Sound Waves To Fight Prostrate Cancer

Scientists claim to have come up with a unique way to treat prostrate cancer, by using sound waves to blast tumour cells. According to them, the new method will have fewer side-effects.

The experiment used sound waves known as, HIFU, i.e., high intensity focused ultrasound. It can even treat areas of cancer just a few millimetres in size. In this trial, 95% patients were cancer-free after a year. The sound waves cause the tissue to vibrate & heat up, killing the cells in the target area.

Performed in hospital under general anaesthetic, most patients are back home within 24 hours. This is a less invasive procedure where only the tumour & surrounding tissues are removed.

The results show that 1 year after treatment, none of the 41 men in the trial had incontinence, a major side-effect of treatment.

Foods which help to reduce weight

Bananas- are good for weight reduction ! Eating only 6 bananas a day & drinking skimmed milk/ buttermilk for 10-15 days. Then eat 4 bananas & start adding come green vegetables. If one continues on this diet , the desired weight loss can be achieved. Bananas are good, as they practically have no sodium.

Cabbage has tartronic acid, which inhibits the conversion of sugar & other carbohydrates into fat. eating cabbage salad is a painless & simple way to stay slim. as 100 gm of cabbage has only 27 calories. Cabbage has maximum biological value & minimum calorie value. It gives a feeling of fullness & is easily digestible.

Tomatoes- eating 1 or 2 ripe tomatoes early morning & having no breakfast for a few months is a safe way to reduce weight. It has essential food elements.

Groundnuts/ Peanuts- eating a handful of roasted nuts with tea/ coffee without sugar an hour before lunch time, helps to reduce weight. As it reduces appetite & weight loss will gradually happen.

STRESS RELIEF. Is salt bad for hypertensive?

What is bad for hypertension is iodized salt, which is a fake salt. It is made up of only 3 synthetic chemicals, sodium, chloride, iodine. It does not melt in water (glistens like diamonds), does NOT melt in the
body, does not melt in the kidneys, gives kidney stones, and raises blood pressure. However, it is the salt favored by the synthetic. The drug-based doctors who say it is very clean and sanitary, pointing to
how white it is and how it glistens like diamonds. The fake salt is man-made in a factory.The true salt, which comes from the sea and dried under the sun and commonly called rock salt , has 72 natural minerals including natural sodium, chloride, iodine. It melts in water, melts in your body, melts in the kidneys, do not give kidney
stones, and best of all brings down blood pressure and stops/prevents muscle cramps, numbness, tingling.


If you get muscle cramps in the lower legs at night, just take ½ teaspoon of rock salt and a glass of water, and the cramps with its horrific pain will be gone in 5 minutes. The highest BP that came my way was in a woman who had a BP of 240/140 and came to my house at
10:30pm on what she said was a matter of "life and death" because the high BP was already giving her a crushing headache, especially the back of her head. She could not walk up the 6 shallow steps to my porch. Two men had to help her, one on each side, in addition to the
cane that she needed to prop herself up.

I muscle tested her and found that underlying her BP of 240/140 and the crushing pain in the head, her body's water content was only 6% (normal is 75%), salt content was zero, potassium was 96% deficient, and cardiac output (blood flow from the heart) was only 40% (normal is
100%). So the blood supply to the head was 60% deficient.


I gave her one 6" long green chili (hot pepper), 1 raw ripe saba banana, 1/2 teaspoon of rock salt and 3 8-oz glasses of tap water. The chili was to normalize cardiac output and shoot blood
to the head, the saba banana was for the potassium deficiency and to have food in the
stomach because pepper will give a stomach ache if the stomach is empty, and the rock salt and the water were the first aid for her severe dehydration which was causing her arteries to be dry and stiff and her blood to be thick and sticky, because they were dehydrated.

After 5 minutes, she said, "The pain in my head is gone." We took her BP, it was 115/75, and cardiac output was up to 100%.

