Study Finds Vinegar Kills Germs Just as Well or Better Than Some Commercial Cleaners

We are sorry to inform you that you have wasted all that money on so many different household cleaners, while you’ll only need two things to clean the entire house: vinegar and baking soda.

They can be used separately, together, or mixed with other natural products, and they will always be the healthiest and less toxic way to clean the home.

Baking soda, or sodium bicarbonate, is a mild alkali that cleans and deodorizes, while vinegar is an acid that is an effective alternative to popular cleaners, including bleach. It also deodorizes and removes rust, mold, and stains.

Here are five reasons why you should replace all those store-bought products and turn to baking soda and vinegar:

1. Non-Toxic
While commercial cleaners are full of cancer-causing, hormone-disrupting, DNA-mutating chemicals, these two are non-toxic. Baking soda is a simple, chemical compound of sodium and bicarbonate. It is also found in nature.
Distilled white vinegar is made from fermented grain, and is natural and non-toxic.

2. Vinegar Kills Germs
One study found that vinegar is just as effective as, or even better than, 6 top commercial disinfectants at a microbial reduction. Moreover, vinegar effectively kills flu viruses.

US researchers from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine discovered that vinegar efficiently killed Mycobacterium tuberculosis — the bacteria that causes tuberculosis — after 30 mins of exposure to a six percent acetic solution.

According to Professor Peter Collignon, an infectious diseases physician at the Australian National University’s medical school, “TB is a hard-to-kill bacteria, so the fact that it works against them means most other bacteria will likely be killed by vinegar as well.”

3. Clean Better
The combination of baking soda and vinegar can do wonders in the bathroom and kitchen. The abrasive of the baking soda gives extra scrubbing power, so you will easily clean all dirty surfaces and grease.

4. Environmentally Friendly
Commercial cleaners contain pollutants that are toxic to animals, contribute to smog, and reduce the quality of drinking water. On the other hand, vinegar and baking soda are the most green options for cleaning your home.

5. Cheaper
To clean the entire house for nearly forever, you will spend $10 for a 13.5-pound bag of baking soda, and $4 for a gallon of distilled white vinegar. Now compare this with the prices of commercial cleaners!

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Coffee bean extract may be beneficial in reducing fat-induced inflammation

When coffee beans are processed and roasted the husk and silverskin of the bean are removed and unused, and often are left behind in fields by coffee producers.

Food science and human nutrition researchers have discovered  inflammation-fighting phenolic compounds — protocatechuic acid and gallic acid — in the silverskin and husk of coffee beans not only for their benefits in alleviating chronic disease but also in adding value to would-be ‘waste’ products from the coffee processing industry.

“This material from coffee beans is interesting mainly because of its composition. It’s been shown to be non-toxic. And these phenolics have a very high anti-oxidant capacity,” said  co-author of the study.

When fat cells of mice were treated with water-based extracts from coffee beans skins, the phenolic compounds reduced fat-induced inflammation in the cells and improved glucose absorption and insulin sensitivity.

The findings show promise for these bioactive compounds, when consumed as part of the diet, as a strategy for preventing obesity-related chronic illnesses, such as Type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease.

For the study, the fat cells and immune cells were cultured together to recreate the ‘real-life’ interaction between the two cells.

When obesity-related inflammation is present, the fat cells and immune cells work together — stuck in a loop–to increase oxidative stress and interfere with glucose uptake, worsening the situation.

In order to block this loop and prevent chronic disease, the researchers’ goals are to eliminate or reduce as much inflammation as possible in order to allow glucose uptake to be facilitated, as well as to have healthy cells that will produce adequate insulin.

The researchers also stressed the positive impact on the environment of using the coffee bean by-products.

During coffee processing, the bean is separated from the husk, the external outer layer of the bean. After the bean is roasted, the silverskin layer is separated.

“It’s a huge environmental problem because when they separate this husk after processing, it usually stays in the field fermenting, growing mold, and causing problems,” explained one of the researcher.

Worldwide, 1,160,000 tonnes of husk are left in fields per year, potentially causing contamination.

Additionally, 43,000 tonnes of silverskin is produced each year, which, the researcher  adds, may be easier to utilize because it stays with the bean as it is exported to different countries to be roasted.

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Soft wearable sensors to detect disabilities in premature kids

Scientists have developed a soft, non-toxic wearable sensor that can be attached to the hand to monitor force of a grasp and the motion of the fingers.

Children born prematurely often develop neuromotor and cognitive developmental disabilities.
The best way to reduce the impacts of those disabilities is to catch them early through a series of cognitive and motor tests.

However, accurately measuring and recording the motor functions of small children is tricky.
As any parent will tell you, toddlers tend to dislike wearing bulky devices on their hands and have a predilection for ingesting things they shouldn't.

"We have developed a new type of conductive liquid that is no more dangerous than a small drop of salt water," said a researcher.

"It is four times more conductive than previous biocompatible solutions, leading to cleaner, less noisy data,"he said.

The sensing solution is made from potassium iodide, which is a common dietary supplement, and glycerol, which is a common food additive.

After a short mixing period, the glycerol breaks the crystal structure of potassium iodide and forms potassium cations (K+) and iodide ions (I-), making the liquid conductive.

Since glycerol has a lower evaporation rate than water, and the potassium iodide is highly soluble, the liquid is both stable across a range of temperatures and humidity levels and highly conductive.

