Food & Health

Path Is Found for the Spread of Alzheimer’s: Alzheimer’s disease seems to spread like an infection from brain cell to brain cell. What is being spread is a distorted protein known as tau. This has immediate implications for developing treatments.
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Potatoes lower BP: USDA study: Potatoes lower blood pressure in people with obesity and hypertension without increasing weight ~ Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry
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Alzheimer's Prevention Camp Grows: Alzheimer's Disease (also known as dementia) is considered to be incurable. Once the damage to the brain is sufficiently advanced, there is no going back. But what if Alzheimer's Disease could be prevented?
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Are religious people more stable?: Psychological research has found that religious people feel great about themselves, with a tendency toward higher social self-esteem and better psychological adjustment than non-believers. But a new study...., finds that this is only true in countries that put a high value on religion.
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India scores major victory in battle to eradicate polio: On Friday, India is set to reach a major milestone in the global battle against polio, recording a full year without a single new case of the disease in the country that was long its epicenter and its biggest exporter. It is a massive global public health achievement that has defied the odds and confounded the skeptics,
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Turmeric: The Healing Herb (How to make Golden Milk): Most people from India are used to the many spices added to their food; but many might not realize the health benefits of one of them called Turmeric (also known as "Haldi" in India). Turmeric is great in food, but also has many health benefits. It can be used as an anti-inflammatory for people suffering from arthritis, joint pain, clear the skin, muscle pain & many other benefits.
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Why Sugar Makes Us Sleepy (And Protein Wakes Us Up): “We think we are what we think and see when in truth we are upright bags of tripe.” This is a tragic fact that we spend most our lives trying to forget. Although we like to imagine ourselves as the driver – our consciousness is in full control – that belief is a lovely illusion. In reality, we are mere passengers aboard the body, strapped to a fleshy engine that is driving us.
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Keep Arms And Legs Hairy To Keep Bed Bugs Away: Looking to avoid confrontations with bed bugs? You will be better off not shaving your legs according to researchers in the UK.
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Study Shows Meditation Changes Brain Structure in Just 8 Weeks: Participants in an 8 week meditation class experienced structural brain changes including increased grey-matter density in the hippocampus, known to be important for learning and memory, and in structures associated with self-awareness, compassion and introspection.
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Purging Cells in Mice Is Found to Combat Aging Ills: In a potentially fundamental advance, researchers have opened up a novel approach to combating the effects of aging with the discovery that a special category of cells, known as senescent cells, are bad actors that promote the aging of the tissues. Cleansing the body of the cells, they hope, could postpone many of the diseases of aging.
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