Protect Your Heart with Natural Vitamin A
Vitamin A is best known for helping you see better, especially at night.
But this often-overlooked nutrient has dozens of other health benefits. Your muscles, immune system, lungs, and kidneys all use it, and your liver stores it to use in an emergency.
And now scientists have discovered that vitamin A also activates a stockpile of previously unknown, heart-healing cells inside your pericardium, the fluid-filled sac that surrounds your heart.1,2
First, the researchers discovered that these special cells – a subtype of white blood cells called macrophages – helped heal the hearts of mice.
Then they discovered we have th...
Source: Al Sears, MD Natural Remedies - August 9, 2023 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Jacob Tags: Anti-Aging Health Source Type: news
AI By the People, For the People
In the shade of a coconut palm, Chandrika tilts her smartphone screen to avoid the sun’s glare. It is early morning in Alahalli village in the southern Indian state of Karnataka, but the heat and humidity are rising fast. As Chandrika scrolls, she clicks on several audio clips in succession,…#alahallivillage #karnataka #southindians #kannada #wikipedia #hindi #indians #kenya #philippines #jonasvalente (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - July 29, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Curry may have landed in Southeast Asia 2000 years ago
Even after 2000 years, the stone slab still smelled of nutmeg. Unearthed in an ancient village in southern Vietnam, the cookware—roughly the size and shape of an anvil—was likely used to grind the spice, along with other ingredients familiar in today’s curries. The discovery, reported today in
Science Advances
, marks
the earliest known example of spice processing in mainland Southeast Asia
. It also suggests that visitors from India and Indonesia may have introduced their culinary traditions to the region millennia ago.
“For decades, we have known of the strong Indian influence on Southea...
Source: ScienceNOW - July 21, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news
The Personal Chefs of Beyonc é, Lizzo and Linkin Park
Meet the Chefs Who Feed Beyoncé and Lizzo on Tour In Stockholm, it was the cookies — the black sesame, wasabi and white chocolate, or maybe the gluten-free coconut almond dark chocolate — that signaled to Beyoncé’s dancers, crew and roadies that Grant Bird was back. Mr. Bird is an English pastry…#stockholm #beyoncé #grantbird #renaissanceworldtour #vanhalen #grayrollin #linkinparks #toriamos #linkinpark #mars (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - July 18, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
The Personal Chefs of Beyonc é, Lizzo and Linkin Park
Today’s artists, like Beyoncé, Paul McCartney and Lizzo, travel with an elaborate entourage of culinary professionals making increasingly mindful meals. In Stockholm, it was the cookies — the black sesame, wasabi and white chocolate, or maybe the gluten-free coconut almond dark chocolate — that…#beyoncé #paulmccartney #stockholm #grantbird #renaissanceworldtour #vanhalen #grayrollin #linkinparks #toriamos #linkinpark (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - July 17, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Cardioprotective role of the coenzyme Q10 and coconut oil in acute aluminum phosphide poisoning: a randomized controlled clinical trial - Elsharkawy RE, Ghonem MM, El-Sarnagawy GN, Nagy AA, Heshmat MM.
Aluminum phosphide (ALP)-induced cardiotoxicity is a major cause of high mortality rates. As there is no specific antidote, restoring cardiac hemodynamics is the cornerstone for saving patients. Based on oxidative stress theory in acute ALP poisoning, we e... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - July 7, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news
Coconut Software BrandVoice: 5 Metrics Every Branch Operations Leader Needs To Track, According To An Industry Pro
Take a read through virtually any 2023 trend report, and you’ll spot operational efficiency as one of the top priorities for today’s financial institutions (FIs). Banks and credit unions that run like well-oiled machines are rewarded with not only reduced operating costs but also higher…#aaronyoung #branchoperations #cusocal #loyaltygroup #mlg #cusocals (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - June 26, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Plant burgers are way better for the planet than beef, but these 2 ingredients threaten tropical ecosystems
A farmer arranges his coconuts in Poi Village, Sigi Regency, Central Sulawesi, Indonesia, in January 2020. Coconut farmers in the region have struggled with the declining price of copra, the dried flesh of coconut from which coconut oil is extracted. | Basri Marzuki/NurPhoto via Getty Images How…#poivillage #sigiregency #centralsulawesi #indonesia #basrimarzuki #nurphoto #cacao #jalil #palopo #sulawesi (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - June 7, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Coconut water quenching investors ’ thirst for gains
Maroon 5 for a sweet sixteen? Can do. But you may be paying seven figures.#maroon5 (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - June 6, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Coconut or almond-scented soaps 'can make you unattractive to disease-carrying insects'
US researchers found insects were drawn to people who used floral scented Dove or Simple Truth soap, but were unnerved by the coconut-smelling brand, Native. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - May 16, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Presentation, management, and outcomes of traumatic spinal injuries following coconut tree fall in Tanzania: a retrospective study of 44 cases - Waterkeyn F, Ikwuegbuenyi CA, Sommer F, Shayo C, Shabani HK, Hartl R.
This study investigates the characteristics of traumatic spinal injuries (TS... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - March 28, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news
DR PHILIPPA KAYE reveals everything that can go wrong with your breasts (that isn't cancer)
DR PHILIPPA KAYE: Boobs. Baps, bosoms, jugs… norks. Coconuts, melons, puppies, the twins, the girls. Waps, tatas, cha-chas, knockers, honkers, bongos, bazookas. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - March 18, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
HelloFresh to stop buying coconut milk from Thailand amid claims of monkey labor
HelloFresh, the meal kit company, made the decision after an advocacy group’s report said some monkeys in Thailand are forced to climb trees and pick the fruit.#thailand (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - March 17, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Coconuts are becoming an important part of protecting global shorelines
Coconuts are increasingly being used around the world as part of efforts to keep shorelines from eroding. Strands of coconut husk, known as coir, can be spun into mats or logs that are flexible and able to be molded on uneven areas of shoreline. As The Associated Press explains, the coir…#neptune #newjersey #superstormsandy #timdillingham #boston #juliahopkins (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - March 13, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Oil from coconuts that could lower your risk for dementia - boosts brain energy by 9%
One study found that consumption of the oil either improved or stabilised brain function among 80 percent of participants with Alzheimer's disease. (Source: Daily Express - Health)
Source: Daily Express - Health - February 25, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
