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Three-Part Program To Lower Cholesterol

...LC diet can be boosted by adding soluble fiber and plant stanols and sterols, substances derived from plant...o add fiber to the diet and discusses the value of plant stanols and sterols and which food products have them. In addition to what you eat, how much you ...

Dutch Pharma Firm to Invest $500 mn in India

...he said here at the opening of a new manufacturing plant to produce Purimox that is used to manufacture a v...of the Dutch company, said the present size of the plant was 2,000 tonnes and would be expanded soon by another 3,000 tonnes. "We plan to achieve a market sh...

Yellow Fruits And Vegetables Help In Fight Against Loss Of Eyesight

Researchers from the US have shown that yellow plant pigments play a role in protecting people from developing// age-related macular degeneration (AMD). The study conducted by the scientists at the University of Wisconsin, which has been published in the Journal of Ophthalmology, states that carrots m...

A Plant Used By Ancient Britons Found To Have Properties To Fight Cancer

Researchers have found that plant ‘Woad’, which was once used as war paint by ancien... battle against cancer It was explained that the plant was used to get blue dye for the war paint is a rich source of a compound that fights breast cancer,...

Studies Show That Brain Cells Do Not Regenerate But Remain The Same Throughout

... the cold war tests. By comparing levels of C14 in plant and animal cells with atmospheric levels, it is possible to pinpoint the exact time the cells were born. Jonas Frisén has now teamed up with another Swedish research group from G?teborg University, led by Dr. Peter Eriksson, and scientists from Aus...

Engineering Nutrient-Rich Plants Made For Feasible By New Findings

...the amount of particular metals present in various plant tissues has proved very informative, Guerinot said...ee where the metals are distributed within various plant organs. "We have used X-ray fluorescence microtomography to determine, in vivo, the spatial distr...

Horticultural Therapy Offers Measurable Physical, Mental Benefits

...o doesn’t want to take his medicine can be given a plant to care for and instructed that the water and fert...said. “That way, the child sees first-hand how the plant can thrive with proper care or wilt from neglect.” ? Victims of abuse or the abusers. ? People r...

Curry Could Help Keep Off Alzheimer’

...es from turmeric, is obtained from the root of the plant of the ginger family that grows in the Himalayas. Curcumin besides improving mental performance and helping to ward off Alzheimer’s has also been found to fight cancers. When used in combination with drugs it can prevent spread of breast cancer, a...

Common Indian Herbs can Help to Prevent Cancer

... to destroy these free radicals. Although every plant contains some enzyme or the other, some Indian herbs and plants like mint, tulsi, the thorny babul (Acacia Arabica) and gokhru (Tribullus terristris) have sufficient amounts of anti-cancer enzymes, Sharma said. "We are already through with our res...

Irish Households Exposed To Lethal Radiation

... not be tolerated by workers in Sellafield nuclear plant and it is unacceptable that they may be exposed to such dangerous levels, she said. The house in Kerry was tested and found to have the third highest concentration of radon gas recorded to date in a home in Ireland and the dose received by the hous...

Lupin Gets DCGI Nod For Phase II Clinical Trials On Desoside-P

...aid. LL-4218, a pure molecule, is obtained from a plant source and is intended for the treatment of chronic stable plaque type psoriasis. This molecule's novel mechanism of action leads to marked psoriatic lesion improvement without any toxic effects. The company said it also has three other new chemical...

Q fever Cases Rise to 24 in Meat Factory

... more laboratory-confirmed cases from staff at the plant as results become available.' Health professionals in the Forth Valley area have been warned to look out for patients who may have contracted Q fever caused by the Coxiella burnetii organism and living in farm animals like cattle, sheep and goats a...

Q-fever Outbreak Among Meat Factory Workers

...eak control team to keep on top of it and that the plant is still operational and there is no danger to customers. The outbreak is being investigated by NHS Forth Valley together with Health Protection Scotland and Stirling Council's environmental health team. NHS Forth Valley said that blood tests had ...

Dietary Changes of Little Help to Cancer Patients

...ed meat and high amounts of fruits, vegetables and plant based foods. br>...

Menopausal Women Cautioned

... are to soon appear on all products containing the plant extract. Black cohosh, as the extract is known, is also sold as black snakeroot, rattlesnake root and squawroot, and has a market worth of ￡4.6 million a year. Black cohosh, sold as drops or capsules, costing between ￡5 and ￡10 for a month’s suppl...

Initiative to Offer Medical Treatment to the Poorest

...lation. Tata Steel has a 5 million tonne capacity plant in Jamshedpur which was expected to grow to a 10 mt plant. The company has signed a mou with the Jharkhand government to set up a 12 mt greenfield project in the Seraikela-Kharshawan district of Jharkhand. Source:PTI News...

Statin Drugs Doing More Harm than Good

...including foods like almonds, cereal fibers, tofu, plant sterols and soy products can lower total cholesterol more effectively than statin drugs....

Too Much Of Animal Protein May Lead To Cancer

...ut how animal proteins promote cancer growth while plant proteins do not. He also says in the book that the...trients are found to be promoters of cancers while plant proteins such as soy protein and wheat protein gluten do not have a promoting effect on cancer. He s...

Sanitizer For Contaminated Sprouts Developed

... is that it's phytocompatible -- it doesn't affect plant tissue; it affects only pathogens." he added. As a rich source of vitamins, minerals and phytochemicals, bean, alfalfa and other sprouts are popogated for their ability to reduce the risk of cancer and to fight cholesterol. But the method of prod...

Chornobyl Incident Proved Increased Risk of Thyroid Cancer from Radioactive Iodine

...n 1986, an accident at the Chornobyl nuclear power plant exposed large numbers of people in Belarus, Ukraine, and the Russian Federation to radioactive material high in isotopes of iodine and cesium. Numerous studies have shown that exposure to certain types of radiation increases the incidence of thyroid ...

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