and in some cases bleeding. As it progresses, macular degeneration robs people of their central vision—the type of vision required to see fine details, such as the letters in these words or the features of a child’s face. In fact, macular degeneration is the leading cause of irreversible blindness. Read More...
Turmeric May Preserve Memory By Boosting Immunity
9/18/2007	Alzheimer’s disease, the devastating, progressive brain-wasting disease that is approaching epidemic proportions among the elderly in the United States and other Western nations, strikes four times fewer people in rural India. The reason(s) for this remarkable differential are being vigorously investigated, but a prime suspect at this point is curry, the spice that is ubiquitous in Indian and other South Asian cooking, but which rarely makes it out of the local Indian restaurant in the US—except perhaps among people of South Asian origin. According to South Asian folklore and Indian Ayurvedic medical tradition, curry powder, among its other qualities, has the ability to preserve memory and clear thinking long into old age. New scientific research is confirming what many South Asians have known since antiquity. Read More...
Glycemic Control Improves Acne
9/18/2007	Acne (a.k.a. pimples, spots, or zits) has been the scourge of adolescence since time immemorial, affecting as many as 85% of teenagers at one time or another. As far back as ancient Egypt, history records several pharaohs who were afflicted with acne. The word itself derives from the ancient Greek word for “point” or “peak” — apparently a corruption of the word “acme.” Treatments for acne have ranged from the ancient Roman solution of hot, sulfurous baths to laxatives for “chastity pimples,” to the more recent introduction of antibiotics and other drugs. Read More...
More Evidence That Cinnamon Lowers Blood Sugar
9/18/2007	High blood sugar is strongly associated with insulin resistance, a precursor condition to type 2 diabetes. In fact, preserving insulin sensitivity may be a key to longevity. So when we receive new information substantiating that cinnamon can help lower blood sugar, it is time for you to pay even more attention, and bring more of this spice into your life. Read More...
CGMP Will Rule Us . . . Find Us . . . and in the Darkness, Bind Us
9/18/2007	Thirteen years after Congress delegated the creation of “current good manufacturing practices” (CGMP) for the nutritional supplement industry to the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, the FDA has delivered its “Final Rule.” But this rule is not in accordance with the provisions of the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA) or the intent of Congress. Read More...
Take Vitamin D Supplements Instead of Sunbathing
3/1/2006	Vitamin D confers important benefits, not the least of which is its role in building and maintaining stronger bones. In fact, calcium—as valuable as it is—without supplemental vitamin D is simply nowhere near as effective. So while you can increase your production of vitamin D by sunbathing, don’t do it! According to a Boston dermatologist, this is like taking up smoking to lose weight. While it actually may help a little, the down side is a greatly increased risk of disease, morbidity, and death. Sunbathing can be deadly too, all the more so if you’re fair skinned. Read More...
Support the Health Freedom Protection Act!
3/1/2006	Through your subscription to Life Enhancement’s HealthExtra e-letter, you have declared your passion for the most pressing health issues of our day. Accordingly, I am reaching out to ask for your help on a legislative solution to protect your right to receive quality health information by putting a muzzle on the FDA, an agency that has refused to protect our right to free speech. While guaranteed by the First Amendment, the FDA has repetitively placed their myopic interests above the supreme law of the Constitution by censoring nutrient-disease treatment information. This shameless behavior deprives us of what is vital not only to our own health—and that of our loved ones—but for the entire Nation as well. And so we must act. Read More...
*The Power of Essential* Phospholipids**
2/1/2006	It may be a philosophical cliché, but it applies as much to living, breathing bodies as it does to spiritual quests: in our endless pursuit of the “secret of life,” the final answer is no obscure herb or bioengineered spider venom, but one of the most common substances of them all, the proverbial tree that blocks our view of the forest. Read More...
Curcumin Blocks Breast Cancer Metastasis
11/29/2005	New research from the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center at the University of Texas in Houston suggests that consuming adequate amounts of the common spice *curcumin* may halt the spread of breast cancer in its tracks. Read More...

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