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Archive for February, 2009

Risk Of Colds And Flu May Be Increased By Vitamin D Deficiency

Thursday, February 26th, 2009

Risk Of Colds And Flu May Be Increased By Vitamin D Deficiency
Vitamin D may be an important way to arm the immune system against disorders like the common cold, report investigators from the University of Colorado Denver (UC Denver) School of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Children’s Hospital Boston.
Read Full Article at Nutrition / [...]

Fish oil helps patients with chronic heart failure

Sunday, February 1st, 2009

Fish oil helps patients with chronic heart failure
Fish oil supplements may work slightly better than a popular cholesterol-reducing drug to help patients with chronic heart failure, according to new research released Sunday.
Read Full Article at MSNBC.com: Heart health

Dean Ornish gets it right!!

Sunday, February 1st, 2009

I knew Dean Ornish when he was a medical student, doing studies on yoga and diet with heart disease patients. I suspected then he was destined for great things. This article he just wrote for Newsweek beautifully expresses what i like to call The Art of Growing Young.
What really works to make sustainable changes in [...]