American - Author | October 25, 1972 -
Sometimes it feels like there aren't enough hours in a day to get everything done.
Michael Greger
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As you age, your blood pressure tends to get higher.
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Nitric oxide is a key biological messenger within the body. When released by the cells lining your arteries, it makes the walls of the arteries relax, allowing more blood to flow.
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Without enough nitric oxide, your arteries can stiffen, raising blood pressure and your risk of heart attack.
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If you consume too much salt, it can cause water retention. When this happens, your body usually responds by raising your blood pressure to push excess fluid and salt out of your system.
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Most Alzheimer's sufferers aren't diagnosed until their 70s. However, we now know that their brains began deteriorating long before that.
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Most of us know that the hormone melatonin helps regulate our sleep. But it also seems to play another role - suppressing cancer growth.
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In a Harvard University study, the diets of nearly 1,000 women were analysed before their morning melatonin levels were measured. Meat consumption was the only food significantly associated with lower melatonin production, for reasons that are as yet unknown.
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One of the worst things you can do if you're worried about breast cancer is to cook beef, pork, fish or poultry at a high temperature - which includes frying, grilling and roasting.
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Breast cancer is thought to use cholesterol to help the cancer migrate and invade more tissue.
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Five hours a week of vigorous aerobic exercise can lower estrogen and progesterone exposure by about 20 per cent.
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Although even light exercise is associated with a lowered risk of some other types of cancer, for breast cancer, it appears that leisurely strolls don't appear to cut it.
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