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How Will You Stop Diabetes?

By Isagenix Nutritional Sciences

The future of diabetes is in your hands – this is the message that the American Diabetes Association will be sharing next month amidst news that the number of diabetes cases could double, even triple, by 2050. 

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released an analysis in the journal Population Health Metrics today with estimates that have painted a grim picture of what current health trends are and what can be expected as long as they continue:

Large Study Links Multivitamins to Women’s Heart Health

By Isagenix Nutritional Sciences

Women who take multivitamins may be doing good for their hearts in the long run, a large study from Sweden suggests.

The study’s findings, published in the September issue of American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, indicated that taking multivitamins was associated with a cardioprotective (heart protective) benefit among women without cardiovascular disease.

Additionally, the link to cardiovascular health was stronger among women who used multivitamins for five years or longer.

But the study only found a weak association of cardiovascular health and multivitamin use among women with cardiovascular disease.

This observational study does not reflect cause and effect, but simply tracked a correlation in this population. The results do not resolve whether or not multivitamins are indeed heart protective.

The study followed a population-based sample group of 31,671 women with no history of cardiovascular disease and 2,262 women with a history of cardiovascular disease for just over 10 years.

Canada Lists Bisphenol A As Toxic

By Isagenix Nutritional Sciences

This week, Health Canada officially declared bisphenol A (BPA) to be a toxic substance under the Canadian Environmental Protection Act. This decision will lead to government regulation and management to limit the use of this industrial chemical in plastic items to better control risks to health and the environment.

The announcement sets the stage for further action in Canada to minimize the prevalence of harmful industrial toxins in the future.

BPA is used in some hard, clear polycarbonate plastic items such as water bottles. It’s also a component in the production of epoxy resins, which are used in linings of aluminum cans.

In 2008, the government had banned its use in polycarbonate plastic baby bottles and baby food packaging.

To justify the labeling, the Canadian government cites scientific evidence that BPA can potentially act as an endocrine disruptor, mimicking hormones in the body, in low amounts.

The Case for Delaying Aging

By Isagenix Nutritional Sciences

Since the beginning of the 20th century, human life expectancy has steadily increased by more than 30 years, and is expected—if we can sustain current trends—to increase even more in the 21st century.

Now more than ever before, biogerontologists are advising that life expectancy is not fixed but “plastic,” and predicting that nutritional and medical advances could help keep people healthy and alive well past their 100th birthdays.

Recently, however, a few scientists have called for stepping up medical research and focusing more on late-life aging-intervention therapy, which they say is needed to avert what they have predicted will become a “global aging crisis.”

Middle-aged Mice on BCAAs Live 12% Longer

By Isagenix Nutritional Sciences

Scientists are actively seeking aging-intervention strategies to help people maintain their youth in anticipation of a sharp rise in the elderly population – due to the “baby boomer” generation – and an unprecedented number of elderly in North America and throughout the developed world.

Now, a new study in the October issue of Cell Metabolism reports that middle-aged, male mice given a cocktail of branched-chain amino acids (BCAAs) – leucine, isoleucine, valine – in their drinking water lived an average of 12 percent longer (869 days compared to 774 days) than middle-aged, male mice drinking regular water.

Can I Take Isagenix if I’m Pregnant or Breastfeeding?

By Isagenix Nutritional Sciences

Pregnancy is a delicate time for both mother and child. As you know, there’s a lot going on in your growing belly and staying well nourished is critical for normal fetal development and maternal health.

Pregnancy

A dietary plan during pregnancy should best suit individual needs. For this reason, Isagenix recommends an expectant mother review diet and any products with her doctor closely. A quality, physician-prescribed prenatal supplement can also help fill in nutritional gaps.

For general dietary and supplement advice during pregnancy, see USDA MyPyramid Plan for Moms.

Can Taking a Multivitamin Daily Protect Telomeres and Slow Aging?

By Isagenix Nutritional Sciences

Telomeres are protective, repeating sequences of DNA found at the end of chromosomes, and their length decreases with each cell division, making them a proposed marker of biological aging. Over time their shortening  results in cellular aging and eventual cell loss increasing the risk of age-related breakdown of the body.

There are several diet and lifestyle habits known to help reduce the rate of telomere loss — such as quitting smoking, exercising, maintaining a healthy weight, and getting enough antioxidants, vitamin D and fish oil in the diet — but it was not known until just last year whether or not supplementation with a daily multivitamin has any effect on preserving telomere length.

National Institute of Health researchers were the first to report, in a study published in the March 2009 issue of American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, epidemiological evidence that regular multivitamin use was associated with longer telomeres among women.

High Doses of B Vitamins May Slow Brain Shrinkage, Support Memory

By Isagenix Nutritional Sciences

Unfortunately, getting older comes with a common consequence affecting up to 16 percent of elderly people – gradual reduction in brain size, which is associated with problems in learning and memory. However, a new study reports that daily supplementation with high doses of B vitamins may help slow the rate of brain degeneration.

Oxford researchers gave 168 individuals over the age of 70 supplements containing high doses of folic acid (0.8 milligrams per day), B6 (20 milligrams per day) and B12 (0.5 milligrams per day), or a placebo as part of a randomized, double-blind controlled trial. Then, following two years of the supplementation program, the participants’ brains were assessed using serial volumetric magnetic resonance imaging scans.

Sun Defense 365: Skin Protection All Year Round

By Isagenix Nutritional Sciences

 A special Skin Health Education Report by Marilyn Territo, C.E., C.M.

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Green tea may lead to longer life by protecting DNA

By Isagenix Nutritional Sciences

Last year, scientists from The Chinese University of Hong Kong found a positive association between high consumption of tea (Camellia sinensis) and longer telomere length – a marker of younger “biological age” – and living an average of five years longer, but it was unclear just how much of an impact was made by the tea.

Now scientists from Hong Kong Polytechnic University have discovered, through a cell culture study then followed by a controlled trial of supplementation in humans, that drinking two cups of green tea daily may offer notable DNA protection from oxidation.

Writing in the September issue of British Journal of Nutrition, the study’s authors state that the “genoprotective effects of green tea lend support to its use as a functional food and provide scientific evidence for the more confident recommendation of regular intake of green tea for health promotion.”