1-2 Walks Per Week Helps To Improve Cardiovascular Durability And Longevity

The researchers say an increased intake of magnesium-rich foods such as spinach and nuts could also help reduce the risk of dementia, which is the second leading cause of death in Australia and the seventh biggest killer globally.  The research is published in the European Journal of Nutrition. 

Peanuts are considered nuts in terms of nutritional composition. Eating peanuts and peanut butter could have a beneficial impact on vascular health in young and healthy people, according to a study published in the journal Antioxidants.

The paper is led by Rosa M. Lamuela, professor at the Faculty of Pharmacy and Food Sciences of the University of Barcelona, and member of the Institute for Nutrition and Food Safety Research (INSA-UB), located in the Nutrition and Food Torribera Campus, and the Physiopathology of Obesity and Nutrition Networking Biomedical Research Centre (CIBEROBN).

New research from King’s Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine has found that eating a handful of wild blueberries daily has health benefits, including lowered blood pressure, faster reaction time, and improved memory and brain cognition.

Currently, doctors use measures such as heart chamber size and systolic function to diagnose and monitor cardiomyopathy and other related heart issues, assessing how round the heart is, called cardiac sphericity, may be a new approach to add to the toolbox according to research published in the journal Med.