She walked out of the house to her car without the men helping her and without the cane.

She has been taking 2.5 teaspoons of rock salt, 15 glasses of water, 6 Saba bananas and 3 of the long pepper daily since then (beginning September 2009), and her BP and cardiac output have been normal since then.


Two months later, in November, at a PCAM round table forum on hypertension in Club Filipino, she gave her testimony, followed by her brother who said that she grew 2", because the salt and the water had refilled her compressed disc spaces in her vertebral column. The disc 
spaces had become compressed because they had become dehydrated since the fluid filling up these discs are 95% water.

Why salt?
Because without salt the body cannot retain water no matter how much water is drunk. You will still be dehydrated because you will just keep urinating and sweating the water out.

This is not an isolated case. When BP is rising high but there is little or no headache but there is stiffness of shoulder and neck muscles, all you need to normalize the BP and remove the stiffness and the pain in 5 minutes is 1/2 teaspoon of rock salt and 3 glasses of water. If there is crushing pain in the head, it means blood supply to the head is lacking, and you will need the chili to normalize it and shoot blood to the head and remove the extreme pain.

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Tomatoes good for heart

 TOMATO                          HEART 

A TOMATO is red and usually has four chambers, just like our heart.

Tomatoes are also a great source of lycopene,  a plant chemical that reduces the risk of heart 
disease and several cancers. The Women's Health Study, an American research programe
which tracks the health of 40,000 women, found women with the highest blood levels of
lycopene had 30 per cent less heart disease than women who had very little lycopene.
Lab experiments have also shown that lycopene helps counter the effect of unhealthy LDL cholesterol.
One Canadian study, published in the journal Experimental Biology and Medicine,
said there was convincing evidence that lycopene prevented coronary heart disease.

Grapes helps to reduce the risk of Lung cancer

GRAPES                   LUNGS 

OUR lungs are made up of branches of ever-smaller airways that finish up with tiny bunches
of tissue called alveoli.  These structures, which resemble bunches of  grapes, allow oxygen
to pass from the lungs to the  blood stream. One reason that very premature  babies struggle
to survive is that these alveoli do not begin to form until week 23 or 24 of pregnancy.
A diet high in fresh fruit, such as  grapes, has been shown to reduce the risk of lung  cancer
and emphysema.
Grape seeds also contain a chemical called proanthocyanidin, which appears to reduce
the severity of asthma triggered by allergy.

Have Cheese for strong Bones

CHEESE                       BONES  

A nice holey cheese, like Emmenthal, is not just good for your bones, it even resembles
their internal structure. And like most cheeses, it is a rich source of calcium, a vital
ingredient for strong bones and reducing the risk of osteoporosis later in life. 
Together with another mineral called phosphate, it provides the main strength in
bones  but also helps to power muscles. Getting enough calcium in the diet during
childhood is crucial for strong bones. A study at Columbia   University in New York
showed teens who increased calcium intake from 800mg a day to 1200mg equal to an
extra two slices of cheddar - boosted their bone density by six per cent.

Nausea? have ginger

GINGER                     STOMACH 

Root ginger, commonly sold in supermarkets, often looks just like the stomach.
So it's interesting that one of its biggest benefits is aiding digestion.
The Chinese have been using it for over 2,000  years to calm the stomach and cure nausea,
while  it is also a popular remedy for motion sickness.  But the benefits could go much further. 
Tests on mice at the University of Minnesota found injecting the chemical that gives ginger its
flavour slowed down the growth rate of bowel tumours.

BROCCOLI reduces risk of Prostate cancer

BROCCOLI              CANCER 

Close-up, the tiny green tips on a broccoli head look like hundreds of cancer cells.
Now scientists know this disease-busting veg can play a crucial role in preventing the disease.
Last year, a team of researchers at the US National Cancer Institute found just a weekly serving
of broccoli was enough to reduce the risk of prostate cancer by 45 per cent. In Britain , prostate
cancer kills one man every hour.

