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REGION: Program helps residents make significant diet changes

REGION: Program helps residents make significant diet changes
A handful of North County residents say an innovative healthprogram has helped them quit craving foods rich in fat, sugar andsalt and embrace a largely vegan diet.

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Aging, Longevity Tied To Specific Brain Region

Aging, Longevity Tied To Specific Brain Region
Researchers watched two groups of mice, both nearing the end of a two-day fast. One group was quietly huddled together, but the other group was active and alert. The difference? The second set of mice had been engineered so their brains produced more SIRT1, a protein known to play a role in aging and longevity.“This result surprised us,” says the study’s senior author Shin-ichiro Imai, MD, PhD …

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Aging and longevity linked to specific brain region in mice

Aging and longevity linked to specific brain region in mice
Washington, July 29 : In a study on mice engineered to produce a protein showed that a specific brain region, called the hypothalamus governs aging and longevity.

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Aging and longevity tied to specific brain region in mice

Aging and longevity tied to specific brain region in mice
Researchers watched two groups of mice, both nearing the end of a two-day fast. One group was quietly huddled together, but the other group was active and alert. The difference? The second set of mice had been engineered so their brains produced more SIRT1, a protein known to play a role in aging and longevity.

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Region Briefs

Region Briefs
RIFLE (AP) – Searchers have found the body of a young man in the Colorado River near Rifle. The Garfield County sheriff’s office said the body of 18-year-old Javier Martin Morales-Reyes was found at 1 p.m. Friday.

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Nature’s Peak to Conduct In-Store Product Tasting and Demonstrations in Whole Foods Market Mid-Atlantic Region

Nature’s Peak to Conduct In-Store Product Tasting and Demonstrations in Whole Foods Market Mid-Atlantic Region
Nature’s Peak / Everock, Inc. announced today that it is coordinating with its broker and Whole Foods Market to do product tasting and demonstrations in the Whole Foods Market Mid-Atlantic region stores.

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Fishing Families in Gulf Region Turn to Fast Food, ‘Grind Meats’

Fishing Families in Gulf Region Turn to Fast Food, ‘Grind Meats’
by Vicki Smith POINTE A LA HACHE, La. — Grow up on the water, the children of southern Louisiana learn, and you’ll never go hungry. As long as you can toss a line, a net or a trap, you can eat – and eat well. Or you could, until now. read more

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Local growth: Sustainable agriculture gains traction in the region

Local growth: Sustainable agriculture gains traction in the region
SPRINGVILLEPete Comly’s orders for pasture-raised chickens at Clodhopper Farm jumped 26 percent this year, and grass-fed beef sales will increase 25 percent.”There’s certainly been an uptick in interest,” Mr. Comly, 43, said as he stood in a meadow nex

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Slow pace of justice for G20 accused, including some from Waterloo Region

Slow pace of justice for G20 accused, including some from Waterloo Region
For the young people accused of planning G20 havoc on the streets of Toronto, the wheels of justice are grinding slowly.

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‘Hugging Saint’ draws many from region seeking spiritual guidance

‘Hugging Saint’ draws many from region seeking spiritual guidance
NEW YORK — Amid the bustle and music, Brian McConnell waited patiently to meet Amma, the widely recognized humanitarian leader who became his spiritual anchor after he lost his leg three months ago in an accident.

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