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Powerful antioxidants of watermelon

Posted by kemston | Antioxidant, Watermelon | Tuesday 11 May 2010 6:27 pm

Powerful antioxidant of watermelonWatermelon is an excellent source of vitamin C and a very good source of vitamin A, notably through its concentration of beta-carotene. Pink watermelon is also a source of the potent carotenoid antioxidant, lycopene. These powerful antioxidants travel through the body neutralizing free radicals. Free radicals are substances in the body that can cause a great deal of damage.

They are able to oxidize cholesterol, making it stick to blood vessel walls, where it can lead to heart attack or stroke. Fortunately, vitamin C and beta-carotene are very good at getting rid of these harmful molecules and can therefore prevent the damage they would otherwise cause. (more…)

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Preventing heart disease with garlic

Posted by kemston | Garlic | Wednesday 14 April 2010 12:51 pm

Garlic’s clot-reducing capability takes about three to four hours to peak and remains effective about a day, making garlic a reasonable substitute for taking aspirin to prevent clotting, provided your healthcare practitioner approves. In one study with 200 people who had heart attacks, garlic reduced the likelihood of another attack occurring in the next three years by two-thirds. Also, doctors used to think that once plaque developed in the arteries, it was there to stay, but new evidence, such as the results of a controlled, double-blind, placebo study at Humboldt University in Berlin, shows garlic and garlic-derived supplements can clean up existing plaque.

When researcher Dr. Arun Bordia was working in Udaipur, India, he noticed the near absence of heart disease despite the population’s habit of dousing their vegetables with butter. Bordia discovered that when research volunteers dined on butter, their cholesterol levels fell, providing they ate garlic along with it. Take away the garlic, and cholesterol levels jumped. High cholesterol levels are lowered by garlic an average ten percent. (more…)

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Stroke? Chew tomato seed

Posted by kemston | Tomato | Thursday 25 February 2010 11:51 am

Maybe up to this while cook, you favor discard seed tomato, since you insufficiently like its or cause you perceive disgust, particularly by slippery liquid one that espouse seed tomato. But, if you know its benefit, at terms next can so in recipes cuisine, you ever be espousing seed tomato.
 
One research that done by Rowett Research  Institute at  Aberdeen, Scots find benefit seed tomato to health.  As  one that quoted by magazine health Prevention, Asim K Dutta Roy, PhD,  researcher finds, liquid slippery or jelly chromatic yellow one that there be at around tomato seed, containing compound or efficacious mixture material to defy stroke and heart disease.

Research also get that if you drink juice tomato without discards its seed, therefore around 72% gratuity you have reduce its happening risk goring which can cause coronary.

Wow, the little seed that gets that mucus quite utilitarian..

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