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Rejuvenate your skin with Astaxanthin
Daily supplementation with astaxanthin may improve the health of facial skin in middle-aged subjects, suggests research from scientists in the UK and Russia.
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Three supplements you should be taking this winter
Ensuring you are achieving adequate nutritional and vitamin intake is important all year round but there are a few supplements that are particular important to stock up on during the winter season.
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It's time to add turmeric to your beauty regime
Scientific research has already firmly establishing turmeric as protective of the cardiovascular system, a supporter of healthy cholesterol levels and a potent free radical scavenger but new research is now coming to light to show that it may keep you looking young, possibly slowing down the rate at which the skin ages. So is it time you started adding this miracle spice to your beauty regime?
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Supplement recommendations depending on your diet
Even though it's the ultimate goal, getting all the nutrition required for optimal health from food alone is quite difficult. So whether you're just trying your best to eat healthy or you're adhering to a strict vegan, paleo or gluten free diet, chances are you need some help from supplements. Here we look at a few of the most common diet plans and give some general recommendations based on the commonalties existing within each of them in respect to their nutritional shortfalls.
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It's Vitamin D day today!
Led by the Vitamin D Society, Vitamin D Council and GrassrootsHealth, Vitamin D Day is a day marked to recognize vitamin D deficiency as a world health problem. Researchers has agreed that at least one third of the world is deficient in vitamin D, and some scientists think it's even greater than that.
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Turmeric could prevent weight gain after menopause
Research to date, in both menopausal women and animals, has shown that once ovulation ceases significant changes to the composition of gut bacteria occurs. Curcumin (the active component of Turmeric) has been shown in previous studies to demonstrate weight-gain prevention effects in menopausal rats. An interesting study by a Chinese research team looked at how the possible changes in gut bacteria induced by curcumin might be involved.
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Acai could be an important prebiotic
Polyphenols found within Acai have been shown to survive through the entire digestive system, thereby potentially offering prebiotic benefits throughout the gastrointestinal tract, according to researchers in the UK.
Learn moreIf being healthy is just like any other choice why is it so hard?
Hard choices make us feel like we are being pulled in two directions - doing healthy things can feel like a battle between the devil on one shoulder and the angel on the other. The wicked devil impels us to give in to the burger for lunch while the virtuous angel is nagging us to opt for a salad. Getting to the root causes of healthy behaviors is important because they are a big part of individual and public health.
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Why are sperm counts plunging in the developed world?
The UK's fertility could be under threat as sperm rates continue to plunge in a shocking downward spiral, a study has warned. Scientists recorded the concentration of sperm in the ejaculate of men in western countries has fallen by an average of 1.4% a year, leading to an overall drop of just over 52% between 1973 and 2011 and they are still falling at a rate of two per cent every year.
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