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Newsletter Articles - Important news relevant to aging optimally This is an archive of the lead articles of our Senior Fitness Newsletter, from January 2010 onward.

1. Avoidance of Serious Disease; Strategies for Seniors by Frank Wilhelmi Post Date: 08/24/2010 Not getting sick is a high priority for seniors, because for the elderly, opportunistic infection is often the last push that closes the door on life. In today’s email we consider three avenues to better health and maintaining a properly functioning immune system. The first article deals with yet more discoveries about the benefits of vitamin D sufficiency. Getting our vitamin D bl ...more...

2. High fructose corn syrup: New evidence points to increased diabe... by Chi-Tang Ho, Ph.D. Post Date: 08/09/2010 Rutgers University - New Brunswick, N.J. Thursday, Aug. 23, 2007 Researchers have found new evidence that soft drinks sweetened with high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) may contribute to the development of diabetes, particularly in children. In a laboratory study of commonly consumed carbonated beverages, the scientists found that drinks containing the syrup had high levels of reacti ...more...

3. Genes, Gene Expression and Type-2 Diabetes by Frank Wilhelmi Post Date: 01/19/2010 I ran across two news articles on the topic of genes that make us susceptible to developing type-2 diabetes later in life as part of the aging process. The point of this email is that you don’t have to be a victim of genetic variants; you may be more susceptible, but you don’t have to accept it as your fate. The variants discussed are called Single-Nucleotide Polymorphism variants or S ...more...