Intensity of exercise important for fitness and health benefits
Walking is a popular form of exercise, but may not be enough to experience significant health benefits, a University of Alberta study shows.
“Generally, low-intensity activity such as walking alone is not likely going to give anybody marked health benefits compared to programs that occasionally elevate the intensity,” [...]

High blood pressure often is called “the silent killer” because many people don’t know they have it. Even though it doesn’t cause symptoms, high blood pressure is a major health risk. If it isn’t treated, it can lead to stroke, heart disease, kidney failure, and other serious health problems. Information about the prevention, detection, and [...]

Researchers call early Alzheimer’s disease “type 3 diabetes” - treatment of special insulin-related receptor halts progression of the illness in early stages.
Stimulation of a receptor in the brain that controls insulin responses has been shown to halt or diminish the neurodegeneration of Alzheimer’s disease, providing evidence that the disease can be treated in its early [...]

Women who take multivitamins early in pregnancy may reduce the risk that their child will develop some types of brain tumors.
Public health agencies already urge pregnant women to take multivitamins that contain folic acid early in pregnancy to reduce their fetus’s risk of developing a neural tube defect such as spina bifida. “This current study [...]

Researchers have found a possible way to protect people with multiple sclerosis (MS) from severe long-term disability: increase nervous-system levels of a vital compound, called nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD), by giving its chemical precursor – nicotinamide, a form of vitamin B3.
Current therapies for MS mainly address the relapsing-remitting phase of the disease, but some of [...]

Eating FATTY fish only once per week dropped risk of renal cancer 74% in women 
If you want to avoid cancer of the kidneys, a new major study from Karolinska Institutet in Sweden shows that eating salmon or other kinds of fatty fish a few times a month would be one good way to go about it.
At [...]