Archive for 'antioxidants'
Dark Roasting Coffee Beans Can Optimize Its Antioxidant Content
// Drinking too much coffee can be harmful to your health. This can result to insomnia, heart palpitations and anxiety. But the moderate intake of coffee can offer some preventive health benefits. Studies have found that drinking a few cups of coffee in a day can reduce the risk of certain cancer and even dementia. [...]
Posted: March 1st, 2011 under antioxidants, Coffee.
Tags: health benefits of coffee; antioxidants in coffee; coffee to prevent dementia
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A Taste of Green Tea: A Taste of Better Health
Widely-believed to have originated from China, green tea has remained as one of the undisputable tea favourites. In the past, a notable pervasive belief regarding the well-loved beverage was that its health benefits are practically felt by those who drink it. However, these “benefits” were hardly substantiated by scientific evidence. Over the years, green tea [...]
Posted: September 11th, 2010 under antioxidants, Green Tea.
Tags: green tea reduces DNA damage, health benefits of green tea, recent studies on green tea
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Acai Supplies Yogurt with Greater Nutrient Density
Study: Probiotics, Fat Content Improved in Yogurt after Adding Acai Berry The acai berry—billed as the superfood of superfoods—is highly touted for its ability to bring amazing results to the human body, like lowering cholesterol and enhancing energy. But according to new research from the International Dairy Journal, the acai berry benefits it’s own kind [...]
Posted: February 21st, 2010 under antioxidants.
Tags: acai health benefits, acai scam, acai superfood
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Antioxidants Cancel Out Cancer
Study Shows Antioxidants Inhibit Polyp Growth in Colon The array of benefits antioxidants provide continue to grow, much to the chagrin of skeptical “scientists” who believe antioxidants are bunkum and don’t provide any material health benefit. Well I wonder what they’ll think of the latest study that finds antioxidants improve colon health. Not much, I’m [...]
Posted: December 13th, 2009 under antioxidants, Colitis.
Tags: antioxidant benefits, Colon cancer, ulcerative colitis, ulcerative colitis diet, ulcerative colitis treatment
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Sweet Relief
Dark Chocolate Helps Relieve Stress Levels Comfort foods are the oases people turn to for stress relief. This is OK every once in a while, but not regularly, because comfort foods are more often than not nutritional lightweights. But that generalization doesn’t apply to chocolate, in particular dark chocolate. Dark chocolate can—in fact, should—be eaten [...]
Posted: November 15th, 2009 under antioxidants, chocolate, Stress.
Tags: Dark chocolate health, dark chocolate health benefits, health benefits of dark chocolate
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Liking Lycopene
Researchers Say Lycopene Stimulates Greater Blood Flow Every rule has its exceptions. For example, nine times out of 10, I’d recommend your eating vegetables raw rather than cooked. That’s because cooked vegetables lack the nutritional might that raw vegetables do, as the heating process knocks out a fair amount of fiber and a vast amount [...]
Posted: August 16th, 2009 under antioxidants, Atherosclerosis.
Tags: cooked tomatoes, improve blood flow, lycopene, tomatoe sauce, tomatoes
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Great Com’bone’ation
Study: Together, Antioxidants and Exercise Fight Osteoporosis When it comes to bone health, we typically think of two nutrients that are particularly bone-friendly: calcium and vitamin D. But the results of a new study should cause the mind to think of a new bone-building bloc: antioxidants and exercise. A recent report from a Canadian university [...]
Posted: June 24th, 2009 under antioxidants, Exercise.
Tags: osteoporosis, osteoporosis exercise, osteoporosis women, prevent osteoporosis
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Anti Antioxidant
German Study Pooh-Poohs Antioxidant Benefits There’s no news like bad news, and once again, the media have illustrated this axiomatic truth. For years, I and others in the natural health world have written about the array of benefits antioxidants provide the body. How antioxidants neutralize free radicals, how they diminish the risk of an assortment [...]
Posted: May 13th, 2009 under antioxidants, Exercise.
Tags: antioxidants, Exercise, Vitamin C, Vitamin E
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Antioxidant Rich Foods Improve Immune Function and Increase Lifespan, Study Shows
Researchers at the Complutense University of Madrid and Danone Vitapole conducted a study on mice, which indicates that foods rich in antioxidants improve immune function and increase lifespan. These results may be applicable to humans as well. Â The study, which was published in the journal Nutrition, involved two groups of both non-prematurely aging mice [...]
Posted: May 7th, 2007 under antioxidants.
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Natural Antioxidant Slows Oxidation of Frying Oils, Study Suggests
New research published in the January issue of the International Journal of Food Science and Technology from Cairo University suggests that by reducing the production of peroxides in frying oil and thereby slowing the oxidation of the oil and making it healthier to consume, the juice of olive leaves could make an effective antioxidant to help [...]
Posted: April 3rd, 2007 under antioxidants.
Comments: 1