Yep. Gotta roll on for the day. Have a good one.
________________________________ From: "authfri...@yahoo.com" <authfri...@yahoo.com> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2013 1:01 PM Subject: RE: Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: RE: Healthy eating, exercise and stress reduction may slow down aging at genetic level She seems to feel she has to put her oar into every conversation one way or another, whether it contributes anything or not. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com> wrote: Share has a way of working unconsciously, I think, to hijack a thread and superimpose her reality on top of others', trying to turn theirs into meaningless frivolity. Her manner of doing this is deceptive and reeks of disguised disrespect and ego running rampantly wild, and more often than not ensures that the trajectory of the thread she is involved with will devolve into nonsensical conversation. It's painful to watch. ________________________________ From: Share Long <sharelong60@...> To: "FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2013 11:06 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: RE: Healthy eating, exercise and stress reduction may slow down aging at genetic level IMHO, Doc, a few of those good guy vampires in the Twilight series were not creepy at all! ________________________________ From: "doctordumbass@..." <doctordumbass@...> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, September 16, 2013 8:53 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] RE: RE: Healthy eating, exercise and stress reduction may slow down aging at genetic level Once you are dead enough, to all your false identities, you can do almost anything you want, remaining quite healthy. A deathless existence, only without the creepy vampire vibe. :-) --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com> wrote: Re "A program of healthy eating, exercise and stress reduction can not only reverse some diseases -- it may actually slow down the ageing process": tell us something we don't know. I want to hear that smoking 40 a day and downing Scotch is beneficial. >>--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com> wrote: >> >> >>http://www.today.com/health/healthy-diet-may-reverse-aging-study-finds-4B11175619 >> >>TODAYHealth >>Aging >>Healthy diet may reverse aging, study finds >>Maggie FoxNBC NewsA program of healthy eating, exercise and stress reduction >>can not only reverse some diseases -- it may actually slow down the aging >>process at the genetic level, researchers reported Monday. >> >>The lifestyle changes affected the telomeres -- little caps on the end of the >>chromosomes that carry the DNA, the team at the University of California, San >>Francisco report. >>The report, published in Lancet Oncology, is based on just a few men, and >>prostate cancer patients at that. But it shows surprising results: Men who >>switched to a vegan diet, added exercise and stress reduction had longer >>telomeres. >>The men followed a program advocated by Dr. Dean Ornish, who has long >>researched the role of a very low-fat, vegetarian diet in improving health. >>Ornish, a professor of medicine at UCSF, worked with telomere expert Dr. >>Elizabeth Blackburn, who won the 2009 Nobel Prize in Medicine for her >>discoveries. >>“Taken as a whole, this is really the first study showing that any >>intervention may reduce cellular aging,” Ornish told NBC News. “I think these >>findings are almost certainly not restricted to men with prostate cancer.” >>Ornish and Blackburn’s team examined 10 prostate cancer patients who had >>chosen to try Ornish’s program, and compared them to 25 patients who had not. >>They all had early stage prostate cancer that wasn’t considered dangerous. >>The program includes eating a diet high in whole foods, fruits, vegetables, >>unrefined grains and keeping fat to 10 percent of calories. The average >>American gets more than a third of calories from fat. For the first three >>months, volunteers got take-home meals. >>They also exercised, walking at least 30 minutes a day, six days a week, did >>yoga-based stretching and breathing exercises, practiced relaxation >>techniques and went to weekly one-hour stress-reduction group sessions. And >>they gave blood samples. >>“We found that telomerase increased by 30 percent in just three months,” >>Ornish said. Telomerase is an enzyme that affects telomeres. They also looked >>at gene activity. “Gene expression on 500 genes changed, in every case in a >>beneficial way,” Ornish told NBC News. >>Five years later, the team took blood samples again. The 10 men who followed >>the Ornish plan had significantly longer telomeres five years later -- on >>average 10 percent longer. The 25 men who had not followed the program had >>shorter telomeres -- 3 percent shorter on average. >> >>“The more people changed their lifestyles, the more they improved,” Ornish >>said. >>Ornish’s diet plan has been shown to reverse heart disease, diabetes and may >>help keep early prostate cancer in check. >>Ornish was working with prostate cancer patients who had chosen not to get >>any treatment for their tumors. Only a few men had given enough blood in the >>study to make it possible to test their stored samples, so he thinks a larger >>study should now be conducted. >> >>Ornish says the program is easy to follow. Each of the 10 men had stuck with >>it for five years and longer -- long past the time they were enrolled in the >>study. >> >>“We are getting 85 to 95 percent adherence to our program,” he said. “We are >>getting ridiculously high levels of adherence.” >>Ornish says that’s because it’s pleasant, and comprehensive. “And most people >>feel so much better they change their lifestyle,” he said. >>“People often think that it has to be a new drug or a new laser, something >>really high-tech and expensive to be powerful. What we are finding is the >>simple choices that we make every day are more powerful.”
