Fearful of Alzheimer’s? Drink this...

In my November 4, 2011 Health Alert, I told you a very simple and tasty way to help prevent cancer. All you have to do is drink coffee. Now, it turns out, another study says coffee can also help prevent Alzheimer’s.

What’s exciting about this study, like the others on cancer, is that three to five cups of coffee a day can work wonders on your memory. Obviously, this is great news for coffee lovers.

How sleeping can increase your risk of death by 500%

What if I told you going to sleep can significantly increase your risk of cancer and death? You’d think I was crazy. But a new study says this just may be the case....

If you use sleeping pills, that is.

Surely sleeping pills can’t be that dangerous, can they? Well, in this new study, prescription sleeping pills might be just as life threatening as smoking cigarettes. 

The easiest exercise program ever
prevents aging and disease

Last week, I showed you what the Centers for Disease Control considers a great exercise program. This agency wants you to walk briskly (three miles per hour or faster, but not race-walking), do water aerobics, bicycle slower than 10 miles per hour, play doubles tennis, do ballroom dancing, or general gardening. And they want you to do this for at least an hour a day, seven days a week.

Now I'm a bicycle rider and a tennis player. And I can tell you that riding at a speed less than 10 miles per hour is the equivalent of doing just enough to prevent falling off.