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Tomato special: the red medicine
2008-01-18 11:34:00
Lycopene it is called and it gives the tomato its red color. This natural pigment is also found inside other red fruits. The more red, the more lycopene. Lycopene is also used to color foods. Then the additive is called E160d in Europe. Lycopene is a powerful anti-oxidant. An anti-oxidant is a molecule that quickly neutralizes damage to our DNA caused by faulty cell division. Faulty cell division can in some instances cause cancer, especially prostrate cancer. Researchers at Harvard University investigated the eating habits of 50.000 men for 12 years. Their conclusion was that tomato eaters had 16 percent less chance if prostate cancer than non tomato eaters. But then they shouldn’t eat just raw tomatoes. Because lycopene is better absorbed by the body in boiled form, like in soups, juices and sauces. The colorful anti-oxidant does not disappear from the body easily. Someone who uses a few liters of tomato juice per day over an extended period, can literally color red.
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Eating with the family makes healthier eaters
2008-01-17 19:34:00
If you eat a lot together with your family when growing up, then probably everything will be okay with your eating habits later in life. At the University of Minnesota researchers followed 1500 adolescents who were attending high school. A few years later, when they were 20 years old, they were questioned again. The researchers ...
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Loneliness effects the immune system
2008-01-16 11:06:00
Lonely people have a lower life expectancy. Research has revealed the reason for this. The immune system of chronic lonely people changes. The expression of genes that fire up the immune system and cause inflammatory reactions become stronger and the expression of genes which help with the building of anti bodies and the cleaning up ...
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Smokers have higher risk of erectile dysfunction
2008-01-15 11:58:00
Yet another good reason to quit smoking for real this time: men who smoke more than 20 cigarettes per day have 60% more chance of having erectile dysfunction than non smokers. A study done by the Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine in New Orleans among 5000 Chinese men showed that, after ...
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Liposuction does not reduce hart disease risk
2008-01-14 10:50:00
When you remove fat from the body through liposuction your risk of heart disease does not diminish. According to researchers at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis the risk of heart disease, high blood pressure or diabetes is not reduced after liposuction. With liposuction only local fat is removed that is located under the skin. Fat around the organs and in the blood vessels stays put. Furthermore after liposuction the body produces less of the hormone leptin that regulates the feeling of hunger, which can cause an increase in appetite. It is not unthinkable that you would eat more than before the liposuction, which can have negative effects on health. Good clinics try to help their liposuction clients by also giving sport and diet advice.
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Salt crystals good for infectious skin disease
2008-01-13 11:16:00
Skin problems? Take a bath is the Dead Sea is a common heard advice. The salt water is supposed to be beneficial. But is this really true? According to doctor Bing Thio of the Erasmus Medical Center in Holland the salt has no beneficial effects on the skin. It dehydrates the skin and that causes itchiness because it attracts moist. But a salty bath can help with skin conditions like eczema, psoriasis and other infectious diseases. Salt reflects light in all directions, because it is a crystal. Because of that the light gets to the skin more dispersed when there is salt on the skin. With some skin diseases like psoriasis and eczema the immune system is working too hard. And light suppresses the activity of the immune system. So the benefits of salt for the skin lie in the fact that it is a crystal. In theory you could also use sugar, but that would not be so practical, because that gets very sticky.
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The secret of happiness
2008-01-12 11:55:00
Happiness is not found in luxurious holidays, fast cars or expensive flat screen televisions. We find true happiness in a nice afternoon nap, beautiful music or a good glass of wine. This is concluded by researchers at the University of Nottingham. The British National Lottery asked them to investigate how satisfied lottery winners and a ...
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Smoking does not make your lose weight
2008-01-11 11:27:00
For many smokers the appetite inhibiting effect of smoking is a good excuse not to quit. Especially many women don’t quit because of this argument. Furthermore, a study done by the University of Michigan shows that staying slim is a reason for many women to start smoking. But this is a myth: smoking does not ...
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The dangers of eating too much salt
2008-01-10 17:27:00
Every adult has about 250 grams of salt is his body. That’s about 3 to 4 salt shakers. Salt is necessary in the body to transfer nerve impulses, among other things. To stay healthy we need to ingest about 1 to 2 grams of salt per day. But research shows we eat a lot more, ...
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Broccoli the cancer killer
2008-01-09 11:38:00
A simple vegetable broccoli. It is full of sulforafan, a substance that multiplies the natural defenses against cancer in the body. Young broccoli sprouts are even better, because they contain 50 times more sulforafan than broccoli. And if you can find it, purple broccoli, the ancestor of normal green broccoli, is even more healthier than ...
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Lower blood pressure with meditation
2008-01-08 11:22:00
You can make your blood pressure go down, by just closing your eyes and meditate. The publication Archives of Internal Medicine recently published proof for this. In the study that they published, the systolic blood pressure of some people dropped by three mercury points through a meditation program.
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The benefits of tea
2008-01-07 11:12:00
The health benefits of tea are so numerous, that a daily cup of tea should almost be obligatory. But what kind of tea is the best? Look at the color. Black tea helps against bad breath and high cholesterol. White tea helps battle infections and red tea helps against allergies. Green tea improves the immune system, protects against ...
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Lower blood pressure with pomegranate juice
2008-01-06 11:00:00
In the Middle East pomegranate juice has been drunk for decades already and the western countries are just catching on. Pomegranate juice is full of powerful antioxidants. Drinking 60ml of pomegranate juice per day for a year is enough to make your systolic blood pressure drop by 21% and improve the blood flow in the ...
