Published June 5, 2009

Lower your cholesterol with a daily glass of juice
(but not fruit juice)

How would you like to drink a glass of juice every morning and watch your cholesterol numbers drop like a rock? Well, you can do just that, but it won’t happen with regular fruit juice.

A new study found that drinking kale juice may be cholesterol’s bane.

The researchers gave 32 men 150 mL of kale juice daily for 12 weeks. At the end of the study, the juice increased their hard-to-raise HDL cholesterol by 27%. The HDL:LDL ratio improved by 52%. And it decreased their LDL by 10%. The atherogenic index, a measure of vascular risk, dropped by 24%.

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Published June 4, 2009

Don’t read that ingredients label!

I recently read a book on anti-aging which was 315 pages long. Everything in the book was about taking hormones and vitamins, and getting exercise. The entire discussion of food was limited to one paragraph. And this basically just recited the “keep fat intake below 30% and cholesterol intake below 200 mg” mantra. This is a sad state of affairs, because nothing is going to keep you young more than what you eat.

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Published June 3, 2009

4 signs that you’re becoming frail —
and how one vitamin can keep you strong

Have you noticed your walking speed isn’t quite as fast as it used to be? Is your endurance waning? Has your physical activity dropped off in recent years? And is your ability to grip losing strength? If you answer yes to any of these problems, it’s possible you’re seeing the first signs of frailty.

Fortunately, there’s one vitamin that could stop the progression. And it’s easy to become deficient in this vitamin, especially as you age.

The vitamin is none other than vitamin B12. A new study says elderly women with low B12 have a much higher risk of being “frail” than those with plenty of B12 activity.

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