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Extra zinc for elderly leads to less infections
2008-02-18 11:37:00
55 Healthy seniors received a supplement of 45mg zinc (gluconate) daily or a placebo. In this study that lasted a year the susceptibility to infections, zinc levels, oxidative stress and factors that leads to infections were monitored. At the start of the study the subjects had low zinc levels and a negative oxidative stress and ...
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Testosterone does not make more vital
2008-02-17 11:47:00
With many men it starts in their forties. They get more forgetful, loose muscle strength, get a small belly and the sex life goes down a few notches. Is this because of a lower production of the testosterone hormone? To test this the University Medical Center Utrecht conducted an experiment. For six months a group ...
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Vitamin D and calcium equals less cancer
2008-02-16 11:24:00
The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition published the results of a study that investigated if high doses of vitamin D combined with calcium can reduce the risk of cancer. The study lasted 4 years and included 1180 women of 55 years and older, which were divided into three distinct groups. One group received 1500 grams ...
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Be careful with combining fish and spinach
2008-02-15 11:16:00
It is recommended not to eat spinach or lettuce with fish. This is the advice of the Dutch Nutrition Center after the introduction of a product which contains fish and spinach. The Nutrition Center states that the combination of the nitrate in spinach in combination with fish can release unhealthy substances. These substances in large ...
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Coenzyme Q10 can lower blood pressure
2008-02-14 11:08:00
Two studies show that ingesting extra amounts of coenzyme Q10 can lower high blood pressure. In the first study performed in the States, 83 people with high blood pressure got 60mg of coenzyme Q10 two times per day or a placebo. After 12 weeks the median systolic blood pressure of the group who got the ...
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Ginkgo biloba and longevity
2008-02-13 11:31:00
French researchers followed 3534 65+ year olds for 13 years. 888 Of these people used nootropics at the start of the study. Nootropics are medicines of herbs that are supposed to enhance the memory. 225 Of these used ginkgo biloba. Every two years test were performed to determine possible dementia or alzheimer’s disease. It was ...
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Light soft drinks can cause metabolic syndrome too
2008-02-12 11:08:00
Drinking the light version of soft drinks increases your chances of getting metabolic syndrome. Light soft drinks are in that respect as bad as eating deep fried foods. A western diet, which is rich in fats, sugars and red meat, increases the chances of metabolic syndrome with 18%. A healthy diet with lots of vegetables, fruit, ...
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Precut packed lettuce only fresh for 2 days
2008-02-11 11:35:00
Precut and packed in bags lettuce often looses it freshness after 2 days. At the best by date the lettuce is already in a terrible state. The dutch consumer organization claims this after investigating prepacked lettuce. Different kinds of lettuce in various supermarkets were checked for freshness and quality. On the day of purchase the lettuce ...
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Smoking cannabis causes inflammation of the gums
2008-02-11 11:02:00
Smoking cannabis can lead to inflammation of the gums or gingivitis. It has been known for a while that smoking often causes problems with the gums. But now it has been shown that smoking cannabis is also bad for your gums. One out of three cases of gum inflammation can be attributed to the extensive use ...
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Lifting weights as good as running for fat loss
2008-02-10 11:30:00
By lifting weights you can burn as many calories as with running or jogging. Also exercising the muscles can work preventive for diabetes. A British research shows that you train certain muscles with weight training, which also use energy and burn calories while you are resting. These are a different kind of muscles than those that ...
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Quality of sleep worse for smokers
2008-02-09 11:01:00
The sleep of smokers is less deep than that of non-smokers and smokers feel often less rested after a full night of sleep. Brain scans of smokers show that at night they experience light withdrawal symptoms. This causes a light disturbance of the sleep. Also nicotine makes it harder to fall asleep. Forty middle-aged smokers participated in ...
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Soft drinks can cause gout
2008-02-08 11:52:00
Men who drink large amounts of soft drinks or other drinks that are rich in sugar have a higher risk of gout. British researchers discovered that men who drink two or more glasses of soft drink daily had more than 85% more chance to get the joint effecting disease gout. Gout has been on the rise ...
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Calcium pills can increase chance of heart attack
2008-02-07 11:43:00
Taking calcium pills to prevent decalcification of the bones can double the risk of a heart attack. This is shown by a research published in the British Medical Journal. According to the researchers the extra calcium can lead to calcium deposits in the arteries. This increases the chance of a heart attack. Researchers at the University ...
