Category Archives: Food and Nutritions
Do you have to forget the bread when you diet?
Have you tried to lose weight again and again, but you do not succeed and do not know what may be making your diet fail. Have you thought about the bread and other products made with refined flour? Well this could be the key. Read on and discover how to prevent the bread from becoming [...]
What is Benfotiamine?
Benfotiamine is a derivative of vitamin B1 is metabolized in the body after being absorbed quickly and completely through the digestive tract. Being lipophilic, its absorption and bioavailability are higher than those of vitamin B1. Benfotiamine is more potent than thiamine (vitamin B1) with a very specific structure that allows it to cross cell membranes [...]
Benefits of Cinnamon
Cinnamon has huge properties and health benefits and helps in the treatment of diverse ailments. The cinnamon is an evergreen tree of the laurel family of double-branched aromatic bark. Your tree comes from southern India and Sri Lanka, although it appears cultivated in many warm places in the world. His best-known species is obtained precisely [...]
Broccoli as A Treatment for Breast Cancer
A component of broccoli stem cells reduces breast cancer According to a new study by researchers at the Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Michigan, a compound derived from broccoli may help prevent or treat breast cancer by attacking the cancer stem cells (a small number of cells that stimulate the growth of tumors). [...]
Curry, Natural Anticancer
A group of scientists has shown that an extract present in the spice turmeric can kill cancer cells. It has long been believed that this chemical called curcumin, has healing powers and is already being tested as a treatment for arthritis and even dementia. Now, evidence of a team of scientists at the Cork Cancer [...]
Coffee, Possible Anticancer
Coffee may protect against cancer of the head and neck The results of a recent study add to the body of evidence that coffee protects against cancer, in this case of cancer of the head and neck. The full results of the study were published online in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, a journal of [...]
Barbecues and Cancer
How to protect against cancer that produces barbecue A study by the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has shown that the grid produces a number of carcinogens in meat. One class of these cancer-causing compounds known as heterocyclic amines (HA) is developed by the effect of heat on amino acids and creatinine in the flesh. In [...]
Good Food for The Brain
In order to return to school or work, here are 6 foods that are especially good for the brain Walnuts: Walnuts contain high amounts of antioxidants, some researchers say they can combat the damage caused by free radicals from our body into the DNA of brain cells. Carrots have long known that carrots are good [...]
Food to Improve Mood
Interestingly, phenylethylamine is causing us to feel the “spark” for falling in love, this scientific reality, curiously, has no scientific explanation: the effects of phenylethylamine is a feature that is still being studied. In a recent medical study found that intense exercise develops large quantities of this substance, scarcely present in depressed people. All these [...]
Food for Energy and Good Humor
Food is, from time immemorial, a source of energy and survival but may also have other purposes. According to the book written by nutritionist Susan Kleiner “The good moon diet” (diet of good humor), consumption of three servings of dairy a day are supplied to the brain the fuel it needs to stay awake and [...]