New research out of Germany this week concluded that the elimination of sweets and vitamins could help most people live longer lives. Vitamins, they say?

I've heard of vitamins (when taken in some kind of synergistic methodology) are fantastic for longevity, so this surprises me. Sweets, though? Not so much, and especially when there's refined sugars and nasty high-fructose corn syrup involved.

Restricting glucose was also found to be integral to certain bodily processes that extended life spans up to 25 percent -- but the result looked at worms, not humans.

In an odd twist to the research, the creation of more free radicals was key to longevity and was noticed when glucose restriction was present. Result: the worms under observance then built up long-lasting anti-oxidant defenses against the onslaught of new free radical molecules, which then lingered in their bodies long afterward.