Eat Bananas for better moods

 

BANANA      (SMILE)      DEPRESSION 

Cheer yourself up and put a smile on your face by eating a banana.
The popular fruit contains a protein called  tryptophan.
Once it has been digested, tryptophan then gets converted in a chemical neurotransmitter
called serotonin. This is one of the most important mood-regulating chemicals in the brain
and most anti-depressant drugs work by adjusting levels of serotonin production.
Higher levels are associated with better moods.

Mushrooms are a good source of Vit. D

MUSHROOM                   EAR                 

Slice a mushroom in half and it resembles the shape of the human ear.  And guess what?
Adding it to your cooking could actually improve your hearing. That's because
mushrooms are one of the few foods in our diet that contain vitamin D.
This particular vitamin is important for healthy bones, even the tiny ones in the ear
that transmit sound to the brain.

‘Breast cancer is actually 10 different diseases’

 Breast cancer is "not one disease, but 10 different diseases", according to a 'landmark study' that could revolutionize its treatment.

An international team of researchers that analysed breast cancers from 2,000 women said the classifications could help improve treatment by tailoring drugs for patients' exact type of breast cancer and also predict survival more accurately. It will take at least three more years for the findings to be used in hospitals, the researchers said.

In the study, published in the journal Nature, the team analysed genetics of frozen breast cancer samples from 2,000 women at hospitals in the UK and Canada. They looked in huge detail at the genetics of the tumour cells - which genes had been mutated, which genes were working in overdrive, which were being shut down.

They found that all the different ways the cells changed when cancerous could be grouped into 10 different categories, named IntClust one to 10. Each tumour within a particular group shares similar genes and different women with the same type have similar odds of survival.

"Breast cancer is not one disease, but 10 different diseases," lead researcher professor Carlos Caldas, was quoted as saying by the BBC News.

He added, "Our results will pave the way for doctors in the future to diagnose the type of breast cancer a woman has, the types of drugs that will work and those that won't, in a much more precise manner than is currently possible."

At the moment, breast cancers are classified by what they look like under the microscope and tests for "markers" on the tumours. Those with "oestrogen receptors" should respond to hormone therapies, while those with a "Her2 receptor" can be treated with Herceptin.

The vast majority of breast cancers, over 70%, should respond to hormone therapies. However, their reaction to treatment varies wildly. "Some do well, some do horribly. Clearly we need better classification," said Caldas.

Dr Harpal Singh, of Cancer Research UK that funded the study, said, "This study will change the way we look at breast cancer, it will have an enormous impact in diagnosing and treating breast cancer."

He added the charity would begin using the new criteria in clinical trials it funded. Outside of trials for new cancer drugs, the new breast cancer rulebook could take some time to directly benefit patients.

White matter 'to be blamed for trouble in decision making with age'

 People's ability to make decisions in novel situations decreases with age and is associated with a reduction in the integrity of two specific white-matter pathways that connect an area in the cerebral cortex, called the medial prefrontal cortex, with two other areas deeper in the brain, a new study has revealed.

Grey matter is the part of the brain that contains the bodies of the neurons while white matter contains the cable-like axons that carry signals from one part of the brain to another.

In the past, most brain-imaging research has concentrated on the grey matter. Recently, however, neuroscientists have begun looking more closely at white matter.

It has been linked to the brain's processing speed and attention span, among other things, but this is the first study to link white matter to learning and decision making.

"The evidence that this decline in decision-making is associated with white-matter integrity suggests that there may be effective ways to intervene," Gregory R. Samanez-Larkin, first author of the study from Vanderbilt's psychology department and Institute of Imaging Science, said.

"Several studies have shown that white-matter connections can be strengthened by specific forms of cognitive training," he said.

The critical white-matter connections that the experiment identified run from the thalamus, a highly connected relay centre in the brain, to the medial prefrontal cortex, an area of the brain involved with decision making, and from the medial prefrontal cortex to the ventral striatum, which is associated with the emotional and motivational aspects of behaviour.

