Healthy Ageing: Nutrition
In this era of fast foods and junk foods, the epidemic of metabolic and lifestyle diseases have skyrocketed. Every hour a person dies from a heart attack…
In this era of fast foods and junk foods, the epidemic of metabolic and lifestyle diseases have skyrocketed. Every hour a person dies from a heart attack…
Exercise is the best buy in public health and as Hippocrates said thousands of years ago, “Walking is men’s best medicine”.
In addition to normal body processes, environmental factors such as radiation, pollution, tobacco smoke, and others can act as oxidants and cause free radicals formation.
The immune theory of ageing suggests that as we get older our immune system becomes less efficient and we become more prone to infections and cancer.
The neuroendocrine theory suggests that it is the decline of the nervous and endocrine systems and lessening of their ability to regulate and integrate…
The era of DNA profiling began where we could look at our DNA variants and then put in place lifestyle changes to prevent disease and slow down the…