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Natural Remedies Ineffective to Ease Menopausal Symptoms:study

...osh or other natural remedies are not effective to supplement HRT. The Annals of Internal Medicine published the study. A member of Buttercup family, Black Cohosh, is plant that grows in North America, from which various medicines are made by native Indians to treat illnesses, including female disorders. Blac...

Corporate Inc Awakening To Economic Impact Of HIV

...y) and condoms, the corporates are now striving to supplement efforts of various government programmes through company medical schemes. Among the most challenging tasks faced by the companies has been framing a HIV/AIDS work policy in consensus with the workforce at all levels including trade unions and manage...

Cancer Prevention Begins During Pregnancy

...cinogen but who also received the chemo protective supplement Indole-3-carbinol, or I3C, deaths from lymphoma we...ificantly reduced. "It's clear that in mice this supplement provided significant protection against lymphoma and, later on, lung cancer," Williams said. "It's a...

Pregnant Women- Eat Broccoli And Cabbage

...ce was also given a high dose of a chemoprotective supplement Indole-3-carbinol or I3C. 80 percent of offsprin...gnificantly lower. "It's clear that in mice this supplement provided significant protection against lymphoma and, later on, lung cancer," Williams said. Even ...

Chemical in Vegetables Keep Blood Vessels Healthy

...ant rotated between taking a daily dose of nitrate supplement equivalent to the amount normally found in 150 to 250 gm of a nitrate-rich vegetable -- such as spinach, lettuce, or beetroot -- for three days, and taking a placebo for a different three days. The results showed that average diastolic blood press...

American Senior Citizens Granted More Time

...lness. Like Social Security it is best viewed as a supplement to other health care coverage. UnitedHealth is the biggest provider of Medicare drug plans among others, with 5.75 million people enrolled as of Sept. 30. Herb Kuhn, acting deputy administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services s...

Mother’s Diet During Pregnancy Could Prevent Cancer in Childre

...rcinogen but who also received the chemoprotective supplement Indole-3-carbinol, or I3C, deaths from lymphoma we...ficantly reduced. "It's clear that in mice this supplement provided significant protection against lymphoma and, later on, lung cancer," Williams said. "It's a...

Chemical in Vegetables Keep Blood Vessels Healthy

...ant rotated between taking a daily dose of nitrate supplement equivalent to the amount normally found in 150 to 250 gm of a nitrate-rich vegetable -- such as spinach, lettuce, or beetroot -- for three days, and taking a placebo for a different three days. The results showed that average diastolic blood pressur...

Multivitamins Can Reduce Risk Of Low Birth Weight

...ernourished women who take a vitamin// and mineral supplement while pregnant may be less likely than women taking only iron and folic acid supplements to have babies weighing less than 2,500 grams, and their newborns may be less likely to have morbidity in the first seven days of life. Low birth weight, or a ...

Soap And Water - Still Better For Cleaning Hands

...e so-called anti-bacterial gels might be used as a supplement but not as a substitute for washing hands with plain soap and water. The studies shows that washing hands with soap and water for just 15 seconds removes 90% of bacteria. But many people do not wash their hands often enough or dry them thoroughly....

Garlic may Not Aid in Heart Disease and Cholesterol Levels

...ee sets and the first one was given 2 gm of garlic supplement everyday, the second one was given 40 mg of Lipitor and the third group was given the placebo pills. After three months it was observed that the Lipitor group had a significant drop in LDL cholesterol and a moderate drop of CRP and TNf-alpha level wh...

Can Prunes Reverse Bone Loss After Menopause?

...g this 12-month investigation, half the women will supplement their daily diets with nine to ten dried plums, totaling 100 grams. The other half will consume a comparable portion of dried apples, which also have known health benefits. For instance, several studies indicate that a daily helping of pectin-rich ap...

Starbucks Stops Using Dairy Products Containing RBGH

...ilk. Appropriate channels in the U.S. approved the supplement more than 10 years ago. It is believed that rBGH only works on cows, not on humans; however, controversies still exist about the effects of rBGH on humans. No statistical data has indicated that rBGH has adversely affected either humans or cows, b...

Selenium Supplements May Slow Progression of HIV: Report

... completed the trial, those receiving the selenium supplement had reductions in their HIV viral load and increases in their CD4 count compared with those taking placebo. Among those taking placebo, viral load continued to increase, and CD4 counts continued to decline, Hurwitz said. Improvements linked to sele...

Creatine Supplement May Help People With Muscular Dystrophies

Creatine, a popular nutritional supplement used by weightlifters and sprinters to improve ath... creatine in powders or pills for decades, but the supplement became more popular after the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, when sprinters, rowers and cyclists went publ...

A New Weapon Against Obesity

.... The subjects would be required to take a dietary supplement over a three-month period while making no other lifestyle changes. Participants' body composition will be tracked using cutting-edge technology to determine their body fat ratios. "What we have found so far in our animal studies has been very encou...

‘Baby Food’ to Battle Obesiy

...ealthy persons who will be asked to take a dietary supplement along with their diet over a three-month period. ANN...

Drink Red Wine to Stay Young

...eir age-related process. If humans took a daily supplement of melatonin from the age of 30 or 40 onwards then they too could delay the normal ageing process, the scientists suggest. The researchers, therefore, recommended that people wanting to fight the ravages of time boost their levels of melatonin thro...

Shedding New Light on Proteorhodopsin

... light, proteorhodopsin enables bacterial cells to supplement respiration as a cellular energy source. This ability to withstand oxygen deprivation probably explains why so many ocean bacteria express proteorhodopsin.” Liphardt said that the solar power option represents a potentially significant boost for ef...

Little Convincing Evidence That Omega-3 Combats Depression

...found only limited evidence to back their use as a supplement to antidepressants. The review found that fish oil supplements are generally well tolerated by people who take them. But there is evidence that they contain environmental toxins, which may be particularly concentrated in supplements made from fi...

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