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Vitamin B 2007-01-30 07:33:45 Vitamin B is a complex of eight water soluble vitamins active in cell metabolism. They include Thiamine (Vitamin B1), Riboflavin (Vitamin B2, also called Vitamin G), Niacin (Vitamin B3, also called Vitamin P), Pantothenic acid (Vitamin B5), Pyridoxine and Pyridoxamine (Vitamin B6), Biotin (Vitamin B7, also called Vitamin H), Folic acid (Vitamin B9, also called Vitamin M) and Cyanocobalamin (Vitamin B12).
Note: This review is not meant to be a comprehensive or definitive glossary, but rather to identify each vitamin’s function and highlight recent research findings of each of the B Vitamins.
Thiamine (Vitamin B1)
Thiamine helps with blood formation and the metabolism of carbohydrates, and plays a role in the conversion of blood sugar to energy. Additionally, it supports nerve tissues and nerve function. Thiamine is involved in the conversion of fatty acids and amino acids into hormones, proteins and enzymes. It is necessary for healthy muscle function, especially in the heart. Th Read more:Vitamin
Benefits of Bananas 2007-01-26 20:15:02 My daughter loves Bananas, as do I. We both eat one for breakfast everyday. On her blog Live Life … Organics & Your Health, Doris recently wrote about the benefits of Bananas and I thought I would take the opportunity to expand upon her post.
Bananas are high in fiber. A single banana contains 16% of the dietary fiber, 15% of the vitamin C, 11% of the potassium and 20% of the vitamin B6 recommended each day (1). There are two types of fiber, divided according to whether they are water-soluble or not. Soluble fiber is found in certain fruits, beans, peas, legumes and oats, and may help lower blood cholesterol and reduce the risk of heart disease and stroke (2-3). Insoluble fiber is found in whole wheat, wheat and corn bran, flax seed lignans (meaning class of phytoestrogen, which is an antioxidant) and vegetables such as carrots, celery, green beans and potato skins. Insoluble fiber provides the bulk needed for proper functioning of the stomach and intestines.
5 A DayEat a banan Read more:Benefits
The Glycemic Index 2007-01-24 16:33:18 The GlycemicIndex
(GI) is a system for rating carbohydrates, or saccharides, based on their immediate effect on the blood glucose level. An organic compound, glucose is a simple sugar or monosaccharide. Glucose is the principle sugar circulating in the blood; all cells use glucose as a source of energy and as a metabolic intermediate. Found in plants, glucose is the product of photosynthesis (the process of converting light energy to chemical energy and storing it in the bonds of a glucose molecule). Biologically active glucose is often referred to as dextrose. Glucose is often incorrectly referred to as table sugar - table sugar is a disaccharide composed of glucose and fructose.
The New Revolution Glucose Life PlanWhen food containing carbohydrate is consumed, glucose from the food is digested and transported throughout the body in the blood. The speed with which the food is able to increase the blood glucose level is referred to as the glycemic response. The Glycemic Index of a foo
Decrease in US Cancer Deaths 2007-01-22 06:20:51 In 2003, cancer deaths in the United States decreased by 369 deaths compared to 2002, the first drop seen since 1930. In 2004, the decrease in cancer deaths was eight times greater - 3,014 deaths - than in 2003, according to a report published in the latest issue of the American Cancer
Society (ACS) journal CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians.
Experts are attributing the decreases to declines in smoking, earlier detection and more effective treatment of tumors. The three most common cancers - breast, prostate and colorectal cancer - show a decrease in death rates, with the largest change from colorectal cancer. Experts attribute much of the credit for the reduction in colorectal cancer to screening exams and the early detection of polyps that can be removed before they become cancerous.
The cancers with the greatest decline in death rates from 1990 to 2003 for men were lung cancer (down 38.4%), prostate cancer (down 24.8%) and colorectal cancer (down 16.1%). The greatest decline in de
Amino Acids 2007-01-21 04:47:30 Amino acids are organic compounds containing an amino group (NH2), a carboxylic group (COOH) and any of various side chain groups. There are twenty amino acids encoded by the genetic code, referred to as the standard amino acids. The basic components of proteins, amino acids form short polymers (meaning a long molecule made up of a chain of smaller, simpler molecules) called peptides or longer polymers called polypeptides or proteins. Additionally, amino acids can function as chemical messengers and as intermediates in metabolism.
