Strengthen Your Muscles from Your Eyes to Your Toes

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When you are in your 30′s, your skeletal muscle mass will peak. After that, they will reduce slightly in number and size every year. By the time you are in your 50′s, 15% of muscle mass may be lost, and by your 80′s, as much as 30% of muscle mass may be lost.

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Drink Green Tea to Reduce Body Fat

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Did you over-indulge in too many high-calorie foods over the holidays? Put on a few extra pounds? Two-thirds of American adults are overweight or obese, and a few extra pounds add up to health risks. However, drinking green tea may help fight body fat and also lower cholesterol levels.

Green tea is lower [...]

Eye Disease More Common in Women

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While everyone, regardless of gender, must take care of their eye health, women have more eye disease, blindness and vision problems than men. A major study in 2001 shows that around the world, eye disease is more common in women.

Topping the list for women vs. men is dry eye syndrome, autoimmune diseases, [...]

November: Diabetic Eye Disease Month

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November has been named “Diabetic Eye Disease Month” by the volunteer eye health an safety organization, Prevent Blindness America.

People with diabetes are at a high risk for eye disease. Diabetics should get an annual eye exam to screen for problems. Diabetic Eye Disease Month is the perfect time to remember that the [...]

Glacoma Associated with Metabolic Syndrome

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Don’t just take it from us that glaucoma risk increases in those who have diabetes, high blood pressure, and who are overweight.  Researchers publishing in the journal Ophthalmology have found that these conditions, which together are labeled “metabolic syndrome” are all linked to the development of open-angle glaucoma.

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Sleep and Stress Reduction Encourage Weight Loss

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Are you ready to sleep away those extra pounds?

 

A new study from Kaiser Permanente’s Center for Health Research in Portland describes how high levels of stress and inadequate sleep can keep people from losing weight, even when they are following a diet.

Study authors say that those [...]

Healthy Lifestyle Prevents Stroke, Cataracts, Macular Degeneration, Glaucoma

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A healthy lifestyle can reduce your risk of stroke by up to 80%.

Research published in the journal Stroke encourages people to exercise regularly, drink alcohol only in moderation, eat plenty of fruits and veggies, control weight, and not smoke in order to avoid stroke.

These guidelines are the [...]

Weight Loss Discovery: Eat Less When You Eat a Nutrient Rich Diet

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One of the most basic and essential recommendations we can make to those interested in maintaining and improving eye health is to eat well.

A new study published in the Nutrition Journal are better able to manage their weight when they consume a diet high in nutrients.  The more [...]

Acupuncture Aids Weight Loss

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Researchers have just released the results of a new study called “The Effects of Acupuncture on Weight-Loss in Over-Weight and Obese Adults Over 24 Years Old.”

This study has been called “groundbreaking” because it claims that 95% of the participants lost weight over the six week trial.  Even after [...]

Weight Loss Study: Drink Water Before Each Meal and Shed Pounds

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Drinking two cups of water before a meal can help you lose weight, but the magic is not in the water.  To lose weight, the best way is still to reduce your caloric intake.

At a meeting of National Meeting of the American Chemical Society researchers presented their findings: in a study of [...]