Healthy Nuts
Researchers found that people who eat nuts regularly have lower risks of heart disease. In 1996, the Iowa Women’s Healthy Study found that women who ate nuts >4 times a week were 40% less likely to die of heart disease. Two years later, another study conducted by the Harvard School of Public Health found a [...]
Calcium is good
Ionized calcium in the plasma has many important functions including formation of bones and teeth, coagulation of blood, contraction of muscles, cardiac action, milk production, relay of electrical and chemical messages that arrive at a cell’s membrane to the biochemical machinery within the cell, keeping the membranes of the cell intact and in the metabolism [...]
Memory Killers
Memory is a marvel of human biology — essential to mankind’s way of life and survival, but so complex that it is not yet fully understood. As a physiological process, the storing and retrieval of information is imperfect and thus vulnerable to certain destructive forces (or memory killers). These forces can be both internal and [...]
Flowers can Hasten Healing
In a recent study of 90 patients recovering from surgery, Kansas State University researchers discovered that those with plants in their rooms had less anxiety and fatigue, lower blood pressure, and fewer intakes of pain medication than patients without plants. Contact with plant life appears to reduce stress, which in turn may help patients recuperate [...]
Green Tea benefits
The Chinese have known about the medicinal benefits of green tea since ancient times, using it to treat everything from headaches to depression. In her book Green Tea: The Natural Secret for a Healthier Life, Nadine Taylor states that green tea has been used as a medicine in China for at least 4,000 years.
Today, scientific [...]
Papaya Fruit
It’s not hard to see why Christopher Columbus called the papaya “the fruit of the angels.” One large papaya is packed with 235 milligrams of vitamin C-two to three times more than you RDA and is excellent source of vitamin A, potassium, and calcium. Believed to be native to southern Mexico and neighboring Central America, [...]