The standard amino acids are classified as polar (meaning that one end of the molecule is more positively charged while the other is more negatively charged) and include Arginine, Asparagine, Aspartate, Glutamate, Glutamine, Histidine, Lysine, Serine, Threonine and Tyrosine; or nonpolar and include Alanine, Cysteine, Glycine, Isoleucine, Leucine, Methionine, Phenyalanine, Proline, Tryptophan and Valine.
Some of the twenty standard amino acids are called essen
America's Health Rankings 2007-01-19 00:20:33 Paul over at Health
y Reader wrote about the results of the United Health Foundation’s 2006 edition of "America
’s Health Rankings
: A Call to Action for People and Their Communities". The report documents the lack of significant progress in improving health status, a trend they have been following since 2000. Nevertheless, the report concluded that America’s overall health improved slightly in 2006.
Minnesota leads the list of healthiest states, followed by Vermont, New Hampshire, Hawaii and Connecticut. Louisiana is at the bottom of the list and has consistently ranked 49th or 50th since 1990.
Four factors were used to determine the report findings: personal behaviors; the community environment that people live and work in; the quality, appropriateness and cost of care people receive at doctors’ offices, clinics and hospitals; and public and health program policies indicating the availability of resources and the extent of reach into the general population.
Vitamin A 2007-01-15 05:00:20 Vitamin A consists of a group of compounds that play an important role in vision, bone growth, reproduction, cell division and cell differentiation (1). It helps to regulate the immune system and may also help lymphocytes (meaning a type of white blood cell) better fight infection (2). In general, there are two forms of Vitamin A:
Vitamin A found in foods that come from animals is called preformed vitamin A and is absorbed in the form of retinol, the most biologically active form of vitamin A.
Vitamin A found in plants is called provitamin A carotenoid, which can be made into retinol in the body.
Vitamin A deficiency can lead to eye problems including dryness of the cornea and night blindness. Vitamin A plays an important role in maintaining the integrity of epithelial cells (the cell type that line hollow organs and glands and that make up the outer surface of the body). Consistent with this role, the incidence of diseases of the respiratory tract is increased during moderate vitam Read more:Vitamin
Vitamins 2007-01-10 15:44:04 Vitamins are essential biomolecules that act as both catalysts (meaning a substance that increases or decreases the rate of a chemical reaction) and substrates (meaning a molecule that is acted upon by an enzyme) in chemical reactions and are required in very small amounts for essential metabolic reactions in the body. With the exception of biotin and vitamins D and K, the body cannot manufacture vitamins - they must be obtained through food or nutritional supplementation. There are 13 known vitamins categorized as either fat-soluble (meaning absorbed through the intestinal tract with the help of lipids) and include vitamins A, D, E and K or water-soluble (meaning dissolves easily in water) and include eight B vitamins and vitamin C. The body stores fat-soluble vitamins for long periods of time while water-soluble vitamins (excluding vitamin B12) remain in the body for a short period of time and must be replenished more frequently.
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Amniotic Stem Cell Lines May Hold a Potential for Therapy 2007-01-09 06:01:50 Scientists at the Wake Forest University School of Medicine and Harvard School of Medicine report in the Journal of Nature Biotechnology that they have isolated stem cells from amniotic fluid. Further, by introducing growth factors, they were able to get the anmiotic fluid-derived stem (AFS) cells to differentiate (a concept from developmental biology describing the process by which cells acquire a “type”) into muscle, fat, bone, blood vessel, liver and nerve cells.
The AFS cells are pluripotent (meaning a stem cell that has the potential to differentiate into any of the three embryonic germ layers); the mesoderm, which develops into muscle, bone, blood and connective tissue; the endoderm, which develops into digestive organs and the lungs; and the ectoderm, which develops into nerves, skin and the nervous system.
AFS cells have a number of advantages over embryonic stem cells:
(1) No embryo needs to be harmed in the harvesting of AFS cells
(2) AFS cells will not form tum Read more:Lines
, Potential
, Therapy
Merck Focuses on Traditional Chinese Medicine for Cancer Drugs 2007-01-08 06:19:53 Merck recently announced that it will collaborate with Hong Kong-based Chi-Med, a pharmaceutical firm that focuses on researching, developing, manufacturing and selling pharmaceuticals, health supplements and other consumer health and personal care products derived from TraditionalChineseMedicine
and botanical ingredients, to develop new cancer drugs.
