Posts Tagged ‘Cognitive Performance’

Red Yeast Rice, Tea and Orange Juice

Posted by Healthy And Fit on September 17th, 2009

Red Yeast Rice

There’s a newly posted website that says red yeast rice, which I have written about before, and am now taking regularly, is dangerous, because it really is a statin, and can cause severe muscle pains and muscle weakness, just like a statin.

Learn more about statins here.

The adverse reaction, according to the website, is because statins deprive us of co-enzyme Q-10 (which I discontinued taking recently.)

The website also says there is no reason to take statins to lower cholesterol, because cholesterol is good for you!

Well.

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High fruit/vegetable = high cognitive performance

Posted by Healthy And Fit on September 9th, 2009

High fruit and vegetable intake positively correlated with antioxidant status, cognitive performance

Researchers at the Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology I of the Heinrich-Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany, investigated the relationship between fruit and vegetable intake, plasma antioxidant micronutrient status and cognitive performance in healthy subjects aged 45 to 102 years.

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