Colorful fruits, vegetables may be key to cancer-fighting diet

Many cancer-fighting fruits and vegetables are at their nutritional peak in the fall, and it’s a good time to incorporate them into your diet.

For example, research suggests that eating an apple a day really may keep the doctor away, by helping to prevent throat, mouth, lung and possibly breast cancer, noted Stacy Kennedy, a senior nutritionist at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston.

Why loneliness can be deadly

Loneliness may be much more than a passing mood. Experts say that living alone or feeling lonely may put people at a higher risk of dying from cardiovascular problems, such as heart attack and stroke, as well as disability.
Are you lonely tonight? Or are you alone? The difference is huge. Being alone is solitude; feeling alone is loneliness. In most cases, solitude is voluntary. Individuals, at times, seek solitude from time to time to reflect on their lives, to solve problems, to get in touch with what matters to them. Writers and other artists need time alone to think, to plan, to create. So do many scientists and knowledge workers.

How healthy are fruit juices?

When selecting a pack of fruit juice, buyers need to beware. Many of the so-called juice packs contain little natural juice and have more added sugar than anything

else. And even when it is 100 per cent juice, experts say that they lack the fibre of whole fruit, making them less healthy.