Traditional Chinese
MedicineChinese herbal medicines have been used for centuries. Merck's partnership with Chi-Med was likely made with the intention of identifying the active ingredients in those medicines.
Western pharmaceutical companies are increasingly outsourcing parts of drug discovery work due to the time and money - typically 7-10 years at a price of $800 million or more - required to find molecules to treat disease.
The question is, when Merck patents the active ingredients in Chinese herbs, will it affect low cost, natural health practices? Hopefully, the answer will be no, since it’s speculated that any molecules id Read more:Cancer
, Drugs
, Merck
Updated Rates of the Most Common Neurological Disorders 2007-02-01 06:43:15 An up-to-date review of the most common neurological disorders in the United States was published in the January 30th issue of Neurology. Researchers reviewed nearly 500 articles published between 1990 and 2005 to determine the rates of prevalence (meaning the total number of cases of a disease in a given population at a specific time; does not convey information about risk) or incidence (meaning the rate of occurrence of new cases of a particular disease in a given population; measures the risk of a disease) for 12 neurological disorders.
The study found that in the general population, nearly one out of every 1,000 people have multiple sclerosis, about 50% higher than a comprehensive review from 1982. It is not known whether the increased prevalence reflects improvements in diagnosis or an increase in incidence.
The study estimated that 121 out of every 1,000 people suffer from migraine and just over seven out of every 1,000 have epilepsy. The prevalence of Alzheimer’s disease Read more:Common
, Neurological
, Rates
Cancer Prevention 2007-02-05 17:15:29 Over 70% of all cancers are preventable through diet and lifestyle (1). Cancer
is the leading cause of death in the U.S. for people between the ages of 45 and 74, taking more than 550,000 lives a year. The Center for Disease Control (CDC) estimates that 20% of all cancer cases are related to obesity (2). Highlight HEALTH is taking this opportunity to provide information about choosing healthy lifestyle alternatives to reduce your risks for developing cancer.
Cancer Prevention Basics
Up to two-thirds of cancers may be prevented through healthy lifestyle changes. A healthy diet and regular exercise are two important prevention tools. Research has shown that eating more fruits and vegetables greatly lowers your risk of developing several cancers, including lung, mouth, esophagus, stomach and colon (3). According to the American Cancer Society (ACS), regular physical activity reduces the risk of breast, colon and possibly other cancers, and also reduces the risk of cardiovascular diseas
Sinus Congestion 2007-02-09 06:47:49 The sinuses are hollow spaces located inside the bones in the skull to either side of the nose, behind and in between the eyes, in the forehead and at the back of the nasal cavity. The sinuses are lined with a moist, thin layer of tissue called a mucous membrane, which not only humidifies the air as you breathe it in, but also produces mucus to trap irritants such as dust, pollen and bacteria. The sinuses are lined with microscopic hairs called cilia. The function of cilia is to move mucus to flush the sinuses and nasal passageways of trapped irritants.
Sinus
congestion is the blockage of one or more of the nasal passageways as a result of inflammation and swelling of the sinus tissues, secretion of mucus or a deviated septum (meaning obstruction of the nasal passage by the membranous ridge of cartilage in the nose that separates the nasal cavity into the two nostrils). Sinus congestion leads to impaired flow of mucus out of the sinuses. The build up of mucus in the sinuses causes inc Read more:Congestion
Dichloroacetate Not Ready for Therapeutic Use 2007-02-11 07:40:57 Dichloroacetate has been in the headlines recently, reported to be a cheap, effective cancer cure. The article, published in print and on the website NewScientist.com, ran with the headline “Cheap, safe drug kills most cancers”, implying incorrectly that it can kill tumors in humans.
Researchers at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada, recently reported that they found a cheap and easy drug to produce that is able to cause tumor regression in lung, breast and brain tumor cells grown in culture and lung tumors grown in immunocompromised rats. The drug, Dichloroacetate (DCA), targets mitochondria (meaning an organelle in the cell that produces energy) and induces apoptosis (meaning cell death), decreases proliferation and selectively inhibits cancer cell growth. It did not have any effects on normal, non-cancerous tissue. The findings were published in the January edition of the journal Cancer Cell.
