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Vitamin E Supplementation May Decrease the Incidence of Pneumonia in Elderly Male Smokers, New Study Suggests
10 April 2017
07 May 2012
Eating green leafy vegetables, such as watercress, can prevent some of the damage caused by high intensity exercise and help maximize the benefits of a tough workout, suggests a new study from the UK.
The study compared the physical reaction of men (average age: 23 years) participating in high-level exer-cise on the treadmill who had consumed 85g of watercress everyday over a period of eight weeks to the physical reaction of men with no intake (1). The results showed that those who had not eaten watercress were found to have more DNA damage, increased lipid peroxidation – a sign of oxidative stress – and lower levels of antioxidants, such as vitamin E (alpha-tocopherol), than those who had eaten it. The effect of eating this leafy green vegetable did not rely upon an accumulative build-up in the men’s bodies: those who ate the vegetable just two hours before exercising experienced the same benefits as those who had consumed the vegetable for eight weeks.
The researchers concluded that consuming a relatively small amount of green leafy vegetables each day can help to raise blood levels of important antioxidant vitamins, which may help protect the body from DNA-da-maging free radicals build up by exhaustive aerobic exercise.
10 April 2017
24 May 2013
A new study reports that blood vitamin D concentrations of people living in São Paulo, Brazil, are good among the young and active during the summer, but not so in the winter, and that the elderly have poor levels year round.
30 August 2016
The quality of nutrition during the first 1,000 days - the period between conception and the child’s second birthday – are crucial for health and development along the life cycle.