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...than simplicity, and it has become clear that although older bodies burn fewer calories than younger ones, they actually require bigger helpings of nutrients. Older bodies absorb nutrients from food less efficiently than younger ones. Aging bodies continue to need not just nutrition but also aerobic exercise to preserve cardiovascular health and weight-bearing exercise to prevent bone loss and build muscle...
...doctrine that healthy people should get all they require from a well-balanced diet. Dr. Robert Russell, one of the Tufts authors, observes how difficult it is to get enough of some vitamins from the most conscientious diet. "Vitamin E in high dosages may help prevent some cancers and cardiovascular disease," he says. "To get that much from your diet, you'd have to consume 1 1/2 quarts of olive...
Whether [endostain] can be implemented [ to help humans] based on the animal studies remains to be seen," said Isner, who is chief of vaascular medicine and cardiovascular research at St.Elizabeth's Medical Center in Boston and a professor of medicine and pathology at Tufts University...
...studied 70 subjects, half of them men, half women. Witvliet finds "robust" physiological differences between nonforgiving and forgiving states. Subjects' cardiovascular systems inevitably labor when they remember the person who hurt them. But stress is "significantly greater" when they consider revenge rather than forgiveness. Witvliet suggests that we may be drawn to hold grudges "because that makes us feel like we are more in control and we are less sad." But interviews with her subjects indicate that they felt in even greater control when they tried to empathize with their offenders and enjoyed the greatest sense of power, well-being...
Sources--Good News: Press reports; American Heart Association meeting on cardiovascular disease. Bad News: A.H.A. meeting; Journal of the American Medical Association (3/24/99...