The study involved 25 adults ranging from 21 to 85 years of age. They were asked to perform a monetary learning task. The task was designed to elicit what psychologists call probabilistic reward learning.

"This is a common type of decision making that we use every day.
"Whenever we try to choose the best alternative based on previous experience and are uncertain of the outcome, we are relying on probabilistic reward learning," Samanez-Larkin said.
On the same day, the participant's brains were scanned using a relatively new MRI technique called diffusion tensor imaging (DTI).

In the last 20 years, most brain imaging research has been done with fMRI, an imaging method that measures variations in the oxygen consumption in different areas of the grey matter, which correspond to variations in neuron activity levels.

By contrast, DTI detects the water trapped by the myelin sheaths that surround the axons in white-matter regions and produces a signal related to the density, diameter and amount of myelination of the axons (a combination the researchers call 'integrity').
"The protocols for DTI have improved substantially.

"In future studies we'd really like to combine MRI and DTI to better characterize age differences in these neural circuits and examine how training might improve both structure and function," Samanez-Larkin added.

A synthetic anti-malaria drug

 India has developed a powerful new malaria drug - an alternative to the global drug of choice Artemisinin - that promises to be a major boost to India's pharmaceutical research.

What is most exciting about this new drug is that its raw materiel is synthetic (derived chemically in the lab) as against Artemisinin, which is derived from a plant.


 A Dr.  from the National Institute of Malaria Research (NIMR) said this new once-a-day therapy for three days contains Arterolane and Piperaquine.

"Clinical trials conducted by NIMR comparing the Arterolane and Piperaquine combination has shown it to be as effective and as safe as artemisinin combinations like Artesunate and Sulphadoxine which is used in the national malaria programme," said the Dr, who was the principal investigator of the trials.

Artemisinin derivatives are most rapid acting and effective anti-malarial medicines, according to the.  Dr.

Artemisinin is the only high-volume drug that continues to be produced from a plant-based source. China and Vietnam provide 70% and East Africa 20% of the raw material. Seedlings are grown in nurseries and then transplanted into fields. It takes about eight months for them to attain full size. The plants are harvested, leaves dried and sent to facilities where artemisinin is extracted. The market price for artemisinin has fluctuated widely, between $120 and $1,200 per kg from 2005 to 2008.


However, they are plant derived and, therefore, there can be mismatch in demand and supply. It is used in combination with different drugs (artemisinin-based combination therapy). Now, five combinations are recommended by WHO. On the other hand, since this new drug is synthetic, its raw materials are created chemically in the lab. This will ensure constant supply of raw material and standardize costs," added the Dr .


Arterolane in combination with long acting piperaquine has been studied in phase II and III clinical trials in India, Bangladesh and Thailand. Most malaria parasites have become resistant to anti-malarial drugs.

To protect artemisinin from developing resistance, it is recommended that it should only be used in combination with partners and oral artemisinin should never be used as monotherapy. The Drugs Controller General of India has imposed a ban on use of oral artemisinin monotherapy for uncomplicated falciparum malaria.

Artemisinin resistance is characterized by slow parasite clearance. Artemisinin Combination Therapies (ACT) kills malaria parasite in a human bloodstream within 24-36 hours. With the drug-resistant strain, ACT needs up to 120 hours to kill the parasite.

Unsatisfactory Job may trigger back pain

Unsatisfactory jobs may give a headache to many, but a study says that they can also cause acute back pain.

Researchers at University of Western Australiahave found that workers who resign themselves to work in unsatisfactory jobs are more likely to suffer from serious, persistent lower back pain than others with a positive attitude.

In their study, they found that a third of people studied with niggling non-specific back pain went on to develop daily back pain that severely affected their career and social lives.

Although the workers required extended sick leave and went to their doctors complaining of pain, only a few had suffered a physical change such as a slipped disc. Anatomical tests showed no reasons for their ongoing daily problems with pain, say the researchers.