"Previous biocompatible soft sensors have been made using sodium chloride-glycerol solutions but these solutions have low conductivities, which makes the sensor data very noisy, and it also takes about 10 hours to prepare," he said.

"We've shortened that down to about 20 minutes and get very clean data," he said.

The design of the sensors also takes the need of children into account.

Rather than a bulky glove, the silicon-rubber sensor sits on top of the finger and on the finger pad.

"We often see that children who are born early or who have been diagnosed with early developmental disorders have highly sensitive skin," said  an associate professor.

"By sticking to the top of the finger, this device gives accurate information while getting around the sensitively of the child's hand," said the associate Prof.

Researchers currently study motor function using motion capture.

While the technology can tell a lot about movement, it cannot measure force, which is critical to diagnosing neuromotor and cognitive developmental disabilities.

"Early diagnosis is the name of the game when it comes to treating these developmental disabilities and this wearable sensor can give us a lot of advantages not currently available," he said.
This paper only tested the device on adult hands.

Next, the researchers plan to scale down the device and test it on the hands of children.

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New material to repair bone defects developed

Using near-infrared (NIR) light irradiation, researchers have developed a bio-material that can accelerate bone healing.

While thermal therapy has been traditionally used to treat bone regeneration, it has been proved inefficient in delivering the appropriate amount of heat to the correct part of the patient's body and may cause side effects such as surface burns.

On the other hand, NIR light is electromagnetic radiation with longer wavelengths than those of visible light. Due to higher transmittance through biological tissues, it has been used as a photo-thermal therapy to release heat.

Researchers developed an implantable bio-composite made of black phosphorus nanomaterial and a widely-used tissue-engineering chemical compound to repair bone defects and promote the growth of new bone, researcher reported on Saturday.

Phosphorus is one of the vital elements constituting about 1 per cent of the total human body weight. With the black phosphorus nano-material, the composite has shown a highly-efficient photo-thermal response.

Even when the composite is covered by a tissue barrier as thick as 7 mm, it can still increase the temperature under the NIR light irradiation.

In the experiments conducted on rats, researchers found that the most effective target temperature by the NIR light-trigger is between 39.5 and 40.5 degrees Celsius, only about 3 to 5 degrees higher than the normal human body temperature.

According to lead author, the composite has large clinical potential. It is biodegradable and can produce non-toxic end products such as water and carbon dioxide which can also serve as necessary bone ingredients.

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This novel method can predict fatal heart disease

A novel method called stress cardiac MRI can not only diagnose heart disease, but can also predict which cases are potentially fatal, suggests a new research.

The study showed that predicting mortality is a key requirement for the technology to be more widely used. 

In addition, results suggest cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) has the potential to be a non-invasive, non-toxic alternative to stress echocardiograms, catheterisations and stress nuclear exams in identifying the severity of the coronary heart disease.

"We've known for some time that CMR is effective at diagnosing coronary artery disease, but it's still not commonly used and represents less than one per cent of stress tests used in this country," said  senior author of the study.

For the study, researchers analysed data from more than 9,000 patients who underwent CMR.

The findings, showed that for patients without any history of  heart disease and at low-risk based on traditional clinical criteria, those with an abnormal CMR scan were 3.4 times more likely to die compared to patients with a normal CMR scan.

For the entire patient population, there was a strong association between an abnormal stress CMR and mortality, even after adjusting for patient age, sex and cardiac risk factors, the team found.

While non-invasive cardiac stress testing is a cornerstone in the clinical management of patients with known or suspected coronary artery disease, CMR works as well or better than other exams at identifying heart wall motion, cell death and the presence of low blood flow, said the study.

Furthermore, the technology does not require any radiation exposure, which is essential in nuclear stress tests.

"With the findings from this study suggesting that stress CMR is effective in predicting mortality, we provide a strong basis for a head-to-head study between stress CMR and other modalities," the author noted.

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25-year old student discovers way to kill superbugs without antibiotics

The rise and proliferation of antibiotic-resistant bacteria is becoming an increasingly prominent threat, not just here in the states but across the world. In light of this, the search for a means by which to fight these resistant bacteria without the use of antibiotic agents has become of utmost importance. Currently, about 700,000 people succumb to antibiotic-resistant infections annually, but that number is predicted to skyrocket to about 10 million by the year 2050 if we don’t change our ways. Fortunately, one 25-year-old student may have discovered at least one method of fighting off such organisms with ease.

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Ph.D. student and her peers recently pioneered what they believe is a way to circumvent the use of antibiotics. In an interview she said, “We’ve developed a new class of antimicrobial agents, which are very unique. They come in the form of tiny star-shaped molecules that are made from short chains of proteins. We found that they are very effective at wiping out [bacterial] infections in mice and they are also relatively non-toxic to the body.”

In addition to being rather adorable, these little star-shaped protein molecules actually attach to bacteria and then tear apart their cell walls. The researcher says that when the stars attach to bacteria’s cell walls it disrupts their cell division process. The process of dividing and multiplying is how bacteria survive. When the star polymers attach, it also creates a lot of stress for the bacteria, and actually initiates a process of self-destruction. So, in addition to preventing the proliferation of bacteria, the stars actually help to kill off the present bacteria as well.

“We still need to do a lot of studies and a lot of tests—for example, to see whether these polymers have any side effects on our bodies,” the researcher explains, but she is very hopeful that the finding can be of use in the near future.