Banish colds

Apr 9, 2012 Posted Under: Healthy Food Reviews  

As summer winds down, its time to think about boosting your immune system and practicing simple remedies that will keep colds at bay. Start by gargling away colds. Gargling with water Gargling with water can reduce your risk of catching colds this winter. Individuals who practiced this simple and free remedy at least three times a day cut their upper respiratory tract infections by 40 percent over people who didnt, according to a study. Gargling works to help you get over colds faster too. Switch to warm salt water as salt is a natural antiseptic that will help wash away bacteria. Sunflower seeds and Vitamin E Like snacking on sunflower seeds? Dont feel guilty about it. Read more…

The 5 Most Pointless Supermarket Foods

Apr 7, 2012 Posted Under: Healthy Food Advices  

A few years back, some of the foremost thinkers of our time gathered at the top of a remote mountain to address a question that has plagued man for centuries: How can we get our hands into the chip bag without taking our arms out from beneath the blanket? The Snuggie was born.

Okay, so I don’t actually know what string of events prompted the Snuggie, but the blanket-dress hybrid turned pop-culture phenomenon makes an important point: Marketers can sell us anything, and sometimes it seems like they invent junk just to see if we’ll buy it. In most cases, we do.

Right now there’s no bigger purveyor of pointlessness than the food industry. O

Read more…

New Life-Saving Blood Test Detects Recurring Breast Cancer a Year Earlier than Usual

Apr 5, 2012 Posted Under: Healthy Food News  

At the 243rd National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society, researcher Daniel Rafferty, Ph.D. reports that he and his company have developed a new blood test that is more sensitive and can detect recurring breast cancer up to one year earlier than the usual tests allow.

Approximately 1 in every 5 breast cancer survivors will have a recurring breast cancer within 10 years of treatment. To monitor the chance of a recurring breast cancer, doctors and their patients have to rely on a biomarker called “CA 27.29” to alert them. However, one problem with this biomarker is that it typically detects the recurring cancer relatively late—after symptoms of the cancer have already appeared.

<

Read more…

10 Proven Fitness Resolutions for 2012

Apr 3, 2012 Posted Under: Healthy Food Advices  

Here we go ready to storm into 2012 with great fitness resolutions. Feel more energetic

In my 16-plus years of personal training experience, nothing sets a person up for failure as much as an open-ended, generic fitness resolution.

Resolving to lose weight is sort of like asking you what your career aspirations are and you answering, to become famous or to do well on my job. There isnt an action plan or any real goal you can sink your teeth into.

Im not a big fan of lots of resolutions and goals. Focusing on a few fitness goals will bring greater results than a list of 10 that make you feel overwhelmed.

Limiting the resolutions, being focused and maintaining consistency is the key.

Read more…

Predicting future cancer risk based on epigenetic variation in normal cells

Mar 27, 2012 Posted Under: Healthy Food News  

In an exciting research article published today in Genome Medicine, Andrew Teschendorff and colleagues provide evidence that the risk of cancer can be predicted by analyzing DNA methylation patterns in cells collected years in advance of the onset of disease. Their approach could provide the basis for a new clinical test with the ability to predict cancer risk in cells that appear morphologically normal.

In this study, researchers from University College London, Innsbruck Medical University and Central Manchester University Hospitals sought to determine whether normal cells collected from cancer patients prior to disease development have genomic markers that can predict future risk.

Read more…

Learning by experiment is all in a day’s play

Mar 24, 2012 Posted Under: Healthy Food Advices  

Preschool children spontaneously invent experiments in their play, according to research published this month in Cognition1. The findings suggest that basic scientific principles help very young brains to learn about the world.

Psychologists have been drawing a comparison between cognitive development and science for years — an idea referred to as ‘the child as scientist’. But recently scientists have been trying to discover whether this is more than just a neat analogy. <

Read more…

Overview of Cancer

Mar 20, 2012 Posted Under: Healthy Food News  

There are millions of people across the world who are suffering from Cancer.

Researchers are trying to find out the reasons through which cancer is caused and how it actually spreads. They are trying to find out methods that would ensure that cancer is detected and prevented easily and also is thus treated. So these researchers are constantly in the process of improving the quality of life for the people who are affected with cancer.

Cancer takes its origin in the cells, and these are the major building blocks that actually form the tissue. These tissues are the ones that totally make up the organs of the entire body.

Read more…

What is an Electronic Cigarette?

Mar 19, 2012 Posted Under: Healthy Food Reviews  

As we all know, smoking is not a very good habit, but what if I tell you, there is now a way to smoke and stay healthy. How? Turn your attention towards the electronic cigarette or e-cigarette. So what exactly is an e-cigarette? It is one of the many battery powered smoking devices that imitates the process of smoking by generating a fake smoking sensation, facade, flavouring and nicotine content. The best part of smoking an electronic cigarette is that it is odour-less with an ultimate goal to discard all smoking risks that might cause serious health problems. In order to create the ‘fake mist’ or ‘fake smoke’, the electronic cigarette uses heat to vaporize a liquid solution made out of propylene glycol. With so Read more…

Page 2 of 4312345...102030...Last »