The expo offers something for almost everyone. While not everyone is into alternative medicine many of the ideas are interesting. One booth’s message was that some mental illnesses including schizophrenia can be cured using diet changes. Other medicine booths claimed to have cures for common ailments.

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These “occasional” vegetarians, who are also called flexitarians, can be categorized into two groups, semi-vegetarians and meat reducers.

While semi-vegetarians follow a vegetarian diet part of the time, but still eat some meat and dairy products, meat reducers are not trying to follow a vegetarian diet, but are just trying to reduce the amount of meat they eat.

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Frog Stretch

A frog stretch is a great exercise for an athlete looking to increase thigh strength, since it works a lot of the muscles inside the thigh, and in the groin area. For this exercise, you should lie on the ground with your arms down to your sides, keep the palms facing upward, and allow for your heels to touch each other. The heels should then be extended upward to the groin area, while keeping the knees in a relaxed position, and hold this pose for 10 seconds. Move back to starting position, then repeat the frog stretch 10 times, making sure to hold the position each repetition.

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A daily multivitamin and mineral supplement with added herbal ingredients may boost memory in older women, but no effects were seen for other mental processes, suggest data from a randomized controlled trial from Australia.

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This study explored the hypothesis that children who regularly drank green tea would have fewer cases of influenza those children who did not drink green tea. They chose children for two reasons: there is little research with children and influenza prevention; the children lived on or near tea plantations in Japan.

With over 2,600 children in the study, the researchers discovered that children who drank, on average, five cups of green tea per week had significantly fewer cases of influenza when compared to those who drank almost no green tea. Those who drank the most green tea (about one cup per day) also had significantly fewer sick days from school. The results were so conclusive that the researchers concluded that the regular consumption of green tea is protective against influenza infections during the influenza season.

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The final version of a spending bill released late Monday would unravel school lunch standards the Agriculture Department proposed earlier this year, which included limiting the use of potatoes on the lunch line and delaying limits on sodium and delaying a requirement to boost whole grains.

The bill also would allow tomato paste on pizzas to be counted as a vegetable, as it is now. USDA had wanted to prevent that.

Food companies that produce frozen pizzas for schools, the salt industry and potato growers requested the changes, and some conservatives in Congress say the federal government shouldn’t be telling children what to eat.

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“There is a widely held belief that snacking cannot be a part of a healthy diet,” said study researcher Claire A. Zizza, an associate professor of nutrition at Auburn University in Alabama.

But the study showed that the more a person snacked, the more likely he or she was to eat both healthy snacks and healthy meals, Zizza said. “The increase was slight, but was still apparent.”

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One lucky entrant will win the “My Time Package” which includes: an overnight stay in a Deluxe Guestroom; a one hour spa treatment plus access to the Wet Spa facilities within K Spa; and full English breakfast in K West’s modern restaurant, Kanteen. The restaurant serves a wide range of beautifully prepared cuisine using the freshest ingredients, whilst K Lounge is the perfect place to relax and enjoy a cocktail.

K West’s holistic spa is one of London’s premier spas, featuring the first “Snow Paradise” in the Capital. Guests can also enjoy the Hydrotherapy Pool, Sauna, Sanarium, Steam room, Experience Showers, and Herbal Foot Baths.

You can register by visiting the Metro Radio website.

Big news for anyone born after the year 2000: They’ll probably live to 100, according to research from Denmark. That’s roughly 20 years longer than the life expectancy of the rest of us. But we could live that long, too, says Dr. Walter Bortz II, a clinical associate professor of medicine at Stanford University: “What’s holding us back are bad habits.”

Luck and genetics play roles in longevity, of course, but you can’t control that. To hike your odds of hitting 100, focus on what you can do, like loading up on fruits and veggies (add five years), working out five days a week (add two to four years), and cutting down on stress (may add up to six years).

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Researchers from the University of Minnesota examined data from more than 38,000 women taking part in the Iowa Women’s Health Study, an ongoing study with women who were around age 62 at its start in 1986. The researchers collected data on the women’s supplement use in 1986, 1997 and 2004.

Women who took supplements had, on average, a 2.4 percent increased risk of dying over the course of the 19-year study, compared with women who didn’t take supplements, after the researchers adjusted for factors including the women’s age and calorie intake.

One possible reason, according to the researchers: some supplements contain high concentrations of minerals that can build up in the body to toxic levels.

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