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Coffee as sunscreen 2007-11-01 12:47:49
A study done at Rutgers University in New Jersey, USA, shows that caffeine in combination with exercise gives protection agains UVB. This is the radiation in sun light that can cause skin cancer. The Americans gave hairless mice (which are very sensitive to skin cancer) water with caffeine, or a wheel to run in or both or neither. All mice had UVB light shone on them from a lamp. The mice that had the water with caffeine and the wheel had the least incidents of skin cancer. Only caffeine or only exercise worked as well, but not as well as the two together. The scientists haven’t found an explanation for this yet. Also they emphasize that it still has to be researched if it works the same in humans.
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Bread crusts are healthier than the bread 2007-11-01 11:45:28 Even though bread and its crust are made of the same stuff, flower, water, yeast and salt, the crust turns out to be healthier than the bread. German researchers found out that bread crusts contain the antioxidant pronyl-lysine. This antioxidant helps the body make so-called phase II enzymes. These enzymes play a very important role in the detoxification of the body. The antioxidant also plays a role in preventing cancer. So eat your bread with the crust.
Healthy lifestyle can prevent cancer 2007-10-31 07:05:09 In Amsterdam, the Netherlands, the results of a big worldwide research into the connection between lifestyle
and cancer have been presented. Scientists have reviewed thousands of studies about prevent
ion and causes of cancer. In the presented report are advises to reduce the risk of cancer. Vegetables, fruits, exercise and low alcohol consumption are recommended. Consuming large amounts of sausage, ham and meatloaf are recommended against.
According to a Dutch scientist who worked on the rapport, the conclusions are not a surprise, but were never so well argumented.
Vitamins can prevent hearing damage 2007-10-25 10:15:59 Scientist who fed guinea pigs with magnesium and vitamins A, C and E noticed that the animals were insensitive to hearing damage. The guinea pigs who did not get the supplements suffered a great loss in hearing. In the research, published in Free Radical Biology and Medicine, it is said these nutrients help reduce the amount of free radicals in the ear. Free radicals are an important cause of hearing loss. Test on humans are being prepared
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Hemp is healthy if you eat it 2007-10-25 09:48:15 You shouldn’t smoke them cause they will give you a headache and worse, they are 5 times as dangerous as cigarettes for your lungs. But if you eat hemp seeds they are quite healthy
. The seeds contain more protein than meat or fish, six grams per spoon! They are also full of alpha linolenic acid (ALA), which is good for the heart and the blood vessels. You can eat them straight out of the bag or mix them with salads or cereal.
Less salt, less chance of heart disease 2007-10-25 09:34:48 Researchers from Harvard University have discovered that by eating less salt you can prevent heart disease
s. In the research conducted with 3000 individuals, they asked half the people to restrict their salt intake to one half teaspoon, about 1,15 grams of sodium. Fifteen years later there is 30% less heart disease
among this group. High sodium intake can harden arteries, says the research leader. So don’t eat too much salt is the advice. Avoid canned foods or ready made meals, those are generally high in salt.
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Avoid diesel fumes 2007-10-25 09:23:49 More news on the fumes front. Particles in the exhaust fumes of diesel
engines react with fatty acids in the bad LDL cholesterol in the blood. They activate the genes that cause inflammation processes in the blood. Because of this, lumps can start to form in the blood vessels which can cause problems like heart attacks and strokes.
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The dangers of watching television 2007-10-25 09:13:07 Although watching television is not dangerous for your eyes, it is dangerous for the rest of your body. This is the result of an American study. The number one reason is that you eat 71% more when you watch tv. And of course you watch tv sitting down and not being physically active. Also prolonged exposure to a too bright light decreases the amount of melatonin, a sleep regulating hormone. You also increase the risk for a lot more of physical symptoms:
Hours of tv per week:
Physical symptom:
Increased risk:
12+
metabolic syndrome
48%
14+
type 2 diabetes
140%
17+
obesity
97%
20+
erectile dysfunction
30%
21+
insomnia
105%
Printer fumes as dangerous as tobacco smoke 2007-10-25 08:37:37 The tiny toner particles that most laser printers put into the air are as dangerous
for your lungs as tobacco smoke. This is a result of an investigation done by a Australian University. 17 out of the 62 investigated printers put dangerous amounts of fine particles into the air. Possible consequences of exposure to these particles are respiratory problems, asthma, heart problems and cancer. Ventilate your printer space well!
