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Healthy foods to fight blood pressure

September 7, 2016 SrijitaBlood, Fight, Foods, Healthy, Pressure?, to

Here are a few items that you should stock up to reduce your blood pressure levels Fighting blood pressure and sugar levels while craving for food might be a difficult job. Here a few food items that can help you lower your blood pressure levels and keep it at a normal level. Spinach – Spinach is loaded with magnesium and also contains potassium which are key ingredients for lowering and maintaining healthy blood pressure levels. So add more greens to your daily dish and enjoy a healthy life minus all…

Food-as-Protection and the Fight Against Hypertension

September 6, 2016 SrijitaAgainst, and, Fight, Food-as-Protection, Hypertension, The

When it comes to controlling blood pressure, dietary recommendations tend to focus on what not to eat. However, also emphasizing which foods to eat more of offers a positive and encouraging approach for patients and provides even better protection against hypertension. From examining total dietary patterns to honing in on which specific foods, nutrients and compounds potentially offer the most benefits, this “food as protection” perspective is at the center of many studies on preventing or managing hypertension. Identifying Potential Protectors For example, while potassium is often lauded for lowering…

A Tiny Power Plant You Could Swallow to Fight Cancer

August 30, 2016 Srijitaa, Cancer, Could, Fight, Plant, Power, Swallow, tiny, to, You

Human beings benefit from more than four billion years of evolution in bio-energy. But come on. We can do better than that. So a group of researchers at Carnegie Mellon University are at work on a tiny battery made of our own chemicals they could put in a pill you’d swallow – a micro power plant that could deliver controlled-release therapies to fight disease with previously impossible precision and safety. Conventional time-release capsules deliver medicines in the form of small molecules. The more complex the agent, the more power and…

Mosquito Traps Laced With Human Scent Help Fight Malaria

August 14, 2016 SrijitaFight, Help, human, Laced, malaria, mosquito, Scent, Traps, With

Dutch and Kenyan scientists have designed a unique mosquito trap which uses human odour to attract the malaria-carrying insects, helping cut the number of cases dramatically, researchers said Wednesday.A three-year study in Kenya found the special traps baited with synthetic smell helped to catch 70 percent of the local malaria mosquito population, and led to a 30 percent drop in cases in households using the devices. Published Wednesday in The Lancet, the research was carried out on the Kenyan island of Rusinga with the participation of all 25,000 residents. “The…

Scientists Discover New Nutrition Model to Help Fight Obesity

August 1, 2016 SrijitaDiscover, Fight, Help, Model, New, nutrition, Obesity, Scientists, to

Calling for a radical rethinking of human nutrition science, scientists have developed a new framework called “nutritional geometry” which is the culmination of more than 20 years of research in the field. According to the authors, the new model will assist health professionals, dietitians and researchers to better understand and manage the complexities of obesity. The new model shows that protein has been the strongest driver influencing diet, regulating the intake of fat and carbohydrate. “Existing models for measuring health impacts of the human diet are limiting our capacity to…

Soldiers of our body starve to fight enemies, says study

July 14, 2016 Srijitabody, enemies, Fight, of, Our, Says, Soldiers, starve, Study, to

The regulatory T-cells (Tregs), which are responsible for suppressing aberrant immune responses that attack our body’s healthy cells and tissues and act as guards, face harsh conditions like starvation. For survival and continued function, these cells resort to autophagy (cannibalism) that can recycle non-essential portions of a starving cell to generate energy, says a study. Scientists from the National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS), Bengaluru, and the Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine (inStem), have explained in international journal `eLife’ as to how the defence mechanism in our…