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High Protein Sans Low Carb Diets Not Advisable For Pregnant Women

... 1967-8 to mothers who were told to eat a pound of red meat a day to avoid pregnancy complications. The study found the more meat the mother ate, the higher were the levels of stress hormone cortisol in the child, the online edition of BBC News reported. Cortisol is a body hormone that is involved ...

Gold Nanoparticles Are Good Detectors Biological Toxins

...e solutions of the gold nanoparticles are a strong red colour but they instantly change to blue when the target substance is present. He said they are working with solutions of particles tailored for just one toxin as well as mixtures of nanoparticles. The scientists say that the colour changes were less...

Chocolate to Treat Heart Disease

...d in many fruits and vegetables as well as tea and red wines. Dr. Corder himself acknowledges that not all dark chocolates are equally good. He opines that at least a year would be required before it becomes clear which dark chocolates could be used for his study. Intrigued about the effect of flavan...

The Multi-Faceted Chemical Benzene

...amages the bone marrow and can cause a decrease in red blood cells, leading to anemia. It can also cause excessive bleeding and depress the immune system, increasing the chance of infection. Some women who breathed high levels of benzene for many months had irregular menstrual periods and a decrease in t...

Now A Cancer-Fighting Tomato

... tomatoes. // Lycopene is the chemical that gives red color to the tomatoes and is rich in anti-oxidants. It is supposed to fight prostate cancer, breast cancer and colorectal cancer. A previous study had found that eating 10 servings of tomatoes per week decreased the risk of developing prostate cancer...

Delay Umbilical Cord Clamping in Pre Term Babies

... receives at birth. This blood gives the baby more red blood cells to carry oxygen and has high concentrations of beneficial stem cells." The three-year study, conducted at Women and Infants Hospital in Providence, was funded by a $392,000 National Institute of Nursing Research grant, a division of th...

Technology at its nano best: hand-held lab-on-a-chip for blood tests

... separate and identify components of blood such as red and white blood cells, lipids, proteins or oxygen....his case, white blood cells will be separated from red blood cells. Because of fluid dynamics, larger molecules like white blood cells will bypass a chambe...

Fruits & Vegetables Makes You Look Younger With Fewer Wrinkles

...kin look younger by including lots of tomatoes and red paprika in their meals, German magazine The Dermatologist said in its latest issue. Free radicals - unstable oxygen molecules - are a major factor in premature skin aging and skin cancer. Antioxidants contained in the body stop free-radical damage....

A Unique Technique To Visualize How The heart functions Developed

...r exhibited excitation at wavelengths far into the red region of the spectrum, significantly longer than the other dyes. And this dye can image the electrical activity of cells deeper inside the heart, he stated.The researchers are trying to understand the mechanisms which influences the long QT interval...

Bedwetting Could Be Curbed By A Simple Change In Diet

...he labels of foods and drinks and, if they contain red dye, keep them away from their children. --Edited IAN...

Malaria Resistant Mosquitoes Could Help In Combating Malaria

... and sweating caused by the parasitic infection of red blood cells by a protozoan that is transmitted by the bite of an infected female mosquito. It affects approximately 300 million people worldwide and kills between one and 1.5 million people every year. Previously extremely widespread, malaria is...

Long Term Mediation Not Advisable To Treat Hot Flashes

...d studies of nonprescription extracts from soy and red clover, which contain plant estrogens called isoflavones and are marketed as a natural treatment for hot flashes. But none of these drugs or extracts is approved by the food and drug administration to treat hot flashes. Among the antidepressants, Pax...

Non Hormonal Therapies for Menopause Not Proved to be Effective

...nidine). The trials do not support the efficacy of red clover isoflavone extracts and present mixed results for soy isoflavone extracts. Evidence for other therapies is limited due to the small number of trials and their deficiencies. Few trials compare different therapies head-to-head and relative effic...

Oven roasted Vegetables Can Cause Dental Erosion

...come more acidic when roasted in the oven//, while red capsicum becomes heavily acidic when stewed. But the study says that the acidity of onions or tomatoes does not change with the cooking method. Publishing his findings in the current issue of the European Journal of Prosthodontics and Restorative D...

Lifting The Screen off Misleading Sunscreen labels

... coherent information without creating unnecessary red tape for industry." ...

Beer to Ward off Osteoporosis

... widely acclaimed for its antioxidant property, as red wine and 4-5 times as many polyphenols as white wine. Alcohol has also been shown to increase the amount of HDL cholesterol into the bloodstream in addition to decreasing blood clots. Vitamin B6 that prevents the build-up of homocysteine, linked to...

Reaping the Benefits of Tomato

...cardiovascular disease// . Lycopene, is a bright red carotenoid pigment, a phytochemical found in tomatoes and other red fruits. Lycopene is the most common carotenoid in the human body and is one of the most potent carot...

Red Wine May Reduce The Risk Of Age Related Deafness

... loud noise, may be reduced by the antioxidants in red wine, green tea and aspirin. // Explaining that moderate amounts of red wine or aspirin could help slow the development of age-related deafness, the researchers suggested t...

Anemia from Malaria Linked to a Protein MIF

...inflammation called MIF, which appears to suppress red blood cell production in people whose red blood cells already are infected by malaria parasites. The parasite that causes malaria - known as...

Good News for Coffee Drinkers

... caffeine as well as polyphenols that are found in red wine which has long been linked to a reduction in ...e risk in people who drank one to three glasses of red wine daily. Data of 27,000 older women, followed for 15 years, has been used for this study. Its r...

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