Nourishing Foods For A Healthy Heart
Nutrition is one of the key, if not most important, areas to address in order to successfully manage high blood pressure, cholesterol and to maintain overall heart health. Here are some of the best whole foods that can improve these health metrics through a nourishing lifestyle.
Blood Pressure
It used to be thought that lowering sodium intake was the most important dietary change we could make to help improve blood pressure. However, we now know that there are a few other minerals that play a huge role in blood pressure control.
These minerals are calcium, magnesium and potassium, which help to lower blood pressure by pr...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - September 19, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Aesthetics at the International Dental Show (IDS) 2017: Ceramic innovations inspire
Precoloured veneering ceramics - infiltration method, staining techniques - economic production options for aesthetic restorations - a central theme of IDSPeople, who have beautiful eyes and lovely teeth, are beautiful. Because that is what the eye of the onlooker perceives first. The proportions have to be right and form a harmonious whole. As far as teeth are concerned, the dental industry has created a host of innovative methods and products over the past decades, which narrow the gap more and more between a high ideal and the achievable reality. These include modern diagnosis and therapy options (i.e. face scanners, ba...
Source: Dental Technology Blog - September 14, 2016 Category: Dentistry Source Type: news
Are drought-resistant crops in Africa the tech fix they're cracked up to be?
Biotech companies and non-profits are investing heavily in drought-resistant crops, but doubts remain over whether they are the best option for farmersThe rains are not what they once were in Kitui County. As climate change bites, the wet season is more erratic and drought has become an all-too-common phenomenon in this rural corner of eastern Kenya.This year, the community ’s produce of peas, sorghum and other staples failed to reach maturity because the rains arrived one month late, says Onesmus Mwangangi, an agricultural expert at the charityFarm Africa. “Farmers in this region have lost more than 80% of their crops...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - September 2, 2016 Category: Science Authors: Oliver Balch Tags: Guardian sustainable business Africa Environment Farming Genetics Global development Science Climate change Drought Water Source Type: news
A lock that cuts its own key
As a general rule, ligands bind to their cognate receptor noncovalently and induce a conformational change in the receptor that activates the receptor or enables it to interact with binding partners. Yao et al. and de Saint Germain et al. report that the α/β hydrolase DWARF14 (D14) is a strigolactone receptor, and this unusual receptor not only hydrolyzes its ligand but also forms a covalent attachment to the modified ligand. Strigolactones are carotenoid-derived plant hormones that regulate many developmental processes and trigger the germination of parasitic plants. One of the molecular processes triggered by ...
Source: Signal Transduction Knowledge Environment - August 29, 2016 Category: Science Authors: VanHook, A. M. Tags: STKE Editors ' Choice Source Type: news
Voodoo Medicine: Time To Stop
The world's most celebrated athlete standing on the podium in Rio in honor of receiving yet another gold medal has something important in common with your lazy uncle throwing back a cold one in his Barcalounger. Yes, swimming powerhouse Michael Phelps, purple-spotted from cupping therapy, and your slovenly relative with a beer gut both share a bond -- a weakness in succumbing to the allure of voodoo medicine. Modern-day snake oil salesmen hawking quick cures and TV doctors peddling the latest diet miracle with blatantly ridiculous claims are everywhere on the tube, social media, the supermarket and old-fashioned billboards...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - August 12, 2016 Category: Science Source Type: news
Emotional Compost - Unlocking Personal Potential Through Emotional Clean Up
Herein lies a singular challenge to unlocking our potential within. We must first uncover the individual hiding under all the demands of life and work. Everything accumulates. The childhood, the relationships and the hurts. The good and the bad. The complicated and the beautiful. It piles and piles. Tucks away and perseveres. Buries and moves on. Life moves forward whether ready or not. All of which stunts our personal potential. I love imagery and connection. I think about the personification of all this stuff. What would it look like if we could 3D print our emotions? Look. Examine. Hold. Then recycle when necessary. Sc...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - August 2, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Q: What eats 738,000 peas, spends 48 days in bed making love and fills up a whole bath with tears? A: YOU!
