Four short walks a day helps keep BP in check - Yahoo! News

Four short walks a day helps keep BP in check - Yahoo! News:

"After four 10-minute sessions on a treadmill, spaced an hour apart, people's blood pressures were reduced for three to four hours longer than after a single 40-minute treadmill workout, Dr. Saejong Park of Indiana University in Bloomington and colleagues found.

'Results of our study indicate that as few as four 10-minute walking sessions per day is effective in reducing blood pressure in prehypertension,' Park and his team conclude in a report in the Journal of Hypertension."

Tea’s Got a Brand New Bag - New York Times

Interesting

Tea’s Got a Brand New Bag - New York Times:

"Look closely at a conventional tea bag in your cupboard or in the paper cup from the local deli. Chances are that instead of leaves it is filled with indistinguishable bits, the detritus left after tea leaves are sifted and graded. The tea industry calls it dust, and the beverage it makes is likely to be rusty-looking and often bitterly tannic. But it no longer has to be, nor is it necessary to brew a whole pot of tea to achieve something better tasting.

Perhaps the surest sign that the tea world is changing is this: Lipton, the world’s largest tea company and a division of Unilever, will start selling tea bags containing long leaf teas in supermarkets nationwide next month"

The War Over Salt - New York Times

The War Over Salt - New York Times:

"the medical association, which had never before called for regulation of a food ingredient, asked the F.D.A. to revoke salt’s long-time status as a substance that is “generally recognized as safe,” a classification that warrants little oversight. Instead, the F.D.A. should regulate salt as a food additive, the medical group said.

If the recommendation were adopted, packaged-food companies would have to adhere to limits on allowable sodium levels for various categories of food, and speed up the search for an alternative to salt as a preservative and flavor enhancer.

The initiative has thrust salt into the limelight as a public health concern and raised questions over how attentive the F.D.A. has been to the problem of excess sodium consumption."

Start the Day in a Happy Way with New Fruity Cheerios(R) Cereal: Financial News - Yahoo! Finance

I have tried this cereal and have to agree with the pressw release: it is really good!

Start the Day in a Happy Way with New Fruity Cheerios(R) Cereal: Financial News - Yahoo! Finance:

"A win-win-win of fun, flavor and nutrition, new Fruity Cheerios cereal can boost the happiness level of any morning routine by giving kids a healthy start to their day and a taste they'll love."

Green tea shown to prolong life in Japanese study - Yahoo! News

Green tea shown to prolong life in Japanese study - Yahoo! News:

"The investigation by Dr. Shinichi Kuriyama and colleagues at the Tohoku University School of Public Policy, Sendai, Japan, found the beverage was particularly effective in fighting heart disease but did not reduce the death rate due to cancer, as some earlier animal studies had suggested.

Polyphenols -- plant compounds known to be antioxidants -- found in green tea may explain the life prolonging benefit it confers, said the study published in this week's"

Olive oil!

More good news on the olive oil front!

From Yahoo:

"Reporting in the Annals of Internal Medicine, European researchers say virgin olive oil may be particularly effective at lowering heart disease risk because of its high level of antioxidant plant compounds.

In a study of 200 healthy men, the researchers found that virgin olive oil -- rich in antioxidants called polyphenols -- showed stronger heart-health effects than the more extensively processed "non-virgin" variety."

More reason to drink juice!

Fruit and vegetable juice may ward off Alzheimer's - Yahoo! News:

"Drinking fruit and vegetable juices frequently could help stave of Alzheimer's disease in individuals at risk for developing the disease, research suggests."