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18.11.2008
High-Calorie Food Ruins Brains
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The overload of calories results critical areas of brains in failure condition even if the person does not collect excess weight. American scientists have found that excessively high-calorie food, which comes in our organism, causes activation of the molecule which promotes metabolic inflammation in other tissues.
This track usually is inactive in brains and presumably it was important for congenital immunity and protection of an organism against pathogenic viruses. But in today’s conditions with bad ecology the activation of the track breaks normal work of an organism, including the resistance of two main metabolic hormones — insulin and leptine, neurologists explain.
Researchers have found else, that products with the high maintenance of fats doubled activity of an inflammatory track in brains, damaging hippocampus, the neural communications and worsed the basic functions of the central nervous system. Physicians believe, that blocking of the found brain track will allow to develop therapy against adiposity.
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17.11.2008
10 Minutes for 45 Pieces of Pizza
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Jo Chesthoot, one of stars of League of Champions on Meal, has put the world record at competition on the eating of pizza spent on the Time Square in New York. 24 years old Californian has ate 45 pieces of pizza for 10 minutes. Chesthoot is already twice titled winner in this discipline, he before won in competition of hot dogs eating on Coney Island. According to League of Champions on Meal, competition on the eating is the most fast developed kind of sports by achievements.
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14.11.2008
The Most Harmful Diet
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The group of dieticians has decided to find out, food traditions of what countries are the unhealthiest for a person, in particular, for his cardiovascular system. For this purpose scientists examined more than 16 thousand people from 52 countries, including almost 6 thousand people who recently had a heart attack.
During the research scientists make three basic types of diet: east, mediterranean and western. East diet contains a plenty of seafoods and rice, but there is a lot of various spices; it is sharp enough on taste, there are a lot of fried dishes. Mediterranean diet contains seafoods, olive oil, a plenty of fresh vegetables and fruit. Western diet contains a plenty of meat, eggs, breads, canned food and animal fats.
According results of the research the western diet named the reason of third of all heart attacks, and it does not depend of what country the patient live in. The main reasons are the high maintenance of salt and animal fats in this diet. Salt in large amount raises pressure, and fats promote corking of blood vessels by cholesterol.
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13.11.2008
How to Stop Ageing
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The diet with only 10 percent of calories from fats, with low quantity of sugar, addition of fish oil in a diet and with fruit and vegetables is capable to stop ageing of an organism.
As the scientific analysis of California University has shown, such feed helps to increase levels of telomeraze enzyme which operates cellular ageing. Telomerazes restores and extends complexes of DNA fiber in the end of the chromosomes which directly mention age of cells. As the person grows old, their structural integrity weakens and cells start to die quickly, explain scientists.
Participants of experiment were offered to adhere formulated diet principles during three months. Physicians have noticed the increasing of telomeraze at 29 percent and the reduction of “bad” cholesterol. Cellular activities of telomeraze and ability to support the immune system also have increased. To achieve such results American doctors recommend reducing as much as possible levels of fats and sugar in food and on a regular basis there should be fruits, vegetables and fish.
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12.11.2008
Coffee Rescues Brains
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Scientists from South Korea, Germany and Japan in experiments on rats have shown that the smell of fried coffee grains leads to changes in work of those genes which help to lower consequences of stress because of dream deprivation.
During the experiment scientists have found four groups of rats. First was the control group, second was the group completely deprived of dream, third has smell coffee, but those rats were not limited in dream, and rats of the fourth group smelled coffee and have been deprived dream.
Researchers have established, that 17 genes “work” differently at those rats, which smelled coffee. Thus in the group which did not sleep, activity of 13 rats differed from the rats with “sleeplessness” and with the coffee smell. In particular, the coffee smell promoted allocation of the fibers possessing antioxidant properties which protect nervous cells from the damages connected with stress.
Authors mark, that many researches, devoted to influence of various coffee components on an organism were spent earlier. But “this research is the first step in studying the influence of coffee grains smell on stress caused by shortage of dream”, — speaks Khan-juice So from the Seoul National University.
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