Specific sub-populations may benefit from antioxidant intakes to support healthy aging, with men particularly seen as an ‘at-risk’ group, says a new paper published in the American Journal of Epidemiology
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One of the largest probiotic clinical interventions has found significant improvement in gut health in healthy people.
"Low protein, high carbohydrate diets could be just as effective as low calorie diets at promoting a long life and good heart and digestive health.""The mice got the same benefits from a low protein, high carbohydrate as a 40 percent caloric restriction diet."
"Women who took vitamin D and calcium supplements had the same number of menopausal symptoms as women who did not take the supplements, according to a study published today in Maturitas, the official journal of the European Menopause and Andropause Society."