British scientists have found out, that the frequent use of soya products in advanced age, for example tofu, can worsen memory. On the basis of the received data they recommend to lower consumption of these products after 60 years.

Researchers from Universities of Loughborough and Oxford have compared food habits of 719 inhabitants of Java Island of the age from 52 till 98 years with results of their tests at memory. It has appeared, that at those who uses tofu more than once a day, memory functions in average on 20 % worse, than at other participants of the research.

This work lead under direction of professor Ejf Khogervorst, has served as an occasion for change of recommendations on the use of tofu and other soya products popular in vegetarians and adherents of healthy feed. It was considered, that the soya is rather useful because of the high maintenance of biologically active isoflavons. However, except of isoflavons, the soya is rich with phytoestrogens hormones which reduce memory and raise the risk of dementia in advanced age. The mechanism of such action is not found out yet.

Not last role in increasing of quantity of people with excess weight play standard portions of meal in supermarkets and cafes.

According to the research lead in the Great Britain, since 1990 the sizes of many cakes, mousses, single portions of chips and meat dishes have increased almost twice. For example, the portion of lasagna has increased from 250 g up to 320-500 g. Chocolate mousse has grown from 60 g up to 150 g. White loaf is cut into 40 g slices, instead of 30 g, as 18 years ago. The increasing of portions of high-calorific food within last 20 years coincides with «epidemic of adiposity», overflowed the Europe. It is follows to blame not only manufacturers, but also buyers. “Family” portions of sweets and chips, calculated on several persons, are often consumed in loneliness. At purchase of ready meal it is necessary to remember, that the refuse from superfluous quantity of calories can prevent more than 3000 death a year.

Scientists have found out, that, one of the most useful to health juices is cherry juice. It contains the highest among fruit level of antioxidants struggling with illnesses.

Cherry juice also contains other important nutrients, as beta carotene (19 times more than in bilberry or wild strawberry), fiber, iron, magnesium, potassium and vitamins C and E. It will help to reduce arthritis and gout pain, reduces risk factors of heart illness, diabetes and occurrence of some cancer formations. Cherries also prevent loss of memory and slow down ageing process.

For $ 179 you can recreate a tiny landscape on your dining table. There is a price of an unusual subject of kitchen utensils — the so-called topographical bowl created by Japanese designer Kouiti Okamoto. By its name the ceramic soup (or salad) bowl owes to precise contours and form, which realistically reminding hills.

The designer suggests to take meal with imagination and to be able “to play” with rituals of food reception. Okamoto approves, that if to fill the bowl with salad before having dinner the natural landscape of a green valley or a wood will be developed and if to fill it with soup — the Alpine lake. The miracle bowl should become an excellent gift to the former seafarers or, most likely, to eccentric collectors.

The use of coffee or tea will help men who smoke to reduce risk of the intimate impact caused by blocking of blood circulation. These drinks possess the strong antioxidizing properties preventing negative effects of smoking. Doctors from Caroline Institute (Sweden) have found out, that coffee and tea also protect brain from a hemorrhage, strengthenings of arteries and atherosclerosis.

The Research proceeded within 13 years, included 26 thousand 556 adult men from Finland which were chronic smokers. Having considered age and other risk factors for intimate impact, physicians have noticed, that men who drank 8 or more cups of coffee daily, reduced risk of intimate dysfunction and a brain heart attack at 23 %, and those who drank two or more cups of tea, had decrease the risk at 21 %. Favorable influences of coffee and tea consumption in lots biologically speak by the maintenance of fenolitic structures in them, which are capable to block the inflammatory processes connected with smoking.