Tag: Longevity
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10 Reasons To Practice Intermittent Fasting
Fasting is the practice of abstaining or reducing consumption of food, drink, or both, for a specific period. Everyone fasts for at least some part of the day. Generally, the eight or so hours one spends sleeping every night. Physiologically, fasting can refer to a person’s metabolic status after not eating overnight or even the…
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Which Sugar Substitutes Are Healthiest?
Are you feeling confused about whether to include or remove sugar substitutes from your diet? The pressure is on to get fit, lose weight and lower our calorie intake. But how do we know what is really healthiest for us in the long run? From artificial sweeteners to sugar alcohols to honey. Some experts are…
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10 Key Diet Lessons from the Okinawans
A team consisting of Makoto Suzuki, a cardiologist, geriatrician, Bradley Wilcox, a physician-investigator…
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Delicious Low-Gi Banana Muffins for Afternoon Tea?
Banana bread is an all-time favourite and a great way to use up ripe bananas, which can be frozen until you are ready to bake. This version is baked individually as muffins and spiked with peanut butter.
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Eating Eggs Lowers Risk of Diabetes
A new study, published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, has shown that, contrary to popular belief, eating eggs actually lowers the risk of diabetes. “The diabetes tsunami is here. And we in South Africa are in trouble.” Says Dr Larry Distiller, founder and managing director of the Centre for Diabetes and Endocrinology in Johannesburg. “Three-and-a-half…