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If you're struggling with high cholesterol - whether it's genetically inherited or a result of your lifestyle - and would like to avoid taking statins (cholesterol-lowering drugs), you could try the low-fat portfolio eating plan. This is a long-term dietary solution that involves eating a variety of foods w... |
6 June 2008
11:06 GMT |
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If ever there was a clinical trial in which all of us would love to take part, it's got to be this one: a study conducted by researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, focused on how eating dark chocolate impacts the human body. Can you spell yum? And apparently, it gets better: the results of t... |
14 May 2008
11:46 GMT |
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Since childhood, you've been hearing that chocolate destroys your teeth and makes you fat, but now, a now a series of researches have been made to show the beneficial health effects of chocolate. There is only one condition though: it must have as much cocoa as possible, even up to 60-75%. Thus, we're talki... |
22 April 2008
02:37 GMT |
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It is a vivid controversy: to eat or not to eat eggs. While a recent research has showed that consuming eggs reduces the risk of breast cancer in women by 24%, thanks to choline, a new one published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition reveals that middle-aged men who eat seven or more eggs hurry up to their... |
12 April 2008
04:30 GMT |
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Cholesterol may be dangerous, but it also has its good variant in the blood that decreases the risk of heart attack. If a new research made on mice has results that are also valid for humans, new therapies could boost the levels of the beneficial high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C) as a means of heart protec... |
8 August 2007
05:39 GMT |
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Scientists are working hard to demonstrate the beneficial effects that coffee has on our health, such as easing muscular pain or gout symptoms, or increasing sex drive. Others show that its effects are rather bogus, like the so-called energizing effect. But others get back to the subject, showing and - even more - ex... |
15 June 2007
10:51 GMT |
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Bacteria in your guts are not just simple guests eating on your leftovers. Beside digestive conditions, these bugs induce more severe problems, like obesity and now they were found to influence how fat is digested and deposited in the liver. An imbalanced gut flora can affect this metabolic path and trigger diseases.... |
25 May 2007
04:49 GMT |
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It is already clear that HIV infection induces metabolic shifts like impaired levels of cholesterol blood levels, insulin resistance or type 2 diabetes, all correlated to changes of fat distribution. Now a team at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) has linked HIV infection also to a higher risk of heart attack. Ev... |
24 April 2007
10:25 GMT |
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