Cancer cells don’t use mitochondria for energy, instead using Read more:Dichloroacetate
The Best Way to Stay Healthy and Avoid Getting Sick 2007-02-14 06:04:29 The best way to stay healthy and avoid getting sick is to wash your hands. Some of the most recent scientific evidence comes from a study of hospital-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection. Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA or “staph”) is a bacteria that can enter the body through breaks in the skin and cause severe infections and even death, especially in people who are already sick. MRSA represents a major control problem in hospitals as it has developed a resistance to all penicillins, including methicillin and other narrow-spectrum beta-lactamase-resistant penicillin antibiotics (1). Researchers concluded at the end of the study that hospitals could greatly limit the spread of MRSA through the use of increased barrier protection (gloves) by workers and more frequent hand washing (2).
Soap, antimicrobial soap and alcohol-based hand antiseptic
Essentially everything we call dirt is either oily or is stuck to us with oil. What makes Read more:Avoid
Peanut Butter Recalled Due to Salmonella Outbreak 2007-02-17 07:06:51 Nearly 300 people in 39 states have fallen ill since August 2006, linked to a Salmonella
outbreak from peanut butter. It is believed to be the first Salmonella outbreak in U.S. history associated with peanut butter. Just two or fewer cases have been reported each day since August, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) officials said, and it was only in the past few days that investigators were able to focus in on the particular food responsible. The highest number of Salmonella cases reported were in New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Tennessee and Missouri. According to the CDC, about 20 percent of the 288 infected people were hospitalized but no one has died.
ConAgra Foods is recalling certain jars of Peter Pan and Great Value peanut butter, the house brand sold at Wal-Mart, after it was linked on Wednesday to the nationwide Salmonella outbreak. Both products are manufactured by ConAgra Foods at a single plant in Sylvester, Georgia. The only jars affected have a product co Read more:Butter
, Peanut
, Peanut Butter
Highlight HEALTH Website Improvements 2007-02-20 05:24:06 I took a break this weekend from writing articles to work on the Highlight
HEALTH website. My host is upgrading to PHP 5.2 (meaning a server-side HTML embedded scripting language that WordPress is powered by) and they informed me that any version of WordPress under 2.1 will have problems after the upgrade. Highlight HEALTH
has been running on WordPress 2.0.6 since the beginning of the year and I’ve been putting off upgrading to 2.1 until I heard more about what types of problems, if any, to expect with the upgrade.
The process went rather smoothly, although I apologize if anyone was navigating the site over the weekend and experienced any problems. While I was at it, I installed some additional features to extend the interactivity of the website. I appreciate all the people that have made tools to extend the functionality of WordPress (called plugins in the WordPress world), but I especially have to thank Lester Chan as I’m using many of his updated plugins that work with
Highlight HEALTH Website Improvements 2007-02-20 05:24:06 I took a break this weekend from writing articles to work on the Highlight
HEALTH website. My host is upgrading to PHP 5.2 (meaning a server-side HTML embedded scripting language that WordPress is powered by) and they informed me that any version of WordPress under 2.1 will have problems after the upgrade. Highlight HEALTH
has been running on WordPress 2.0.6 since the beginning of the year and I’ve been putting off upgrading to 2.1 until I heard more about what types of problems, if any, to expect with the upgrade.
The process went rather smoothly, although I apologize if anyone was navigating the site over the weekend and experienced any problems. While I was at it, I installed some additional features to extend the interactivity of the website. I appreciate all the people that have made tools to extend the functionality of WordPress (called plugins in the WordPress world), but I especially have to thank Lester Chan as I’m using many of his updated plugins that work with
Peanut Butter Recalled Due to Salmonella Outbreak 2007-02-17 07:06:51 Nearly 300 people in 39 states have fallen ill since August 2006, linked to a Salmonella
outbreak from peanut butter. It is believed to be the first Salmonella outbreak in U.S. history associated with peanut butter. Just two or fewer cases have been reported each day since August, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) officials said, and it was only in the past few days that investigators were able to focus in on the particular food responsible. The highest number of Salmonella cases reported were in New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Tennessee and Missouri. According to the CDC, about 20 percent of the 288 infected people were hospitalized but no one has died.
