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We associate vitamin D with calcium metabolism and bone strength but, in fact, this molecule has many other roles in the organism from which we can enumerate: it controls tissue differentiation during development and immunity. More than 900 different genes can attach to the vitamin D receptor, which is the protein th... |
22 April 2008
03:25 GMT |
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You pump thousands of vitamin pills into your body in order to live longer but, in fact, this only brings you one step closer to the verge of the grave. This is what the results of a meta-analysis of 67 studies made on 230,000 people are telling us.The study revealed not only that vitamin C does not have an apparent ... |
21 April 2008
04:14 GMT |
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Enjoying sunbaths and the daily milk cup? That's really good, and if you are a woman, this decreases your risk of developing breast cancer. This is the result of a research led by Sascha Abbas and Dr. Jenny Chang-Claude at the German Cancer Research Center, collaborating with a team at the University Hospitals i... |
19 April 2008
03:48 GMT |
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Mexican men know the secret of the chili. It's about folate, a vitamin abundant in liver, leafy green vegetables, citrus fruits, sunflower seeds and legumes (beans and their relatives). It may sound more familiar to you that women of child-bearing age must have proper levels of folate (vitamin B9) in their diet ... |
20 March 2008
14:06 GMT |
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In tales, the princess must kiss a frog to turn it into the charming prince. In reality, this may not happen, but frogs have various uses around the world. We cannot say frogs are a stable component of the human diet, but in some countries people do eat frogs. Italians and French consider the frog legs a delicacy an... |
27 February 2008
02:34 GMT |
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The makers of "Men in Black" had poor imagination in making their aliens, compared to what real developmental defects can offer. This odd baby that looks like a character from the "Star Wars" was born in Charikot, the headquarters of Dolakha district, on March 29, 2006, and a large crew gathered to witness the event.... |
23 February 2008
05:57 GMT |
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Is the sun good or bad for your health? A new research made at the U.S. Department of Energy, Brookhaven National Laboratory, and published in the "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences" points that what you gain with moderately increased exposure to sunlight (i.e. vitamin D, involved in preventing cancers... |
8 January 2008
03:29 GMT |
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Columbus and his crew were the first Europeans to taste the pineapple in the Caribbean in 1493. The king of Spain liked its taste very much and the fruit was spread worldwide; by 1548 it was already cultivated in the Philippines. By the 18th century, pineapple was considered a luxury fruit on the European royal table... |
23 November 2007
05:36 GMT |
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Sun lovers and cheese eaters got it: they will live longer than others. A new research published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition found that vitamin D could act against aging and inflammation. The study made by a British-American team on over 2,100 female twin pairs aged 19-79 showed that higher vitamin ... |
9 November 2007
05:31 GMT |
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Think on an invention that is a wrapping sheet, spoon, plate, and food, all at the same time, which can be eaten accompanying almost any other dish. This is the tortilla, a corn muffin and Mexico's base aliment. Corn is believed to have started being cultivated in Mexico thousands of years ago, and sustained gre... |
6 November 2007
14:06 GMT |
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Contraception has always been considered primarily a woman's responsibility. Now, men have the chance to 'help with this task', so that women can get rid of pills, IUDs and diaphragms...at least if they do not want to hear "Daddy" when they least expect it. Nowadays, men have only two options: vasecto... |
1 October 2007
15:41 GMT |
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You can eat as much meat, green vegetables, fruit, whole grains as you want, but it seems that even so there is not enough folic acid (vitamin B9) for a pregnant mother and the child she's carrying. A team led by Dr. Philippe De Wals of Université Laval's Department of Social and Preventive Medicine has sho... |
17 July 2007
02:47 GMT |
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Bread is said to break the waistline. But it seems that at the same time it can make you happy. A new research at the University of York and Hull York Medical School has established the connection between depression and low levels of folate (also called vitamin B9), which comes from vegetables (leaf vegetables, beans... |
28 June 2007
04:44 GMT |
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Filling the shopping cart has turned into an act of faith. But while buying food, you can be misled. Because many times you do not really know what you eat. I'm not referring to the mad cow disease or bird flu, which appear in all news and daily capture our attention, but on the way we are cheated by food produc... |
23 June 2007
06:58 GMT |
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These alien looking insects spend 17 years underground as larvae sucking sap from tree roots and spend just one summer singing as adults. But now nutritionists are looking at them as at a precious aliment: cicadas contain the same protein amount as red meat (pound per pound) and many vitamins and minerals. "They'... |
23 May 2007
03:10 GMT |
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There is a great danger threatening a man during his life: the prostate cancer. The surgery for prostate cancer leaves most men impotent, as nerves can be touched. Moreover, this is the second leading cause of cancer death in men: one British dies each hour due to this. A new research made on about 300,000 male subje... |
16 May 2007
05:30 GMT |
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What's the link between strong bones and TB?A team from Queen Mary's School of Medicine and Imperial College have found that vitamin D could fight against tuberculosis. TB kills annually about 2 million people worlwide, but developed countries are not spared: UK registered in 2006 a 2 % rise (8,000 new ca... |
14 May 2007
17:16 GMT |
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