February 5, 2012

Apple can help shed away excess fats

Apple can help shed away excess fats

Eating an apple before mealtime can lower your intake of calories during your dining — and the amount is significant. Appetite magazine concluded that consuming an apple before lunch can decrease your caloric ingestion at the meal by about 15%. The study showed that those who curbed their appetite with an apple before lunch ingested [...]

Pleasant images can reduce pain

Pleasant images can reduce pain

Universite de Montreal scientist have found that focusing on pleasant image could alleviate the sting. Emotions can alter how we react to pain since they are interlinked. Using pleasant, unpleasant or neutral images to elicit emotions and electric shocks for pain, scientist monitored the subjects’ brain reactions and found the pain was worse when paired [...]

Building immunity

Building immunity

We all know that immune cells can’t function without proper nutrition. In an outbreak of diseases, a deficiency of nutrients can be as dangerous as not washing your hands. One person need at least 15 mg of vitamin E daily. Selenium is another trace mineral that helps build the immune system enzymes, say Dr. Patricia [...]

Calcium can actually burn excess fats in the body

Calcium can actually burn excess fats in the body

The mineral Calcium is a powerful weight loss star, and weight loss plans can capitalize on it. Scientists stumbled on calcium’s magic by accident. In a Tennessee study of blood pressure in obese African Americans, people who added two cups of yogurt a day to their diet lost an average of five kilograms of body [...]

Cellphones are possibly carcinogenic

Cellphones are possibly carcinogenic

The Journal of the National Cancer Institute just published a study that tested the effects of cell phone usage on children and adolescents. The study included 1,000 people and compared a control group in good health with a control group of people diagnosed with brain tumors. The result showed that children who started to use [...]