Health Benefits, Anti-aging Potential Prompts New Interest in Wild Blueberries

Portland, Maine (PRWEB) July 8, 2008 -- The new generation of healthy eaters is eschewing old adages about relying on the usual fruits to keep the doctor away. Instead, they are adopting the Wild Blueberry as their new dietary favorite. Promising research about the Wild Blueberry has encouraged today's eaters to go "wild" over the nutrient-rich fruit. New interest in eating well and maintaining health by eating whole foods, natural foods, and organic foods, as well as getting the optimum number of servings of fruits and vegetables per day, has contributed to the swell of interest, prompting many to seek original ways to integrate Wild Blueberries into their diet.
The nutritional possibilities packed into this single food have created the perfectly delicious storm of interest that suggests a growing number of people consider a dose of Wild Blueberries an everyday essential for health. Promising health benefits of blueberries, and especially Wild Blueberries, include ongoing studies focused on antioxidant activity, anti-aging, cancer prevention, urinary tract health, protection against stroke, and heart and vision health. Recent discoveries that attribute potential health benefits to antioxidants such as anthocyanin, anti-inflammatories and other natural compounds found in the deep blue pigment of Wild Blueberries, are adding to its allure.
Kids have been especially eager to adopt this new appreciation of the Wild Blueberry. The blue color makes food vibrant and fun, and its compact finger-food size offers all types of eating enjoyment. They are also versatile and intensely flavorful -- one of the essential benefits of blueberries that are grown wild. Wild varieties of the berry are known for their unique mixture of sweet and tangy, which creates a delicious burst of flavor that can't be replicated in any other fruit.

Wrinkle Filler

Artes Medical, Inc. (Nasdaq:ARTE), a medical aesthetics company, today announced that it has entered into an exclusive U.S. sales and marketing agreement with Anika Therapeutics Inc. (Nasdaq:ANIK) for Elevess, Anika’s proprietary FDA-approved hyaluronic acid (HA) based temporary dermal filler for the correction of facial wrinkles and folds.

Through this agreement, Artes Medical’s dedicated sales force will market and sell Elevess, the first FDA-approved HA dermal filler for the temporary correction of facial wrinkles that is formulated with an anesthetic for patient comfort, as well as the company’s flagship product, ArteFill, the first and only FDA-approved non-resorbable wrinkle filler for long-lasting correction of smile line wrinkles. As a result, Artes Medical becomes the first and only company in the U.S. with a product portfolio of approved dermal fillers that provide patients with a full range of treatment options.

Under the terms of the agreement, Anika Therapeutics will manufacture Elevess and supply Artes Medical with a fully packaged product. Artes Medical will be responsible for the marketing and sale of Elevess to dermatologists, plastic surgeons and cosmetic surgeons in the U.S.

About Elevess

Anika’s Elevess is the first FDA approved injectable soft-tissue filler to combine hyaluronic acid (HA) and lidocaine, a local anesthetic that improves patient comfort, and provides physicians with a new alternative for their aesthetic practice. Hyaluronic acid is a naturally occurring polymer found throughout the body and is present in the skin, where it supports skin structure and elasticity. Designed for longer durability based on its proprietary cross-linking technology and its high concentration of Anika’s chemically modified hyaluronic acid, Elevess has been approved for sale in the United States, the European Union and Canada.

How to Keep Your Skin Young

How to Keep Your Skin Young
By Elle Del

In order to fight the anti-aging process, it is imperative that you need to focus on your general health. When you are over fifty years old, it is crucial to plan out all of your meals, get at least 7 hours of rest at night, eat a well-balanced diet and work exercise into your life. These easy steps will ensure that your skin stays young and wrinkle-free.

Let's talk about diet first because it is one of the most important things that you can control. Make sure that you buy a lot of fruits and vegetables when you go grocery shopping. Do not purchase foods that are high in fat because they will affect your digestive system. Remind yourself to drink plenty of liquids, both water and juices work as long as they do not contain sugar. If your doctor has recommended that you follow a certain diet, listen to them! If you have not talked to your doctor about what the best diet for your body is, make an appointment today.

Thanks to modern medicine, there are hundreds of anti-aging creams that remove wrinkles, crow's feet, cellulite and under eye circles. Applying the best cream will remove wrinkles and prevent wrinkles in the future! When you are searching for the best anti-aging product, make sure that you find one that is natural and does not contain chemicals. Instead of wasting your time testing all of them, go online and read the reviews!

Another way that you can keep your skin young is to wear less makeup. This is a difficult thing for some women, but any foundation and powder is only going to prevent you r skin from being able to breathe. Look for natural and high quality makeup and do not ever go to sleep without removing the makeup from your face.

If you follow all of the steps above, you will keep your skin young and avoid other consequences that are common as we get older, such as freckles. When you take vacations to beautiful beaches, enjoy your time to relax and live without stress, but try not to overdo your time in the sun because eventually the damage to your skin will be permanent and could lead to diseases such as skin cancer.

Finally, consider options that people use in the eastern part of the world, such as massages that will keep your skin tight and radiant. Most people think that all massages have to be done by professionals, but you can do your own skin massage at home! Just make sure that the massage oil you use is a natural product. Once you finish your skin massage, get some rest and enjoy the new skin that you have in the morning.

Anti Aging Vitamins

For the first time researchers show reversal of an aging marker in the human retina correlated with visual improvement using a nutraceutical matrix

Using a high-output camera to film the back of the human eye, for the first time researchers have shown that a nutraceutical matrix can effectively remove cellular debris from the human eye that accumulates with advancing age and correlated this with significant improvement in visual acuity and night vision in an 80-year-old man.
The patient, an 80-year-old male, came to the eye clinic complaining of loss of night vision. Commonly prescribed nutriceuticals, such as lutein, vitamin E and fish oil were employed with no positive result.

The accumulation of cellular debris in the retina is believed to be the first sign of age-related macular degeneration, an eye disease that robs senior adults of their central vision used for reading or driving, for which there is no cure.

After 5 months on the dietary supplement regimen, five measurable parameters of vision improved to varying but significant degrees including night (contrast) vision, visual acuity, color and side vision. Upon testing, it was also found the patient's mental capacity had improved. The patient said, "My night vision and thinking have gotten much better."

About lipofuscin

Dr. Richer explains that the retina of the eye begins to show signs of retinal aging, usually beginning in the third decade of life, with the progressive accumulation of lipofuscin, the medical term for cellular "garbage" that pollutes cells as they age. Researchers believe lipofuscin is not an innocent bystander – that it generates free radicals, gene mutations and even cell death.

The future

If this paper foretells what is to come, at-risk adults may soon be able to obtain a non-invasive retinal/lipofuscin assessment many decades prior to the development of macular degeneration and even determine which therapies may exert a preventive or reversing effect.