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Red Wine: The Key to Unlocking a Longer Life

Who would have thought that your glass of red wine with dinner could be keeping you healthy?  A study done by the Harvard Medical School and the National Institute of Aging showed that “heavy doses of red wine extract lowered the rate of diabetes, liver problems and other fat-related ill [...]

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10 Simple Ways to Reduce Wrinkles

Wrinkles signify  wisdom,  right?
Wrong.
With age comes change and while there is no way to completely avoid wrinkles, there are definitely precautions and steps you can take to reduce the amount of wrinkles that you get over a lifetime.

Avoid overexposure to the sun. Sun exposure can be a major cause [...]

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3 Environmental Factors that Aren’t Helping Your Wrinkles

Overexposure to the sun.
While we all covet the flawless golden tan, countless studies have shown that overexposure to the sun not only causes most of the wrinkles and age spots on our faces, but leads to skin cancer, one of the most prevalent forms of cancer in the United States. Protect your skin and face [...]

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Fountain of Youth: Resveratrol Might Be Close!

In recent months, we’ve heard a lot about the red wine ingredient resveratrol. It’s been mentioned as a treatment for everything from heart disease to osteoarthritis to cancer. In fact, in January 2009, the CBS TV News program 60 Minutes interviewed researchers who proclaimed a modern-day fountain of youth “ resveratrol.
The mythical fountain of youth [...]

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New Tests on Resveratrol: Can It Slow Aging?

To slow the aging process and add years to human life has been a goal of many biological scientists. New tests on resveratrol, along with several similar chemicals, were recently announced in the Science Times section of The New York Times (August 17, 2009) . The article by Nicholas Wade stated that among a group [...]

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Anti Aging: Resveratrol May Help

In the early years of the 21st century, Dr. David Sinclair of Harvard Medical School and Christoph Westphal, a venture capitalist, co-founded Sirtris Pharmaceuticals to continue Sinclair’s research on anti aging resveratrol effects. Sinclair had discovered that the red wine ingredient resveratrol seemed to have life-extending powers in mice. This might explain, he thought, the [...]

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