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Salty junk food linked to autoimmune diseases

excessive salt causes autoimmune diseasesSo it’s almost official. Junk food – aka McDonald’s, Burger King, other nasty fast food chains, plus heat and serve groceries, – could be to blame for the rise in auto-immune diseases according to a new study.

Diseases that got the finger include multiple sclerosis, including alopecia, asthma and eczema, among others.

A team of scientists from Yale University in the U.S and the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, in Germany, say junk food diets could be partly to blame.

The culprit? Excess refined and processed salt may be one of the factors driving the increased incidence of autoimmune diseases. Junk foods at fast food restaurants as well as processed foods at grocery retailers represent the largest sources of sodium intake from refined salts.
U.S. fast foods are often more than twice as salt-laden as those of other countries.

Read more here: Scientists Officially Link Processed Foods To Autoimmune Disease

Infographic: Longevity secrets of the Okinawans

Want to live a very long long time? Do what the Okinawans do. Have a look at this infographic from Best MHA Programs to learn which these islanders from Japan live the longest.

Longevity secrets learned from them and other centenarians include:

  • Eat less
  • Laugh
  • Avoid stress
  • Stay positive
  • Engage your mind

 

Beyond 100: What We Can Learn from People who Pass the Century Mark
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Berkeley study may lead to ‘molecular fountain of youth’

Will Berkeley study lead to molecular fountain of youth
Will Berkeley study lead to molecular fountain of youth

When blood-generating stem cells lose their potency as humans age, disease factors increase. But that can be reversed using a gene linked to  to the aging process.

That’s what a study at the University of California at Berkeley shows, at least in mice. Scientists found that SIRT3, a protein which has previously been linked to aging, could actually aid in reversing the natural process.

This opens the door to possible therapies to treat age-related degenerative diseases. More work needs to be done, say the scientists, however understanding the process could lead to developing a “molecular fountain of youth.”

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Researchers claim anti-aging gene works

Do low calorie diets help you live longer?
Two papers show that a controversial gene allows low calorie diets to help you live longer

Two papers published in international journals by Indian researchers from the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) show that the controversial gene SIR2 has valid anti-aging properties and can fight aging and related diseases.

The gene has been at the center of a global controversy for years, with one set of scientists claiming the gene extends lifespans. An opposing group disagrees.

The arguments question the relevance of expensive drugs that can mimic the effect of the gene thereby slowing aging and thwarting age-related disease.

But there’s a catch! It works only on a low-calorie diet. The gene can be found in human beings as many other living organisms.

A low-calorie diet helps the gene in humans by providing protection from diseases like diabetes, cancer, obesity as well as Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and cardiovascular diseases. The study says it promotes healthy aging.

Learn more: http://www.indianexpress.com/news/longevity-gene-works-but-you-must-eat-right/1067845/

Lack of Biotechnology Only Limit on Human Longevity

Are there limits on human longevity? Sure. Few people will make it past a hundred years of age in the environment of today’s medical technology – but today is today, and the technology of tomorrow will be a different story. If you want to talk about longevity and mortality rates, you have to qualify your position by stating what sort of applied biotechnologies are available. Longevity is a function of the quality and type of medicine that is available across a life span.

It so happens that most of the advances in medicine achieved over the course of human history, the vast majority of which have occurred in the past fifty years, have solved problems that killed people early in life. Infectious disease, for example, is controlled to a degree that would have been thought utopian in the squalor of Victorian England. The things that kill older people are a harder set of challenges: great progress has been made in reducing mortality from heart disease in the past few decades, for example, but that is just one late stage consequence of the complex array of biochemical processes that we call aging.

The point of this discussion? It is that tremendous progress in medicine, including the defeat or taming of many varied causes of death and disability, has not greatly lengthened the maximum human life span as experienced in practice.

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Lack of Biotechnology Only Limit on Human Longevity

Salty junk food linked to autoimmune diseases

So it’s almost official. Junk food – aka McDonald’s, Burger King, other nasty fast food chains, plus heat and serve groceries, – could be to blame for the rise in auto-immune diseases according to a new study.