A scientific journal has finally published a comprehensive list of foods to eat for a long and healthy life. We’re talking about the Journal of the American College of Cardiology that presented in its November issue the Ideal Dietary Patterns and Foods to Prevent Cardiovascular Disease: Beware of Their Anti-Inflammatory Potential. The paper is largely a […]
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A trio of researchers from the Univerity of Oxford, UK, published a metastudy indicating that honey should be the treatment of choice for mild respiratory upper tract infections instead of other usual care treatments, including antibiotics. The aim of the metastudy was to find ways of curbing antibiotic resistance determined by over-prescription in upper respiratory
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This might be the oversimplified conclusion of a new brain imaging study recently published in the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease. Of course, the objective of the study was precisely “to identify patterns of cerebral perfusion abnormality in adults as a function of body mass index (BMI) defined weight categories, including overweight or obese status.” The
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…if you have an electric cooker in your kitchen. By electric cooker, we mean even an Instant Pot or a rice cooker able to sustain a dry heating cycle of at least 50 minutes at 212 F (100ºC). The best news is that you can perform this kind of decontamination for at least 20 times.
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No, really. Honeysuckle decocotion. Clears SARS-CoV-2 from your body in 4 days! A recent Chinese study proves that honeysuckle decoction might be a practicable and reliable therapeutic strategy to treat SARS-CoV-2 infection. This is not an in-vitro study, nor one performed on worms, mice, apes, or other lab animals. The researchers from Nanjing University and
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Researchers with the Centre for Nutrition, Exercise, and Metabolism at the University of Bath compared the body effects of eating until you are comfortably full to eating until you cannot manage another bite. The good news is that the trial volunteers, who consumed almost twice as much pizza when pushing beyond their usual limits, doubling
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Curcumin, a natural compound found in the spice turmeric, could help eliminate certain viruses, including a certain type of coronavirus, research has found. A study published in the Journal of General Virology showed that curcumin can prevent Transmissible gastroenteritis virus (TGEV) – an alpha-group coronavirus that infects pigs – from infecting cells. At higher doses,
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Sure you know breakfast is the most important meal of the day. Today, you’ll find out why it’s also important to be the sweetest. Is eating chocolate cake for breakfast good for the waistline? A scientific study conducted by the University of Tel Aviv tested a hypothesis: eating chocolate cake for breakfast results in losing
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Banned in France, enjoyed in the US E171 is a common food additive employed to make things whiter. It consists basically of titanium dioxide particles in various shapes and sizes. At least one-third of these sizes are at the nanoscale, which refers to dimensions smaller than 10-9m. That’s the millionth part of a meter. And
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A recent study has found out that the severity of COVID-19 caused by the high-spreading SARS-COV-2 virus may be influenced by certain diseases that are associated with changes in the composition of the gut microbiome: diabetes, high blood pressure and obesity, both in older people and younger individuals, as well. What is the gut microbiome
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When it comes to detox diets, people are just as divided as possible: some believe they work and they cleanse your organism of “toxins”, others find no use of them since the organism can very well clean itself through normal physiological processes. The need for clinical trials is therefore obvious, but the stakes are too
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A study by researchers from the Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV) and Harvard Medical School has found that consuming fish rich in Omega 3, but also supplements containing these fatty acids, can modulate the particles that transport lipids through the blood, and can reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease. Until this study, the common knowledge
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