Women say they ’ve never looked more youthful after a diet of only FRUIT
They only drink juice, eat bananas for dinner and sacrifice relationships for their diet. And despite experts warning they ’re ruining their health, these women say they’ve never looked more youthful. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - November 24, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Do We Need to Use (and Discard) So Many Plastic Bags Each Year?
Meg Scharf UCF Forum columnist Much of the time I hate plastic bags. Although they can be useful, they also can be a messy nuisance and an ecological nightmare. Plastic bags can keep things dry if you walk through the rain and they do a nice job of carrying groceries home from the store or toting garbage and lawn clippings to the curb. If not recycled, however, they can become a big mess. After a single use, many end up in a landfill or on the side of the road, blown by the wind into some weeds. They look awful. Sometimes plastic bags are discarded in a park or public place or on a beach, a blight on our view of natur...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - November 23, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Health Tip: Be Healthier for the Holidays
-- The holiday season is filled with food, but many holiday favorites aren ' t exactly healthy. The United States Department of Agriculture suggests: Make your holiday recipes healthier. When baking, opt for unsweetened applesauce or bananas instead... (Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews)
Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews - November 14, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Source Type: news

How To Boost Melatonin Naturally
Most people know melatonin as the sleep hormone. And that’s right. It helps your body cycle down every night so you can rest. But melatonin is so much more than that… It’s also one of your body’s most powerful cancer killers. Studies show melatonin boosts the immune system. It protects against the toxic side effects of chemo and radiation. It improves wound healing after surgery. And it even increases cancer survival rates.1 And new research proves that melatonin suppresses the growth of breast cancer tumors. How does melatonin affect breast cancer? Mammograms detect cancer. In a lab at Michigan St...
Source: Al Sears, MD Natural Remedies - November 10, 2016 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Al Sears Tags: Health Women's Health Source Type: news

Hips, haws and drupes: when is a nut not a nut?
It ’s the season of mists and mellow fruitfulness - not to mention chestnuts roasting on an open fire. But many of the “nuts” we eat are nothing of the sortAny self-respecting pub quiz bore will tell you a peanut is a legume, a relative of the pea. If they are on top of their game, they will take pride in their certain knowledge that pineapples are, in fact, coalesced berries; there ’ll be discussion of bananas no doubt. But, what of hips and haws? What about drupes? And, perhaps of more seasonal importance: what makes a “true nut”, in the strictest biological definition?Continue reading... (Source: Guardian Unlimited Science)
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - November 10, 2016 Category: Science Authors: Richard Aspinall Tags: Biology Science Plants Environment Source Type: news

What numbers on fruit stickers on bananas and apples REALLY mean
The codes on your fruit stickers tell you exactly how your piece of fruit has been grown - whether it's conventional, organic, or genetically modified (GM). So how has your apple or banana been grown? (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - October 31, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Cholesterol: The Myth of Heart Disease
The next time your doctor says you need to lower your LDL cholesterol so you don’t have a heart attack or stroke, show him the results of the Northern Manhattan Study. The researchers that conducted the study found that higher LDL cholesterol was linked to LOWER stroke risk.1 And another study published this year reviewed research on nearly 70,000 people. The authors of that study found NO LINK between LDL cholesterol and premature deaths in people over 60 from heart disease.2 LDL Isn’t “Bad” Cholesterol This backs up what I’ve been saying for two decades! LDL isn’t “bad” cho...
Source: Al Sears, MD Natural Remedies - October 28, 2016 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Dr. Al Sears Tags: Anti-Aging Heart Health Source Type: news

The banana as we know it is in imminent danger
A genetic clone, the Cavendish banana that stocks supermarket shelves could easily be wiped out by disease. Science offers hope of a sustainable approachThe banana is the world ’s most popular fruit crop, with over 100m metric tons produced annually in over 130 tropical and subtropical countries. Edible bananas are the result of a genetic accident in nature that created the seedless fruit we enjoy today. Virtually all the bananas sold across the western world belong to t heso-called Cavendish subgroup of the species and are genetically nearly identical. These bananas are sterile and dependent on propagation via cloning, ...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - October 25, 2016 Category: Science Authors: Ioannis Stergiopoulos, Andr é Drenth and Gert Kema Tags: Farming Food Environment US news World news Science Plants Genetics Source Type: news

Why Knowing Your Triglyceride Number Matters
Many of us can rattle off our latest cholesterol number at the drop of a hat. Keeping an eye on your cholesterol is important but there's another number you also should have memorized - your triglycerides. However, if asked about our triglyceride number, most of us have little to know idea what it is. That's too bad because our triglyceride number reveals quite a bit of how healthy we are or not. The good news is there are many steps we can take to get it in a healthier range starting today. What are triglycerides? Triglycerides (TG) are the most common type of fat in the body and are an important measure of heart health...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - October 17, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

5 Easy Diet Tricks Can Better Your Sex Life
Conclusion No matter if you suffer from erectile dysfunction, premature ejaculation, a low sex drive or if you just want to spice things up in the bedroom, there are dietary interventions that could help you. Eating healthy was found in a great number of studies to improve a person's overall health, and this inevitably shows on sexual functioning as well. But certain foods can also boost your libido by working as aphrodisiacs. On the other hand, certain foods seem to have an adverse effect on sexual functioning and if you don't want to ruin your sex life, then make sure to avoid these foods. -- This feed and its contents a...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - October 17, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Do Humans Need Meat?
Environmentalists encourage us to cut down on meat consumption in favor of vegetable foods that are less damaging to the environment. Given that our ancestors likely had plenty of meat in their diet, is going meatless a good idea? The History of Eating Meat Our chimpanzee-like ancestors were mostly vegetarian, judging from the diet of modern chimpanzees that subsist mainly on fruit, leaves, and nuts, with a rare morsel of hunted meat. After they left forests in favor of open grasslands, hominids likely increased the proportion of meat in their diet given that they would have encountered large herds of game animals. Init...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - October 14, 2016 Category: Science Source Type: news

Making the most of Africa's biowaste
Cassava peel, sugar cane vinasse and overripe bananas - residues such as these may be known as biowaste, but that doesn't mean they're necessarily wasted. An EU-funded project identified sources and current uses of such materials in five African countries and proposed quick, simple ways of processing them into products with higher added value. (Source: EUROPA - Research Information Centre)
Source: EUROPA - Research Information Centre - October 12, 2016 Category: Research Source Type: news

South Africa: Health Distances Itself From Statement Circulating About Bananas
[SA Govt] It has come to the attention of the National Department of Health since yesterday afternoon, that there is a statement circulating on social media, in particular WhatsApp, attributed to the Ministry of Health, supposedly advising the South African citizens 'not to buy or eat from supermarkets in Durban, Johannesburg and Pretoria'. The statement is untrue, malicious, and diabolic. It is designed to cause unnecessary panic to the public. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - October 6, 2016 Category: African Health Source Type: news

'Painful erection' spiders found in family's fruit
A family home is fumigated due to an infestation of "deadly spiders" that arrived in a bunch of shop-bought bananas. (Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition)
Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition - September 26, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news