"Everybody has occasional lower back or neck pain but we are concerned about people with continuous non-specific pain for weeks at a time, which has significant socio-economic and personal costs," professor Markus Melloh, who led the team, said.

The researchers found that patients who continued to show "maladaptive cognitions" such as fear and helplessness about their condition, movement avoidance and magnification of its seriousness were likely to develop a persistent condition.

"Attitude in the workplace and positive thinking have a huge impact on lower back pain. If an employee has the option to participate in change in their workplace or have some say in their job design, they can regain a positive attitude and the condition may correct itself ," Melloh said.

Enzyme in Liver may help to reduce obesity

Australian scientists have claimed that the liver could help in treating obesity after they found that it plays a major role in regulating weight by communicating with the brain.

Researchers of University of Melbourne said that they believed that human bodies may have an innate system in place to limit excessive weight gain caused by eating fatty foods. However,the system only works in response to saturated fat in a normal diet and would not stop obesity in people who ate fat and sugar-laden diets.

Researchers found that an enzyme in the liver increased when fatty foods were consumed and sent a signal to the brain to reduce appetite-stimulating genes, reported Australian news agency AAP.

The overall affect was that after fat was consumed the brain told the body to reduce its food intake, thereby limiting weight gain.

Melbourne University researcher Barbara Fam said people who eat a fatty diet would still become overweight , but the system probably limit the weight gained.

"We believe that this enzyme is really important in stopping the body from gaining any more weight," she said.

Ice cream’s links to brain freeze

You may have been familiar with brain freeze, or the excruciating headache after eating ice cream or something frozen. Now, scientists have explained that it's caused by a rapid increase in blood flow through a major blood vessel in the brain.

The findings could lead to develop new treatments for migraine sufferers who often get brain freeze, LiveScience reported.

In experiments carried out by researchers at the National University of Ireland in Galway andHarvard Medical School, a team of 13 healthy volunteers deliberately induced the brain freeze so the effects could be studied.

Researchers monitored blood flow through their brains. They found that blood flow to the brain through a blood vessel called the anterior cerebral artery, which is located in the middle of the brain behind the eyes, increased.

This increase in flow and resulting increase in size in this artery brought on the pain associated with brain freeze.

Dark chocolate may reduce cardio risks

Dark chocolate, rich in flavanols, may reduce the risk against cardiovascular diseases by lowering blood pressure, blood flow and improving blood lipid levels, says a new study.
Flavanols, compounds also found in grapes, berries and apples, counteract the role of rogue oxygen molecules known as free radicals which not only damage healthy cells, but also alter cellular DNA and are known to cause at least 60 different health problems, ranging from heart ailments to cancer.
A group of people was randomly assigned by researchers at the San Diego State University, US, to take either a daily serving (50 grams) of regular dark chocolate (70 percent cocoa) or its version that had been overheated or "bloomed," or white chocolate (no cocoa), for a period of 15 days.
According to a university statement, blood pressure, forearm skin blood flow, circulating lipid profiles, and blood glucose levels of the subjects were recorded at the beginning and end of the study.
When compared to those assigned to the white chocolate group, those consuming dark chocolate had lower blood glucose and low-density of lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL or 'bad' cholesterol) levels coupled with higher high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL, the 'good' form), the study said.
Researchers thus concluded that dark chocolate may reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease by improving glucose levels and lipid profiles. However, they cautioned that it must be eaten in moderate quantity, as it can easily increase daily amounts of saturated fat and calories.
"We had great compliance with our study subjects because everybody wanted to eat chocolate. We actually had to tell them not to eat more than 50 grams a day," a researcher said, adding that the university is planning follow-up studies involving more people and a longer duration of chocolate consumption.

Fertility drugs tied to cancer

 Women who pop fertility pills to conceive can raise their future children's risk of developing leukaemia, says a new study. 

