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Elderberry A Natural Boost to Skin

...ptember, post-menopausal women will consume either extracts from elderberries or placebo capsules, and will have their skins structure and appearance measured with state-of-the-art equipment used by experts in skin science. At the same time, researchers will also test whether the elderberry extract can reduce...

Functional Food What is That, Ask First

...enriched with vitamins and minerals. * Kiwifruit extracts - products designed to relieve the symptoms of common digestive complaints such as constipation and heartburn. * Sports drinks that boost energy. * Functional foods due to be launched include: Cosmetic yoghurts which claim to "nourish the skin fr...

Frustrated With Fad Diets One Man Sets Out to Weed Through The Jungle of Plans

...ng from miracle weight loss formulas to plant root extracts from Indonesia has been pitched to the greater community at large. For better or worse the world is full of so called diet plans that often lead to nothing but frustration. The internet is no exception diet plans pills potions and remedies are offe...

Pumpkins Could Be Showing Insulin Injections The Door Soon

...hina Normal University, have revealed that pumpkin extracts are able to regenerate damaged beta cells of the p...e team had found that diabetic rats fed on pumpkin extracts had only 5 per cent less plasma insulin and 8 per cent fewer insulin-positive (beta) cells than heal...

Significant Advances in VCJD Prion Detection

... can be amplified from infected human brain tissue extracts prepared from normal human platelets - a type of blood cell essential for clotting. The sample is incubated and exposed to repeated rounds of ultrasound, which break the prions up into more numerous smaller particles. The research was carried out ...

'Sweet Herb' may Be Green Gold for Paraguay

..., the company Emporio Guarani, grows the plant and extracts the sweetener in its plant in Luque, 10 kilometers (six miles) outside Asuncion, and is not worried by China's influence on the market. "The land of the stevia is right here," said manager Maria Teresa Aguilera, whose phone has not stopped ringing ...

Tea Pill, Tea Cola Hitting Markets Soon

...oped the exotic health drink and the pill from tea extracts are jubilant with the two products hitting markets...eties. "We have developed two varieties - one from extracts of black tea and the other from green tea to cater to different palates," Hazarika told IANS. "The...

New Technique to Measure Xanthone in Mangosteen

... inflating or manipulating a product with xanthone extracts may not add any value. The mangosteen presents more value in its whole fruit form, as presented in XanGo Juice. There are many other phytochemicals found in the fruit that have beneficial effects which are lost in extraction or jeopardized when the...

Ancient Indian Herb May Prove Cure For Recurrent UTI

... on mice with UTI , it was seen that when the herb extracts were directly injected or placed into the bladder, the recurrence of UTI was almost negligible. This is where the significance of the herb lies, says Abraham. The usual way of treating UTI is with specific antibiotics. Yet recurrence of the disor...

Freezing Kidney Tumors Effective and Less Expensive Than Laparoscopy

...ablation argon gas enters the tip of the probe and extracts heat from the surrounding cells, resulting in an “ice ball” that freezes and kills the tumor. The nonsurgical treatment spares the majority of the healthy kidney tissue and can be repeated as often as needed. This interventional treatment had no majo...

Science Builds Behind Pomegranate Extracts for Health

Standardised pomegranate extracts lead to increased levels of bioactive compounds in...idant levels, says new research that could see the extracts start// to rival the juice for boosting health. Consumption of pomegranate juice has been on the r...

Common Ingredient in Big Macs and Sodas Can Stabilize Gold Nanoparticles for Medical Use

...try and veterinary medicine. The team tested plant extracts for their ability as nontoxic vehicles to stabilize and deliver nanoparticles for in vivo nanomedicinal applications. The researchers became interested in gum arabic, a substance taken from species of the acacia tree, because it is already used to st...

Much Room for Cancer Cure in a Mushroom, Scientists Promise

... patients have been unable to reap the benefits of extracts from the mushroom in treating cancer. It is estimated that about 4,262 patients suffer stomach and bowel cancer in Scotland. The cancer of the Bowel is known to be the second biggest killer and nearly 1500 people succumbed to the disease in 2006 in...

Human Pheromones: Fact and Fiction

...that unidentified chemicals in human male underarm extracts can affect female reproductive hormone secretion (primer pheromone effect) and mood (modulator pheromone effect). But Wysocki notes, 'Because human responses to pheromones and other chemical signals are influenced by our past experiences, context ...

Enviga- Will the Fizz, Fizzle Out?

...anufacture a new drink called Enviga, endowed with extracts of natural// green tea, caffeine and plant micronutrients. This is expected to hit the market next month in America with the USP- help consumers shed excess weight. According the chief scientist of Coke, ‘Enviga’ is capable of enhancing the number ...

The Cup That Cheers and Cures

...s found that the majority of tea compounds and tea extracts reduced the numbers of human breast, colon, live and prostate cancer cell lines as well as normal human liver cells. The growth of normal human lung cells was not inhibited.Although the study published in the Journal of Food and Agricultural Chemi...

Mining of Ancient Herbal Text Leads to Potential New Anti-Bacterial Drug

...anti-bacterial properties. Early results show that extracts from the Atun tree effectively control bacteria that can cause diarrhea, as claimed by naturalist Georg Eberhard Rumpf, circa 1650. He documented his traditional healing methods in the book Ambonese Herbal. The Mayo Clinic-led team’s report appears...

Ancient Herbal Text Paves the Way to Novel Anti-bacterial Drug

...cterial properties. Early findings have shown that extracts from the Atun tree was able to control bacteria that triggered diarrhea, as claimed by naturalist Georg Eberhard Rumpf, circa 1650. He has recorded this conventional healing method in the book Ambonese Herbal. The Mayo Clinic-led team's report appe...

Mining of Ancient Herbal Text Leads to Potential New Anti-Bacterial Drug

...anti-bacterial properties. Early results show that extracts from the Atun tree effectively control bacteria that can cause diarrhea, as claimed by naturalist Georg Eberhard Rumpf, circa 1650. He documented his traditional healing methods in the book Ambonese Herbal. The Mayo Clinic-led team’s report appears ...

Berries Boosts Brain Power: Study

...h Service (ARS) funded research suggest that berry extracts may protect damages to brain functions//. The Re...ound that laboratory animals, which were fed berry extracts and then treated to accelerate the aging process, were protected from damage to brain function. ...

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