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The secret to a long life from the oldest man alive

BY CHRISTINE SAVOIA NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM Jiroemon Kimura put fictional hobbit Bilbo Baggins’ 111th birthday to shame when he turned 115 on April. Very much alive, the Kyotango City, Japanese citizen is one of 68 supercentenarians – individuals over the age of 110 – and now also claims the title of the world’s oldest livng man, according

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Gum disease may cause heart disease

A new Taiwanese study, published in The American Journal of Medicine, suggests that adults who have good dental hygiene have lower risk of heart disease. Most of the gum diseases are caused by bacterial infection. These infections may cause inflammation in blood vessels and eventually increase the risk of heart disease.     So take

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