Researchers in France found that children were 2.6 times more likely to become ill with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL), the most common type of childhood leukaemia, if their mothers had been treated with ovarystimulating drugs. They had a 2.3-fold increased risk of suffering the rarer form of the disease, acute myeloid leukaemia (AML). Children conceived naturally after their mothers waited over a year to get pregnant had a 50% greater-than-normal likelihood of developing ALL, the Daily Mail reported. 

But, no heightened risk of childhood leukaemia was associated either with in-vitro fertilization or artificial insemination , say researchers. It has always been hypothesized that assisted reproductive technologies may be involved in onset of childhood cancer as they involve repeated treatment at the time of conception of sperm and egg. And it is now established that a majority of leukaemia have pre-natal origin.

Avocados may help keep you young

Avocados could help fight ageing and several diseases as they bolster cells' power centres against harmful free radicals, say scientists. 

A number of environmental factors - such as pollution, cigarette smoke and radiation - can turn the oxygen molecules found in mitochondria, the power plants of cells, into free radicals. 

These unstable molecules destroy virtually all the normal molecules forming cells, such as lipids, proteins and even DNA, by turning them into free radicals, too. 

This destructive phenomenon is associated with aging and occurs in a variety of diseases, including hypertension and diabetes, which represent major challenges for health systems due to their great social and economic costs. 

Many studies of antioxidants in vegetables and fruits, such as carrots and tomatoes, have been completed with few encouraging results. 

"The problem is that the antioxidants in those substances are unable to enter mitochondria," said Christian Cortes-Rojo, a researcher at Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolas de Hidalgo in Morelia, Michoacan, Mexico. 

"So free radicals go on damaging mitochondria, causing energy production to stop and the cell to collapse and die. An analogy would be that, during an oil spill, if we cleaned only the spilled oil instead of fixing the perforation where oil is escaping, then the oil would go on spilling, and fish would die anyway." 


But Cortes-Rojo is prepared to reveal the first research results showing the protective effects of avocado oil against free radicals in mitochondria. 

The research team used yeast cells - those used in wine and beer production - to examine avocado oil's properties. 

"The reason why we have chosen yeast," explains Cortes-Rojo, "is that (a) this microorganism is easier to study than other biological models due to its relative simplicity and (b) because studies our group published in 2009 and 2011 found that yeast mitochondria are very resistant to free radicals due to the sort of fat that forms its envelope, which is highly resistant to oxidation. 

"The same kind of fat can be found in avocado oil; but, in addition, avocados also contain some plant pigments that inhibit oxidation. That is why we decided to test whether these avocado ag

The results of this research, he said, show that avocado oil allowed the yeast cells to survive exposure to high concentrations of iron, which produces a huge amount of free radicals, "even to higher levels to those found in some human diseases." 

"These results could be attributed to the fact that avocado oil caused accelerated respiration in mitochondria, which indicate that the use of nutrients for producing energy for cell functions remains effective even in cells attacked by free radicals and that mitochondria itself could produce little amounts of damaging free radicals," he continued. 

Cortes-Rojo emphasized that these findings reinforce the good reputation the avocado has when it comes to health maintenance. 

He points to pioneering research by Mario Alvizouri-Munoz, a doctor at the Morelia General Hospital, who demonstrated that avocado lowers the blood concentration of cholesterol and certain fats that are increased in diabetic patients and that may lead to stroke or heart attack. 


"Our results are promising because they indicate that avocado consumption could improve the health status of diabetic and other patients through an additional mechanism to the improvement of blood lipids," he said. 

"We'll need to confirm that what has been observed in yeasts could occur in higher organisms, such as humans. We hope this will be the case, because there are many vital processes conserved in organisms that seem very dissimilar to humans," he added.


ps- from a newspaper article

5 Foods that fight asthma

SPINACH -

It is a great source of magnesium, which improves symptoms of asthma. Studies show that people with asthma tend to have lower blood and tissue levels of magnesium, and increasing magnesium intake in the long run can reduce the incidence of asthma attacks. Spinach is also high in B vitamins which help reduce stress-related asthma attacks. 