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Fatty foods do not make you fat 2007-10-24 13:51:21 More and more doctors and scientists adhere to the opinion that eating fatty foods doesn’t make you fat even though a lot of dieticians still cling to the opposite. ‘It’s the misunderstanding of the century’, wrote renowned science journalist Gary Taubes not long ago in the New York Times. Research shows for two centuries already that we get fat from consuming too much energy. Someone who eats a lot of fat and protein feels satiated sooner and longer and consumes significantly less energy than someone who eats a lot of carbohydrates.
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Fresh brew coffee machines bad for cholesterol levels 2007-12-05 10:55:31
In coffee there is a substance called cafestol that naturally occurres in coffee beans. Is has been known for quite some time that cafestol increases cholesterol levels
and thus increases the risk of a heart attack. At home people mostly drink filter coffee. Filtered coffee contains a lot less cafestol than coffee from fresh brew machines
, which are often found in the workplace. These machines grind the coffee on demand and the coffee is often only coarsely filtered.
The dutch consumer organization tested 12 fresh brew coffee machines. Some machines, like the Autobar Valencia and the Bremer Via, produced cups of coffee with 1.9 mg of cafestol. Drinking five cups of coffee from these machines is equal to eating 5 slices of bread with full fat butter in terms of danger for your cholesterol levels. Other fresh brew machines, like the Vicenza, produced coffee with only 0,2 mg of cafestol, which is significantly lower.
If you drink 5 cups of coffee daily from the ‘bad’ machin
Oregano oil against salmonella 2007-11-29 10:05:50
A study done at the University of Utrecht, the Netherlands shows that oregano oil is a very effective inhibitor of bacteria. Bacteria like salmonella and E.coli are killed by adding the oil to chicken fillets for example.
Researcher Sara Burt discovered the active component carvacrol which has a detrimental effect on such bacteria which can cause severe food poisoning. Carvacrol can be added to other articles of food in the form of vapor.
Carvacrol vapor reduces the amount of salmonella bacteria on a chicken fillet drastically at 4C, is one of the conclusions of the research.
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Three easy tips to eat less 2007-12-13 08:35:40 Not only the food on your plate, but also the surroundings decide how much you will eat. Here are three easy tips for eating a bit less:
Turn off the tv while eating. When you are distracted while eating, by the tv for examaple, your brain has more trouble recognizing the signals of your body that indicate that you have eaten enough.
Eat sitting down. The preparations you make for eating while seated, like setting the table and putting all the food on it, give you the impression that you are eating more than you really are. The result is that you will eat less in your next meal. Canadian researchers estimate that you will eat up to one third less.
Have a notepad within reach to write down what you eat within a day. Only describe the sizes of the portions and not the ingredients. It works as a reminder at the end of the day to determine how much you have eaten that day.
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Mushrooms enhance the immune system 2007-12-13 08:20:56 Fortify your immune system with mushrooms, they can protect you against diseases. This is the result of a research done at Tuft University in Massachusetts. Mice whose diet included champignon mushrooms had more active ‘natural killer cells’, white bloodcells which fight viruses and cancer cells. According to the author of this research report 150 grams of mushrooms per day can possibly give us these beneficial effects.
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Fish against cancer 2007-12-13 08:04:21 When you eat fish one time per week, you have 4% less risk of colon cancer. And every time more you eat fish per week, your risk goes down with another 4%. This is the result of a meta study done by the University of Wageningen in Holland. How exactly the fish protects you is not yet known, but the scientists speculate that it is possibly due to the omega 3 fatty acids or other protective nutrients like selenium, vitamin D and proteins. Also a reason could be that people who eat fish, eat less red meat in general. Red meat increases the risk of colon cancer.
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Wash your apple instead of peeling it 2007-12-12 09:26:06 It’s is better to wash an apple before you eat it than to peel it, because the peel contains triterpenoids. Triterpenoids are antioxidants which have shown in laboratory tests that they slow the growth of different kinds of cancer cells. Science does not know the full potential of this substance yet, but it could be that triterpenoids are mainly responsible for the cancer fighting properties of fruit.
Cut your cancer risk in half 2007-12-12 09:00:36
Here is an eye opener for you: at least half of all instances of cancer are caused by a unhealthy lifestyle. This is the conclusion of a study done by the Dutch Cancer Foundation. The biggest risk factors are:
smoking
alcohol
excess weight
bad nutrition
too much sun
too little exercise
And not, like many people assume, the environment or hereditary factors.
Average toilet seat cleaner than telephone 2007-12-12 08:44:35 On a desk there are 400 times more microbes (bacteria, viruses, fungi and parasites) than on a toilet seat according to a study done by the University of Arizona. An average telephone
is the dirtiest followed by the keyboard and then the mouse. When you have a cold, it all gets worse. Some viruses can survive for up to three days on your desk. So clean your desk as often as your toilet.