ConAgra Foods is recalling certain jars of Peter Pan and Great Value peanut butter, the house brand sold at Wal-Mart, after it was linked on Wednesday to the nationwide Salmonella outbreak. Both products are manufactured by ConAgra Foods at a single plant in Sylvester, Georgia. The only jars affected have a product co Read more:Butter
, Peanut
, Peanut Butter
The Best Way to Stay Healthy and Avoid Getting Sick 2007-02-14 06:04:29 The best way to stay healthy and avoid getting sick is to wash your hands. Some of the most recent scientific evidence comes from a study of hospital-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection. Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA or “staph”) is a bacteria that can enter the body through breaks in the skin and cause severe infections and even death, especially in people who are already sick. MRSA represents a major control problem in hospitals as it has developed a resistance to all penicillins, including methicillin and other narrow-spectrum beta-lactamase-resistant penicillin antibiotics (1). Researchers concluded at the end of the study that hospitals could greatly limit the spread of MRSA through the use of increased barrier protection (gloves) by workers and more frequent hand washing (2).
Soap, antimicrobial soap and alcohol-based hand antiseptic
Essentially everything we call dirt is either oily or is stuck to us with oil. What makes Read more:Avoid
Dichloroacetate Not Ready for Therapeutic Use 2007-02-11 07:40:57 Dichloroacetate has been in the headlines recently, reported to be a cheap, effective cancer cure. The article, published in print and on the website NewScientist.com, ran with the headline “Cheap, safe drug kills most cancers”, implying incorrectly that it can kill tumors in humans.
Researchers at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada, recently reported that they found a cheap and easy drug to produce that is able to cause tumor regression in lung, breast and brain tumor cells grown in culture and lung tumors grown in immunocompromised rats. The drug, Dichloroacetate (DCA), targets mitochondria (meaning an organelle in the cell that produces energy) and induces apoptosis (meaning cell death), decreases proliferation and selectively inhibits cancer cell growth. It did not have any effects on normal, non-cancerous tissue. The findings were published in the January edition of the journal Cancer Cell.
Cancer cells don’t use mitochondria for energy, instead using Read more:Dichloroacetate
Sinus Congestion 2007-02-09 06:47:49 The sinuses are hollow spaces located inside the bones in the skull to either side of the nose, behind and in between the eyes, in the forehead and at the back of the nasal cavity. The sinuses are lined with a moist, thin layer of tissue called a mucous membrane, which not only humidifies the air as you breathe it in, but also produces mucus to trap irritants such as dust, pollen and bacteria. The sinuses are lined with microscopic hairs called cilia. The function of cilia is to move mucus to flush the sinuses and nasal passageways of trapped irritants.
Sinus
congestion is the blockage of one or more of the nasal passageways as a result of inflammation and swelling of the sinus tissues, secretion of mucus or a deviated septum (meaning obstruction of the nasal passage by the membranous ridge of cartilage in the nose that separates the nasal cavity into the two nostrils). Sinus congestion leads to impaired flow of mucus out of the sinuses. The build up of mucus in the sinuses causes inc Read more:Congestion
Cancer Prevention 2007-02-05 17:15:29 Over 70% of all cancers are preventable through diet and lifestyle (1). Cancer
is the leading cause of death in the U.S. for people between the ages of 45 and 74, taking more than 550,000 lives a year. The Center for Disease Control (CDC) estimates that 20% of all cancer cases are related to obesity (2). Highlight HEALTH is taking this opportunity to provide information about choosing healthy lifestyle alternatives to reduce your risks for developing cancer.
Cancer Prevention Basics
Up to two-thirds of cancers may be prevented through healthy lifestyle changes. A healthy diet and regular exercise are two important prevention tools. Research has shown that eating more fruits and vegetables greatly lowers your risk of developing several cancers, including lung, mouth, esophagus, stomach and colon (3). According to the American Cancer Society (ACS), regular physical activity reduces the risk of breast, colon and possibly other cancers, and also reduces the risk of cardiovascular diseas
Updated Rates of the Most Common Neurological Disorders 2007-02-01 06:43:15 An up-to-date review of the most common neurological disorders in the United States was published in the January 30th issue of Neurology. Researchers reviewed nearly 500 articles published between 1990 and 2005 to determine the rates of prevalence (meaning the total number of cases of a disease in a given population at a specific time; does not convey information about risk) or incidence (meaning the rate of occurrence of new cases of a particular disease in a given population; measures the risk of a disease) for 12 neurological disorders.