RED PEPPER - 

It is rich in vitamin C, which is especially helpful in reducing inflammation. Ascorbic acid present in red peppers inhibits the production of an enzyme called phosphodiesterase, which is present in most common asthma drugs.

ONIONS - 

Onions have an anti-inflammatory and anti-asthmatic effect, inhibit the release of histamines, and reduce bronchial obstruction. Onions contain prostaglandins that relax the bronchial passageways and have anti-inflammatory and anti-allergic properties.

ORANGES AND LEMONS - 

Consuming fruits high in Vitamin C can help reduce the instance of asthma attacks, particularly in children. A study in Italy found that children who ate the fruit several times a week experienced significantly fewer asthma symptoms than children who did not regularly eat these types of fruits.

APPLES - 

Apples contain certain phytochemicals that can improve lung functioning in asthma sufferers. A study shows that children born to mothers who consumed four or more apples a week had half the chance of developing childhood asthma as did children born to women who consumed one or less apples per week.

Ugly Foods with Surprising Health Benefits

Although cooking vegetables does reduce the amount of certain vitamins, it can also liberate other nutrients, like antioxidants, allowing for greater absorption by the body. Research from the University of Oslo found that microwaving or steaming carrots, spinach, mushrooms, asparagus, broccoli, cabbage, green and red peppers, and tomatoes led to an increase in the antioxidant content of the foods (in that the antioxidants become more available for absorption). And still more research shows that lycopene, the powerful antioxidant that gives tomatoes and watermelon their red color, is better absorbed by the body when it's consumed in cooked or processed tomato products-salsa, spaghetti sauce, ketchup, etc.-rather than fresh tomatoes. 

Eating cooked vegetables has its pros and cons, but the bottom line is that it's important to eat your food in a variety of ways. Enjoy raw spinach in salads and go for wilted or steamed as a side dish with dinner.

Microwaving Veggies are safe

Despite what you might read on the Internet, microwaving your food does not "kill" nutrients. In fact, it can make certain nutrients more available to your body . In terms of the impact on your food's nutrients, microwaving is the equivalent of sautéing or heating up in a pan (just a lot more convenient). Research on this topic shows that whenever you cook greens (broccoli, spinach, etc), some of the B vitamins and other water-soluble vitamins are lost. The amount you lose depends on the duration and rigor in which the food is cooked-steaming broccoli in the microwave for 90 seconds is a lot different than nuking it for five minutes. Another example: Sautéing green beans in a pan allows for much better vitamin retention than if you were to boil them. Boiling leaches the most nutritients out of your food, so with the exception of potatoes, try to avoid boiling your vegetables.

Women more likely to suffer from Broken heart syndrome

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Not all Bacteria are Harmful !

Less than one per cent of bacteria cause disease: In day to day to day life, we are surrounded by bacteria – in fact, healthy human skin is covered in around 1000 different species of bacteria. However, contrary to popular belief, most bacteria are not harmful and, in fact, less than one per cent cause disease. Furthermore, many forms of bacteria are actually good for you, including many of those that live on your skin and in your gut.

Cash machines are as dirty as public toilets:

Cash machines are as dirty as public toilets: Few of us would wash our hands after getting money out from an ATM machine; however, cleanliness tests in Britain have revealed that cash machines are just as dirty as public toilets. Experts assessed swabs from the key pads on cash machines and also from nearby public toilets and found that they both contained the same types of bacteria known to cause sickness.

Optimism helps to ward off many diseases

Being optimistic can save your life: We all know that thinking positively can have a great impact on your happiness, however research has also revealed that being an optimist can help you live longer. Research findings published in the European Heart Journal reveal that optimistic people are less likely to suffer from heart disease, while researchers at Duke University Medical Center found that heart patients who were more optimistic about their ...