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How to drink a soft drink 2007-12-06 08:16:59 Tell me how you drink a soft drink and I will tell you where you will get cavities in your teeth. This is the message of Mohammed Bassiouny, professor at Temple University in Philadelphia, USA. In an article in General Dentistry he describes the mouths of two teenagers. The first is a 18 year old boy who drinks 2 liters of soda per day. He drinks it directly from the can or a bottle. The consequences are clearly visible. His teeth are crumbling, they have brown and black stains and he has bad breath. To hide all this he presses his lips together when he doesn’t have to speak.
The second mouth Bassiouny reports about is that of 16 year old girl. The last years she had drunk almost a liter and a half of soft drinks per day through a drinking straw the ends directly after her lips, so still before her teeth. Her teeth are also badly damaged, but in a different place. The boy has mainly damaged his molars with the acid and sugar from the sodas, but the girl has damaged mainly her fr
Alcohol causes hearing loss 2008-02-29 04:46:48 It has been shown that alcohol temporarily effects hearing ability, so don’t have any important conversations over a drink. Recently British researchers discovered that when your alcohol level rises till 0,08 per mill, your hearing threshold is lowered by 15 decibels on average. This is equal to the effect of wearing ear plugs. And according [...] Read more:Alcohol
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, hearing loss
Physical labor reduces chance of prostate cancer 2008-02-28 04:25:21 The risk of prostate cancer is reduced by doing heavy physical labor
the whole day. Moving a lot seems to reduce the chance
of various kinds of cancer.
Men who perform heavy physical labor all day have 45 percent less chance of prostate cancer. Men who only do heavy physical labor every now and then do [...]
Americans stop eating too late 2008-02-27 04:21:22 Americans in general keep eating
even though they are full. French people don’t seem to have that issue though.
French students always have enough room for dessert if they know beforehand that there will be one. American students often don’t have room. This is because they don’t stop eating when they have had enough. They keep [...] Read more:Americans
Polluted air reduces IQ in children 2008-02-26 04:56:37 Children from neighborhoods where there is a lot of air pollution, have lower test results in IQ tests than children from neighborhoods where the air is clean. The effect of polluted air is comparable to that of a mother smoking 10 cigarettes daily during her pregnancy.
That breathing in polluted air is bad for your health [...]
Smoking father ruins sperm of son too 2008-02-25 04:30:50 Smoking and drinking men pass on their damaged sperm to their potential sons. The sperm defects can be passed down as much as four generations.
The damaged sperm cells can endanger the health of the future child. Furthermore for boys there is a big chance that they will have the exact same broken sperm cells as [...] Read more:Smoking
Tea makes blood vessels cleaner in women 2008-02-24 04:13:54 Women who drink a lot of tea, have less chance of getting clogged blood vessels
. This in turn reduces the risk of cardiovascular disease.
A large scale French study has shown that three cups of tea daily keeps the blood vessels clean. Only in women though, men did not show the beneficial effect. The researchers have [...] Read more:cleaner
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Less salt keeps children slimmer 2008-02-23 04:44:33 Children who consume less salt, drink less soft drinks. This lowers their risk for getting high blood pressure and obesity.
When children between the ages of 4 and 18 would half their salt intake, they would drink two glasses of soda less per week. This equals 250 calories that they would consume less, say British researchers. [...] Read more:keeps
Low zinc levels increase chance of heart attack in diabetics 2008-02-22 04:32:26 In a study conducted under 1050 people with type 2 diabetes their zinc levels
were measured. After 7 years 156 people of this group had died from coronary heart disease and 254 people had had a heart attack
(which had fatal consequences in some instances).
Those who had a low level of zinc had a [...] Read more:chance
, heart attack
Folic acid decreases risk of Alzheimer 2008-02-21 04:23:25 American researchers followed 965 people which were older than 65 for a period of 6 years. The study looked at the intake of folic acid (vitamin B9), vitamin B6 and vitamin B12 and the influence of that on the chance to get Alzheimer
disease. In the end the disease was diagnosed in 192 people [...] Read more:decreases
Omega 3 oils possibly good for the bones 2008-02-20 04:42:04 In a research published by the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition the bone density and the level of omega 3 fatty acids were measured in 78 young men between the age of 16 and 22.
There proved to be a strong correlation between the level of these fatty acids, especially DHA, and bone density. Animal [...] Read more:Omega
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