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26.09.2008
Cocoa Can Prevent Senile Dementia
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Cocoa flavones increase a blood-groove to a brain and thus can prevent senile dementia, cognitive infringements and impact. Physicians have studied action of cocoa structures on cognitive skills of older persons of 59-83 years. Regular consumption of the chocolate drink within a week raised brain blood circulation on 8 %. If to drink cocoa the long period, it is possible to slow down age cognitive deterioration and to protect a brain from dementia, and also to improve work of vessels of all body, neurologists speak.
Cocoa flavones possess positive properties on circulating function of blood and blood system of vessels, providing protection not only against cardiovascular complications, but also against cognitive problems and skin illnesses, the American doctors approve. According to therapists from the Harvard University, the biomedical potential of cocoa consists not only in its antioxidizing force, but also in ability to strengthen blood circulation to bodies.
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25.09.2008
In Kenya Women Eat Stones
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Thousand of Kenyan women supplement the diet with stones. Stones lay in supermarkets of Nairobi between spices and soups. They are packaged in 100–500 gram plastic packages. The reason is the value of stones, as source of iron. Besides they suit for vegetarians.
The occasion to their use became constantly growing need for iron, calcium and other minerals. Doctors speak already about illness by name Peak: stones already are eat as a drug. Basically it concerns women. They begin to eat them during pregnancy, trying to replace the missing of minerals with them. Stones are crushed and then they can be chewed, as they get a crumbled consistence.
«It is an unequivocal attribute of iron lack», speaks Vilfred Kizingu, the dietician of the Kenya Medical Scientific Research Institute. «However, consumption of stones is dangerously and unhealthy». Stones conduct not only to blocking a blind gut, but also can cause destruction of gastric walls. Also, as consequences can be a condensation of blood and the raised blood pressure. But to stop their use frequently, happens already too difficultly. The stone food becomes something like a drug serving by similarity soothing.
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24.09.2008
Culinary Formation in English Schools
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All 11-years English schoolboys and girls will receive the culinary book as a gift. It is a part of the started national program of struggle against excess weight. It is necessary to search the reasons of unhealthy habits and the inabilities to prepare healthy food in the childhood. Education of correct habits, first of all, is a family problem; however, the school can play an essential role in it.
By 2011 in the Great Britain it is planned to organize classes equipped for culinary employment. Lessons of culinary art become obligatory for pupils of 11-14 years. Organizers of the program consider, that by means of culinary book gift and then culinary employment at school children will receive bases of feed culture, they will learn to prepare useful dishes from base components.
The culinary book joined recipes which according to poll, have been named obligatory for mastering by small cooks. For example, soup from tomatoes with spices, meat soup with the vegetables, the baked chicken, vegetarian lasagna, paella, cabbage salad, fruit pie.
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23.09.2008
Easy Sensation of Famine Makes Us Happy
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Easy sensation of famine makes a person happy. Scientists approve, that the grelin hormone, responsible for feeling of famine, adjusts the level of adrenaline (hormone of stress) in blood. When we are hungry, the level of grelin raises, and most likely it acts in a role of an energizer.
Scientists have made experiments on mice. It was found out, that mice with the lowered level of the grlein hormone are in a dejectedness and when they were threwed in water they did not try to float at all. Rodents did not reach an output from a labyrinth and stand aside from other mice placed in the same cell.
But the mouse with the raised level of grelin actively floated in water, with pleasure investigated new surrounding conditions and tried to dialogue with other mice, have informed scientists. Results of research have been published in the magazine “Nature Neuroscience”.
Scientists have assumpted that positive reactions to sensation of famine are the protective reaction of the mammal organism which should in struggle and work to get livelihood, and now it is simply enough to open a refrigerator.
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22.09.2008
Dairy and Cereal Products Help Children to Recover from Autism
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The raised consumption of dairy and cereal products can become rescue for small patients with the diagnosis of autism. Doctors of Texas University believe that gluten — the protein containing in wheat, rye, oats and barley, — and peptides of milk are capable to affect positively the brain work of children with an autism.
A lot of children with autism have gastroenteric problems, type of a lock and a diarrhea. It is remains the open question whether these problems are connected with brain development, however, according to physicians, mediators and neuroreceptors in intestines corresponds to what are in brains. Neurologists have assumed that owing to the correct diet, it is probably to work on decrease of this disease among children of 3-9 years. Experts have defined, that gluten, some peptides in wheat and whey in milk prevent destruction of nervous cells and influence positively behavioral norms of the child, helping to stabilize mimicry, gestures and speech intonation.
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