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Vitamins-The answer to Heart Disease?

Vitamins B-12 and Folic acid supplements have been identified as having a pos...elieved to do so by reducing the level of an amino acid called Homocysteine , which has been implicated as the culprit, increasing clot formation in bloo...

Dietary phytonutrients – Secret for the good food to taste ba

...nefits. They are trace chemicals and taste bitter, acid or astringent. If phytonutrients have to be consumed then demands of good taste and good health may be wholly incompatible. The bitter phytonutrients protect the plant against being eaten by harmful herbivores. The plants which contains phyto nutrie...

Be happy: live long

...isease later in life. It also has shown that folic acid may help fight the ravaging affects of the disease, which robs the elderly of cognitive function before killing them. So the next time you decide to live long, remember to stop worrying and be happy!!!...

B Vitamin protects and lowers toxicity of Arthritis Drug

...e investigators found that patients who took folic acid or folinic acid supplements along with the arthritis drug methotrexate were less likely to have a liver related comp...

Dark skin protects

...ot have black skin. Melanin is made from the amino acid tyrosine, which is also needed to build proteins. In prehistoric days when food was scarce in cold, dry areas, tyrosine was probably conserved to make essential proteins, Mackintosh says. It was only worthwhile converting it into extra melanin in the...

B Vitamin Supplementatoin Saves Money and Lives

People with high blood levels of the amino acid homocysteine experience more heart attacks and dea...pensive and safe therapy with the B vitamins folic acid and cyanocobalamin can lower homocysteine levels. Fortifying foods with B vitamins and giving addit...

Wrinkle cure

...rs the production of a chemical called arachidonic acid which can lead to the formation of wrinkles. Vitamin C can easily be added to a diet by consuming more Vitamin C-rich fruits and vegetables such as strawberries, tomatoes, and red bell peppers. There are also foods that should be removed from one's ...

Coronary heart disease bids Adieu

...homocystine levels with a diet supplement of folic acid alone or in combination with cyanocobalamin. Dr.T...of homocystine through grains fortified with folic acid and with cyanocobalamin and folic acid among participants in the third National Health and Nutrition...

A non-stick danger

...ymers can emit a chemical known as trifluoroacetic acid (TFA) which is toxic to plants and does not break down in the environment, a study in today's Nature reveals.TFA is known as a breakdown product of gases that were introduced to replace ozone-destroying chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), but present environ...

Poor diet among smokers

...e of fat was up, while fibre consumption and folic acid were down. These women also drink less water and use more table sweeteners than women who live with non-smokers....

Better Treatment for obesity

...t loss. Oleylethanolamide (OEA) is a type of fatty acid that is produced in the small intestine in response to food. This compound, oleylethanolamide (OEA), could lead to the development of better treatments for eating disorders and obesity. // The effects of OEA are striking and profoundly different fr...

Re-blockage of heart arteries prevented by vitamins

...he vitamins lower levels of homocysteine, an amino acid linked to heart disease and artery blockage. The researchers suggest that there is nothing to stop doctors putting their heart patients on this vitamin research, for it seems to be an effective and inexpensive way of keeping the blood flowing through...

Salt reduction lowers blood pressure

...protein (LDL) and levels of homocysteine, an amino acid linked to heart disease. The DASH diet is high in fruit and vegetables and low fat dairy produce, reduced in total and saturated fat, as well as sugar. The latest report, from researchers at Texas University suggest that DASH is especially powerful...

Olive oil does good

...tective benefits.// They found that it reacts with acid in the stomach to prevent the onset of bowel and r...high meat intake can increase the amount of a bile acid called deoxycyclic acid, which reduced the activity of an enzyme called diamine oxidase (DAO). DAO i...

Hope For Stiff-Person Syndrome

...se marked by high levels of antibodies to glutamic acid decarboxylase (GAD65), an enzyme involved in the production of a movement-regulating neurotransmitter.// Patients are usually treated with Valium (diazepam), which is only mildly successful at controlling symptoms. While the cause of stiff-person syn...

Target for obesity treatment

...similar, except that PPARgamma2 has an extra amino acid on one end. Taking these concepts into consideration, the researchers inhibited roughly 50 percent of the production of the PPARgamma2 form....

Memory loss associated with microbes

...ible. When pfiesteria cysts are put into sulphuric acid they survive for 30 minutes. A human body thrown into sulphuric acid would quickly dissolve....

Dr Reddy’s Laboratories launches Hyalosy

...n Synovial fluid, surrounds the joints. Hyaluronic acid acts as a lubricant that enables bones to move smoothly over each other and also acts as a shock absorber for joints. Hyalosyn is an emerging therapy for osteoarthritis. Hyalosyn will provide the much-needed relief to patients suffering from severe o...

A novel augmentation

...am refined thousands of embryo cells in a retinoic acid solution for five days to draw ot various organs. Modifying the concentration of the retinoic acid led to the stem cells developing into different kinds of cell. Dr Asashima said a lower concentratio...

Comprehension of taste receptor

...to receptors in the brain that recognise the amino acid glutamate and related chemicals.Different T1R genes can be expressed in cells in different combinations to yield cells that respond to a specific taste. For example, T1R2 and T1R3 joined together function as a sweet receptor. The researchers have fo...

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