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Açai berry kills cancer cells
2008-01-05 11:48:00
The taste of the açai berry is something like a mix of cherries and burrs with a hint of chocolate, but the benefits of this South American berry are even more inviting. These dark purple berries have destroyed cancer cells, which is shown in a recent study done by the University of Florida. The tests ...
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Health benefits of quiting smoking
2008-01-04 11:36:00
Of every two smokers, one will die of the illnesses caused by this very bad habit. And smoking makes you stink as well. So stop smoking. It will immediately give you health benefits. Twenty minutes after your last cigarette your blood pressure and heart beat are back to normal and within a few months the entire blood circulation will have improved. The benefits are even greater on the long term. A year after quiting the risk of a heart attack will have halved. En after 10 years the chance of lung cancer will have halved too.
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Lose weight, have breakfast
2008-01-03 11:24:00
Breakfast is a very special meal: those who always skip breakfast, have a bigger chance of being obese. So have breakfast. But what ’s the best thing to have for breakfast? A good choice is skimmed yogurt with muesli and fresh fruit. This contains little saturated fats, lots of carbohydrates, which are good for concentration, ...
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Three breathing tips for relaxing
2008-01-02 14:07:00
When you are nervous or tense, people always say “keep breathing”. And it’s true that when you are nervous, tense or stressed you tend to breathe very shallow, in the top part of your chest or forget to breathe at all. Now nobody feels better or more relaxed when you are half suffocating yourself by ...
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Lower your cholesterol by eating more eggs
2007-12-31 10:47:00
Even though it is said that eggs contain cholesterol, research has shown that eggs actually lower cholesterol levels. A study at the University of Connecticut done with people who ate three or more eggs per day showed that the cholesterol particles in their blood were larger that the cholesterol particles in the blood of people ...
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Drink water, lose weight
2007-12-30 11:30:00
You can take drugs like ephedrine or diet pills to lose weight, but the best way to lose weight is water. Dehydration is often mistaken for hunger. So if you feel hungry in between meals, try drinking a glass of water first before eating something. There are other ways to profit from the full feeling ...
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Fight or prevent depression with exercise
2007-12-29 23:28:00
Every year millions of people get prescribed anti depressives, but the first option to get rid of depression should be exercise. Because even a little exercise increases the amount of a stimulating compound called phenethylamine in the brain. Depressed people have very little of this substance which gives you a feeling of euphoria. This substance ...
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Three easy tips to improve your diet
2007-12-28 23:49:00
Here are three easy tips to help you improve your diet and make your lifestyle and diet more healthy and will also help you to lose weight: Drink more water: you should drink at least 6 to 8 glasses of fluid per day and it is even better when this fluid is water. Water contains zero ...
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Three easy tips to eat less
2007-12-13 15:35:00
Not only the food on your plate, but also the surroundings decide how much you will eat. Here are three easy tips for eating a bit less: Turn off the tv while eating. When you are distracted while eating, by the tv for examaple, your brain has more trouble recognizing the signals of your body that ...
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Mushrooms enhance the immune system
2007-12-13 15:20:00
Fortify your immune system with mushrooms, they can protect you against diseases. This is the result of a research done at Tuft University in Massachusetts. Mice whose diet included champignon mushrooms had more active ‘natural killer cells’, white bloodcells which fight viruses and cancer cells. According to the author of this research report 150 grams ...
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Fish against cancer
2007-12-13 15:04:00
When you eat fish one time per week, you have 4% less risk of colon cancer. And every time more you eat fish per week, your risk goes down with another 4%. This is the result of a meta study done by the University of Wageningen in Holland. How exactly the fish protects you is ...
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Wash your apple instead of peeling it
2007-12-12 16:26:00
It’s is better to wash an apple before you eat it than to peel it, because the peel contains triterpenoids. Triterpenoids are antioxidants which have shown in laboratory tests that they slow the growth of different kinds of cancer cells. Science does not know the full potential of this substance yet, but it could be ...
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Cut your cancer risk in half
2007-12-12 16:00:00
Here is an eye opener for you: at least half of all instances of cancer are caused by a unhealthy lifestyle. This is the conclusion of a study done by the Dutch Cancer Foundation. The biggest risk factors are: smoking alcohol excess weight bad nutrition too much sun too little exercise And not, like many people assume, the environment or hereditary factors.
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Average toilet seat cleaner than telephone
2007-12-12 15:44:00
On a desk there are 400 times more microbes (bacteria, viruses, fungi and parasites) than on a toilet seat according to a study done by the University of Arizona. An average telephone is the dirtiest followed by the keyboard and then the mouse. When you have a cold, it all gets worse. Some viruses can ...
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How to drink a soft drink
2007-12-06 15:16:00
Tell me how you drink a soft drink and I will tell you where you will get cavities in your teeth. This is the message of Mohammed Bassiouny, professor at Temple University in Philadelphia, USA. In an article in General Dentistry he describes the mouths of two teenagers. The first is a 18 year old ...
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Watch the calories when eating healthy
2007-12-06 14:51:00
Eating healthy is good, but a study by the American Cornell University and the Institut Européen d’Administration de Affaires shows that people who order something that is labeled as healthy by a restaurant tend to order drinks, side dishes and desserts which are rich in calories. The theory is that you think you have already ...
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Fresh brew coffee machines bad for cholesterol levels
2007-12-05 17:55:00
In coffee there is a substance called cafestol that naturally occurres in coffee beans. Is has been known for quite some time that cafestol increases cholesterol levels and thus increases the risk of a heart attack. At home people mostly drink filter coffee. Filtered coffee contains a lot less cafestol than coffee from fresh brew ...
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