We pack a lot into our lives — which last, on average, 80 years for British men, and 84 years for British women. We also spend an awful lot of time doing some pretty boring stuff. And it all adds up. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - August 2, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Updated: Additional Package Codes Of Watts Brothers Farms Organic Mixed Vegetables, Organic Super Sweet Corn, and Organic Peas Recalled Because of Possible Health Risk
ConAgra Foods of Chicago, Illinois, is voluntarily recalling additional package codes of Watts Brothers Farms Organic Mixed Vegetables, Organic Super Sweet Corn (Yellow/Gold), and Organic Peas due to the potential for these products to be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes. (Source: Food and Drug Administration)
Source: Food and Drug Administration - July 29, 2016 Category: Food Science Source Type: news
Reinventing a Canadian Crop As a Sweet Summer Treat
Timber. Maple Syrup. When asked of Canadian exports, you'd be forgiven if pulses didn't also spring to mind. Yet Canadian farmers are one of the biggest producers of pulses, the edible seeds of the legume family, such as peas, chickpeas and beans. In 2014, exports were valued at over $3 billion, shipping to more than 150 countries around the world each year.
But why don't Canadians make more use of this key crop in our own country?
There are many reasons why we should. Obesity rates in Canada tripled between 1985 and 2011. Pulses offer a food source that is not only high in protein and fibre, but remarkably low in fat. F...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - July 25, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Tackling Obesity With a Secret Superfood Crop
Britain is waking up to its obesity issues. Currently in the UK, three in ten adults are overweight, and run a higher risk of developing diabetes, cancer and heart disease. To combat this, a string of initiatives have recently been launched by the UK government. A tax on sugary drinks and a review of fast-food advertising aimed at children are among the strategies being implemented and discussed.
But is enough being done to ensure more nutritious, convenient and affordable foods are on offer to consumers? How can we stop consumers reaching for that packet of crisps when hunger strikes? This is one of the questions the Glo...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - July 18, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Summer is the perfect time to fine tune your diet
It’s July, and the year 2016 is half over! If in January you promised yourself that you’d eat healthier, it’s not too late! In fact, summer is a great time to fine tune and upgrade your diet. The 2015-2020 Dietary Guidelines for Americans is a good roadmap.
Here’s how you can get started.
Establish a healthy eating pattern
Rather than focus on nutrients, percentages, or grams, let’s eat real, whole food.
Vegetables are the go-to food. Most are low in calories, high in fiber, and full of nutrients
Fruit, especially whole fruits, are also key players in eating healthfully. They are loaded with vitamins and mineral...
Source: New Harvard Health Information - July 14, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Katherine D. McManus, MS, RD Tags: Diet and Weight Loss Health Healthy Eating Source Type: news
We Might Be Able To Grow Edible Food In Martian Soil
In a dystopian future where we’ve depleted the shrinking resources of our home planet and a few lonely, intrepid survivors are trying to eke out an existence on Mars, at least the vegetables won’t kill us. Probably.
New research from scientists at Wageningen University in the Netherlands found that radishes, peas, tomatoes and rye grown in soil formulated to simulate the soil on Mars were safe to eat. The "Mars" dirt was enhanced with some organic matter from Earth that isn't present in soil from the red planet. The researchers have said previously that people colonizing Mars could theoretically bring smal...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - June 28, 2016 Category: Science Source Type: news
You can eat vegetables from Mars, say scientists after crop experiment
Dutch researchers successfully raise radishes, peas, rye and tomatoes in soil mixed to match that of the red planet – giving hope that settlers could grow foodCrops of four vegetables and cereals grown in soil similar to that on Mars have been found safe to eat by Dutch scientists.Radishes, peas, rye and tomatoes grown on dirt mixed on Earth to copy that of the red planet were found to contain “no dangerous levels” of heavy metals, said the team from Wageningen University in the Netherlands. Continue reading... (Source: Guardian Unlimited Science)
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - June 24, 2016 Category: Science Authors: Staff and agencies in The Hague Tags: Mars Space Science World news Source Type: news
Pinnacle Foods Inc. Voluntarily Recalls Limited Quantity of C&W Early Harvest Petite Peas and C&W Petite Peas Due to Possible Listeria Contamination
Pinnacle Foods Inc. is voluntarily recalling a limited number of C&W Early Harvest Petite Peas and C&W Petite Peas because they may contain Listeria monocytogenes. Listeria monocytogenes is an organism which can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people, and others with weakened immune systems. (Source: Food and Drug Administration)
Source: Food and Drug Administration - June 21, 2016 Category: Food Science Source Type: news
Another frozen veggies recall due to Listeria
The National Frozen Food Corp. issued a voluntary recall of frozen peas and mixed vegetables due to possible contamination of Listeria monocytogenes, commonly referred to as Listeria. (Source: WDSU.com - Health)
Source: WDSU.com - Health - June 21, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
