Frank Whittemore on March 8th, 2010

Vitamin D is vital in activating human defenses and low levels suffered by around half the world’s population may mean their immune systems’ killer T cells are poor at fighting infection, scientists said on Sunday…

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Frank Whittemore on March 7th, 2010

In a commentary on the new studies, published Jan. 25 in The Archives of Internal Medicine, two geriatricians, Dr. Marco Pahor of the University of Florida and Dr. Jeff Williamson of Winston-Salem, N.C., pointed to “the power of higher levels of physical activity to aid in the prevention of late-life disability owing to either cognitive impairment or physical impairment, separately or together.”

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Frank Whittemore on March 6th, 2010

More Americans now drink sugar-sweetened sodas, sport drinks and fruit drinks daily, and this increase in consumption has led to more diabetes and heart disease…

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Frank Whittemore on March 5th, 2010

Some of you know that in addition to posting on Blogging Life Extension, I also post on a website called Blogging the Singularity. The accelerating rate of technological change is the driving force behind both blogs.

To see some of the articles posted on Blogging the Singularity, click on any of the highlighted articles listed below -

Craig Venter Talks about Creating Synthetic Life!

A Reading List for Futurists.

Dr. Michio Kaku on Nanotechnology.

The Post-American World by Fareed Zakaria.

The Fourth Revolution.

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Frank Whittemore on March 4th, 2010

New advice from the American Cancer Society puts a sharper focus on the risks of prostate cancer screening, emphasizing that annual testing can lead to unnecessary biopsies and treatments that do more harm than good…

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Frank Whittemore on March 3rd, 2010

Fish oil supplements are constantly touted for their seemingly miraculous health benefits because they contain omega-3 fatty acids. But…

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When the US restricted stem cell research in the early part of the century that research didn’t die, it emigrated. All over the world, scientists continued to explore the efficacies of embryonic and adult stem cells with…

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Frank Whittemore on March 1st, 2010

Mission Statement -

“In the coming decades, humanity will likely create a powerful artificial intelligence. The Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence (SIAI) exists to confront this urgent challenge, both the opportunity and the risk.”

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Since our ever increasing rate of technological change is a driving force behind Life Extension, we should all be familiar with the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence and its mission statement which I quoted above.

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Frank Whittemore on February 28th, 2010

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Frank Whittemore on February 27th, 2010

The description “rare” is often a misnomer — although an individual might have a one in a million disease, there are some 7,000 recognized rare diseases…

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