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Living Healthier, Longer with Ageless Essentials Daily Pack

By Isagenix Nutritional Sciences

The solution for anti-aging nutrition in handy AM and PM packets.Who wouldn’t want to feel ten years younger, live long enough to play with their great-great grandchildren, travel the world at 80, or see who wins Super Bowl  2050? Ageless Essentials Daily Pack can help you live these dreams of a future with long-term health and quality of life.

Dietary Guidelines 2010: Where Less is More

By Isagenix Nutritional Sciences

New dietary guidelines advise reducing sodium and calories from solid fats and added sugars.

The world of nutrition has been waiting anxiously for the new 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans to finally be released—that happened today. This document comes out every five years as a joint effort with the U.S. Department of Agriculture and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. It is based on the findings from the Advisory Committee made up of nutrition and health experts who analyze the latest research findings on diet and health.

No evidence of dairy and chronic disease link

By Isagenix Nutritional Sciences

The popular press has recently reported on assumptions that regular consumption of milk or dairy products may increase risk of cardiovascular disease or death. However, new research has once again confirmed after systematically analyzing 17 studies that there is simply no evidence to substantiate these claims.

The evidence, in fact, shows just the opposite—drinking milk slightly reduces the risk of coronary heart disease (1). In addition, multiple studies show that milk and dairy proteins (whey and casein) may actually protect the heart by helping to maintain lower blood pressure, lower blood sugar, and lead to reduced bodyweight (2-4).

Resveratrol Boosts Levels of Fat-Control Hormone

If shoring up heart and cell health isn’t reason enough to try resveratrol, then perhaps help trimming down the midsection will add some extra motivation. A new study from University of Texas Health Center suggests that supplementing daily with the anti-aging compound found in grapes may increase production of a hormone produced by fat cells called adiponectin.

Adiponectin has a wide range of benefits and increased amounts of the hormone are associated with greater insulin sensitivity and reduced bodyweight. The study should interest anyone who is interested in losing weight or growing older, according to the study’s senior author Feng Liu, professor of pharmacology and member of the Barshop Institute of Longevity and Aging Studies at the Health Science Center.

CoQ10 Adds to Mediterranean Diet’s Anti-Aging Benefits

By Isagenix Nutritional Sciences

Elderly men and women who supplement Mediterranean-style meals with coenzyme Q10 (coQ10) enjoy greater antioxidant protection and could slow aging, a Spanish

study

finds (1).

In a randomized crossover trial, University of Cordoba researchers assigned 20 healthy adults (ages 65 and older) to one of the three dietary protocols for the duration of four weeks: a traditional Western-style diet rich in saturated fats, a Mediterranean-style diet rich in olive oil, or a Mediterranean-style diet supplemented with coQ10 (200 mg/day in capsules).* **

The scientists found that the combination (Mediterranean-style meals and coQ10) improved antioxidant activity and reduced cellular oxidative stress in the subjects more successfully than the Mediterranean-style or Western-style diet alone.

Vitamin D Status Affected by Obesity

Those who carry a few extra pounds may need more of the sunshine vitamin to stay healthy. By Isagenix Nutritional Sciences

People who are overweight or obese are more likely to have lower circulating levels of vitamin D and may have trouble with conversion to its hormonally active form, a Norwegian study suggests.

These findings, published in the Journal of Nutrition, may partially explain why carrying extra pounds raises risk of several poor health outcomes linked to low vitamin D. The hormonally active form is critical for maintaining cell health, strong bones, a strong immune system, and a healthy heart and brain.

Starting Your New Year Right with Isagenix

By Isagenix Nutritional Sciences

Isagenix makes the path to improved health achievable easier than ever.

With the start of each new year, many people will declare New Year’s resolutions. The most popular of these will be losing weight and getting fit. However, despite best intentions, a majority of those people will find discouragement after only a month or so because of minimal results from regular diet and exercise. In the end, it will mean yet another year of resolutions made and broken. So, how can you break this viscious cycle?

Omega-3 Slows Muscle Loss in Older Adults

By Isagenix Nutritional Sciences

Fish oil supplementation helps slow sarcopenia, hints a new study. Supplementation with omega-3 fatty acids from fish oil can help prevent muscle loss in aging adults, according to a new randomized, controlled trial.

The findings, published in American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, suggest that fish oil supplementation may be useful as a nutritional intervention to counter the onset of sarcopenia, or age-related skeletal muscle loss. The researchers performing the study gave 16 healthy, older adults either omega-3 fatty acids (1.86 grams of eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) and 1.5 grams of docosahexaenoic acid (DHA)) or corn oil (in equal amounts) for eight weeks.

How Parents Can Support Children’s Health

By Isagenix Nutritional Sciences

With the recent signing of a “sweeping overhaul” of child nutrition standards in the United States, children will now have greater access to nutritious foods, such as fruits and vegetables, as part of their school lunches.

However, in the efforts to curb a childhood obesity epidemic, it’s important to not forget the greatest influence in promoting a child’s healthier future: parents. Supportive parenting continues to be key in setting a good example for children and encouraging healthy habits—here are five strategies that parents can adopt:

Three Critical Nutrients for Stronger Bones

By Isagenix Nutritional Sciences

A combination of weight training and vitamin K2, calcium and vitamin D leads to healthier bones.

Keeping bones strong is crucial for healthy aging because they provide the framework that supports our bodies, protects our organs, anchors our muscles, and acts as a reservoir for minerals, storing 99 percent of the body’s calcium and 85 percent of phosphorus.

Bone health is important at any age, but more important for women and the elderly, who are at a higher risk for bone loss, especially if they didn’t maximize their bone strength earlier in life. Bone mass develops all throughout childhood and continues well into a person’s twenties peaking during his or her early thirties.