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Young alcohol drinker often gets metabolic syndrome
2008-02-06 11:06:00
Those who have drunk too much alcohol in their youth or young adulthood have greater risk of getting metabolic syndrome later in life. This is the result of an American study among 2800 adults. Of those who drank a lot of alcohol during puberty and started young with drinking, the majority suffered from obesity, cholesterol problems ...
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Work stress can cause heart attack
2008-02-05 11:26:00
If you are suffering from a lot of stress at work, then the risk of a heart attack can increase by two thirds. Relaxed employees don’t run that extra risk. When the pressure at work increases, also the risk for coronary heart disease increases. This serious condition disturbs the circulation of blood in the heart muscle. ...
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Bad lifestyle affects ability to have children
2008-02-04 11:08:00
Many couples who have problems to get pregnant in a natural way can do something about it themselves. Lifestyle seems to be a major influence on the conception. The normal of people who seek medical help for conceiving has increased the last years. Many of them can prevent fertility issues by leading a healthier lifestyle. Especially to quit smoking and passive smoking and losing weight can help. But also the age that women try to get pregnant these days contributes to the difficulties. These factors contribute to the fact that women need to wait longer before they get pregnant. Non smokers conceive on average in about 2 to 3 months. Smokers need to wait 5 to 6 months. Also ivf is affected by an unhealthy lifestyle. The chance that ivf succeeds is 50% lower for smokers and passive smokers than non smokers.
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The basics of a healthy lifestyle
2008-02-03 11:21:00
The basics of a healthy lifestyle are in essence quite simple, but in the treadmill of daily life they are easily forgotten. The three areas that need to be addressed in order to improve your life the healthy way are: Diet & Nutrition Exercise Relaxation Diet & Nutrition You are what you eat is often said. And it is as true now as it has always been. Modern science has shown us that your body renews itself about every 7 years. This means that you are not the same person you were 7 years ago. Every molecule in your body has been replaced with another that you have somehow ingested in the last 7 years. Being through food, drink or breathing. That’s why it is so important to monitor what you put in your mouth. If you eat a lot of junk food, drink a lot of alcohol and smoke for example you are filling your body with toxins and your body after a while will be build from toxins, paving the way for all the modern diseases to kick in, like cancer, cardiovascular disease, hig...
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Being content is better than being happy
2008-02-02 11:26:00
People that are content with their life often achieve more than people who are in general very happy. And on average they also live longer. A strong feeling of happiness doesn’t make people more successful or mentally fit. This is reported by American researchers. In total 120.000 people from all over the world were examined. Those who were just content with their life were earning more money and got higher grades in school. Those people who graded their life with a 9 or 10 and who said they were often very happy, had less success in their lives. They did have more stable relationships though than those people who were less happy. They did have more physical health complaints. The explanation for the differences is not evident, say the researchers. They think that people who often feel very happy are more likely to accept their situation and don’t try to get further in life. Also they might be inclined to take their health less seriously due to their optimistic outlook.
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Smoking cannabis is just as bad as 20 cigarettes
2008-02-01 11:04:00
The smoke from a cannabis cigarette (joint) carries the same cancer risk as that of 20 cigarettes. The more often someone smokes cannabis, the greater the risk for lung cancer. That smoking cannabis is more dangerous than smoking normal tobacco was already know, but researchers in New Zealand have proved exactly how dangerous. Those test subjects ...
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Increase cartenoid intake by adding fatty acids
2008-01-31 11:51:00
Fresh and brightly colored vegetables, like the ones you often find in salsa sauce and other exotic salads, are rich in cartenoids. Cartenoids are powerful anti-oxidants which help to decrease your risk of cancer, cardiovascular disease or cataract. To fully enjoys the benefits of the cartenoids you have to combine them with some fat. Scientists of Ohio State University discovered that people who ate a salad that had half an avocado (which is rich in good fats) in it, absorbed 10 times more beta-carotene and lutein than those who ate a salad without avocado. Beta-carotene can be found in carrots and lutein in spinach. Eating avocado with salsa increased the absorption of the lycopene from the tomatoes in the salsa almost fivefold. Fatty acids help the intestines to absorb the cartenoids into your body. Furthermore these fats are an essential part of the lipoprotein that take care of the transport of the cartenoids in the blood. So every time you eat brightly colored vegetables ad...
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Burn fat, exercise your back
2008-01-30 17:01:00
Training your back can help your loose fat. Your fat burning capabilities are higher when you train a lot of muscle fibers. And there are no bigger muscles than the big back muscles (latissimus dorsi), also know as the lats. So train your back by doing pull ups to enlarge your lats and increase your fat burning.