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, Neurological
, Rates
Vitamin B 2007-01-30 07:33:45 Vitamin B is a complex of eight water soluble vitamins active in cell metabolism. They include Thiamine (Vitamin B1), Riboflavin (Vitamin B2, also called Vitamin G), Niacin (Vitamin B3, also called Vitamin P), Pantothenic acid (Vitamin B5), Pyridoxine and Pyridoxamine (Vitamin B6), Biotin (Vitamin B7, also called Vitamin H), Folic acid (Vitamin B9, also called Vitamin M) and Cyanocobalamin (Vitamin B12).
Note: This review is not meant to be a comprehensive or definitive glossary, but rather to identify each vitamin’s function and highlight recent research findings of each of the B Vitamins.
(more…)
Read more:Vitamin
Benefits of Bananas 2007-01-26 20:15:02 My daughter loves Bananas, as do I. We both eat one for breakfast everyday. On her blog Live Life … Organics & Your Health, Doris recently wrote about the benefits of Bananas and I thought I would take the opportunity to expand upon her post.
Bananas are high in fiber. A single banana contains 16% of the dietary fiber, 15% of the vitamin C, 11% of the potassium and 20% of the vitamin B6 recommended each day (1). There are two types of fiber, divided according to whether they are water-soluble or not. Soluble fiber is found in certain fruits, beans, peas, legumes and oats, and may help lower blood cholesterol and reduce the risk of heart disease and stroke (2-3). Insoluble fiber is found in whole wheat, wheat and corn bran, flax seed lignans (meaning class of phytoestrogen, which is an antioxidant) and vegetables such as carrots, celery, green beans and potato skins. Insoluble fiber provides the bulk needed for proper functioning of the stomach and intestines.
5 A DayEat a banan Read more:Benefits
The Glycemic Index 2007-01-24 16:33:18 The GlycemicIndex
(GI) is a system for rating carbohydrates, or saccharides, based on their immediate effect on the blood glucose level. An organic compound, glucose is a simple sugar or monosaccharide. Glucose is the principle sugar circulating in the blood; all cells use glucose as a source of energy and as a metabolic intermediate. Found in plants, glucose is the product of photosynthesis (the process of converting light energy to chemical energy and storing it in the bonds of a glucose molecule). Biologically active glucose is often referred to as dextrose. Glucose is often incorrectly referred to as table sugar - table sugar is a disaccharide composed of glucose and fructose.
The New Revolution Glucose Life PlanWhen food containing carbohydrate is consumed, glucose from the food is digested and transported throughout the body in the blood. The speed with which the food is able to increase the blood glucose level is referred to as the glycemic response. The Glycemic Index of a foo
Vitamin C 2007-02-25 08:08:11 Vitamin C is a water-soluble vitamin that is used in many tissues throughout the body. The adrenal gland contains the highest concentration of Vitamin C, and the vitamin plays a crucial role in both the adrenal cortex and adrenal medulla (1). Humans are one of the few species that cannot manufacture the vitamin in the body and must depend on diet or nutritional supplementation as a source of Vitamin C. The best sources of Vitamin C are fresh fruit (especially in the citrus family, including oranges, lemons, limes and tangerines), strawberries, cantaloupe and currants. Green leafy vegetables, including Brussel sprouts, collard greens, lettuce, cabbage, peas and asparagus, are also good sources.
During the early days of sea exploration, European sailors were often afflicted with scurvy. Private firms would supply a ship’s crew with food for long voyages. These firms charged a flat rate, so the cheaper the food supplied, the more money a firm would make. Common sailors were given sa Read more:Vitamin
Study Questions Ability of Garlic to Lower LDL Cholesterol 2007-03-03 05:56:39 A study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine this week concluded that garlic supplementation does not improve cholesterol profiles in people with moderately high levels of LDL cholesterol (defined here as a fasting plasma LDL cholesterol concentration of 130 to 190 mg/dL, a triglyceride level less than 250 mg/dL and body mass index, calculated as weight in kilograms divided by height in meters squared, of 19 to 30). The study is the first independent, long-term assessment of raw garlic and two popular garlic supplements. Raw garlic (4g/day for 6 months), powdered garlic and aged garlic extract supplement were tested on 192 adults with moderately high levels of LDL cholesterol. None of the garlic forms studied had statistically or clinically significant effects on LDL cholesterol or other plasmid lipid concentrations. The results contradict other recent findings suggesting that garlic may be beneficial in heart health by reducing moderately high levels of LDL cholesterol in a Read more:Cholesterol
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