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Fast senior lives longer
2008-01-29 11:45:00
Seniors who walk faster have a higher chance of living 10 years more than seniors who walk slower. A research at the University of Pittsburgh has shown this. Nine years ago the walking pace of a group of American senior citizens was measured. Of all the people who walked slower than 2,4 kilometers an hour, ...
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Lack of sleep increases diabetes risk
2008-01-27 11:00:00
Short nights have more serious consequences than just feeling tired. People who sleep too little have a higher risk of developing diabetes. This was discovered by scientists at the Columbia University in New York. They investigated the development of diabetes over a period of 10 years. People who slept on average 5 hours or less per night developed diabetes more often than people who slept 7 hours on average. Lack of sleep reduces the sensitivity of the body to the hormone insulin, say the researchers. Insulin removes glucose from the blood. Also lack of sleep causes the body to make more of the stress hormone cortisol. Cortisol raises the glucose level in the blood in such a way that a normal amount of insulin is not enough to remove the glucose from the blood. Because of this people develop type 2 diabetes. Remarkably people who stayed in bed 9 hours or more also had an increased chance of diabetes.
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Caffeine dangerous during pregnancy
2008-01-26 11:57:00
Women have an increased risk of a miscarriage if they drank a lot of drinks containing caffeine every day during the first months of their pregnancy. Women who drank 200 mg of caffeine (about two cups of coffee) or more daily, doubled the risk compared to women who ingested no caffeine whatsoever. To prevent any risk, women should not drink any beverage that contains caffeine (like coffee, tea and cola) during the first five months of their pregnancy. The scientists who discovered this suspect that caffeine is harmful to the fetus, because the fetus cannot digest the caffeine properly due to a still underdeveloped digestive system. The stimulating compound can lead to narrowing of the blood vessels which can lead to a decrease in blood flow to the placenta.
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Cancer killing combo: fish and broccoli
2008-01-24 11:13:00
Fish is rich in the mineral selenium among others. Selenium heightens the level of thioredoxin reductase (Tr-1), an enzyme that fights cancer. At the same time broccoli is a good source of sulphoraphane, a substance in plants that stimulates Tr-1. When British researchers combined the two foods, they saw that this golden duo was 13 ...
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Try semi skimmed milk for rehydration
2008-01-23 11:43:00
The best sportsdrink comes from the cow according to a recent British research. In this research 11 men drank either semi skimmed milk, the sportsdrink Powerade or water after an intensive workout session. The test subjects who drank the milk excreted less urine than the other test subjects. According to the researchers milk can replenish the shortage of moisture in your body and rehydrate you much faster than either a sportsdrink or water.
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Tomato special: increased fertility
2008-01-22 11:19:00
Pommes d’amour is the french nickname for the tomato. The French have attributed potency increasing effects to the tomato hence that nickname. And there is something to say for that, because the high levels of lycopene in tomatoes seem to have a special effect on men. This is the result of a study done by the Indian Institute of Medical Science in New Delhi. They had 30 infertile men in the ages of 23 till 45 take 4 milligrams of lycopene per day for a period of 3 months. After these months the sperm count had risen dramatically in 66 percent of the men. In 53 percent of the men the movement of the sperm cells was improved by a quarter. And the best: 6 wifes got pregnant in this period. Researchers at the University of Portsmouth proved that lycopene can increase male fertility as well.
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Tomato special: vitamin P aka flavonoids
2008-01-21 11:22:00
Besides being full of vitamins, tomatoes are also rich in flavonoids. There are about 7000 kinds of flavanoids and they used to be called vitamin P. Because of their anti-oxidative properties they would lower the chance of cancer in women. Flavonoids also sabotage the development of fat cells. This was discovered in a research by the University of North Carolina. Is there more good news? Yes, because the Ortho Institute in the Netherlands reports that some flavonoids reduce the chance of a heart attack immediately. But be careful, warn researchers, because too many flavonoids are also not healthy. They can impede the functioning of the thyroid gland.
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Tomato special: full of vitamins
2008-01-20 11:09:00
Tomatoes are full of vitamins. They are rich in vitamin C, vitamin A, vitamin B1, B2 and B6 and the minerals potassium, phosphorus and magnesium. Furthermore they are full of carotene. The body makes vitamin A from carotene. They transport waste products from the body. And they are beneficial for the mucus membranes that can ...
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Tomato special: the green poison
2008-01-19 11:54:00
Tomatoes are toxic! The culprit in the vegetables is called tomatine and it is meant to act as a repellent against diseases, but it is also toxic to humans. But tomatine is only found in green, unripe tomatoes. During the riping process the tomato gets its color and then the tomatine and the poison disappear. ...
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