Nutrition
Study touts kiwifruit’s benefits
Kiwifruit is rich in antioxidants and has other health benefits, according to a recent study. In addition to being a good source of antioxidants, kiwifruit provides benefits to the digestive tract and to skin, concludes a study commissioned by California kiwifruit growers and other kiwifruit growers and organizations, according to a news release from the [...]
New Research Links Concord Grape Juice to Healthy Circulation & Possible Memory Benefits
Two new scientific papers recently published in Nutrition Today and the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry suggest that Concord grapes may support healthy circulation to promote cardiovascular and cognitive health in certain populations. These reports add to the growing body of evidence for the role of Concord grapes and grape juice in healthy lifestyles. [...]
Potential Health Benefits of two dietary antioxidants
Potential Health Benefits of two dietary antioxidants, Glutathione and N-Acetylcysteine, Among Adults with CVD Risk We are now enrolling participants for this 8-week study. The most likely candidates for this study are people who are either overweight, have elevated triglycerides, low HDL cholesterol, or pre-hypertension but are not currently taking cholesterol-lowering or anti-hypertensive medications. Enrolled [...]
Eating Citrus Fruit May Lower Women’s Stroke Risk
A compound in citrus fruits may reduce your stroke risk, according to research reported in Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association. Eating higher amounts of a compound in citrus fruits, especially oranges and grapefruit, may lower ischemic stroke risk. Women who ate high amounts of the compound had a 19 percent lower risk of ischemic [...]
Study Finds Eating Nuts Helps Cholesterol
Eating about two and a half airplane snacks’ worth of nuts every day helps lower total cholesterol and “bad” LDL cholesterol, and improves the ratio of total cholesterol to “good” HDL cholesterol, a study reports. Researchers pooled the results of 25 clinical trials that involved 583 participants over all. The study reported that eating just 2.4 ounces of nuts of [...]
Effects of Raw Milk vs. Pasteurized Milk
Effects of Raw Milk vs. Pasteurized Milk on Lactose Maldigestion and Symptoms of Lactose Intolerance Among Lactose Intolerant Adults. Background: An increasing number of Americans are choosing to consume raw, unpasteurized milk rather than conventional pasteurized milk. Several health claims are made by raw milk enthusiasts. Many or most of those claims are anecdotal and remain [...]
How to Maximize Weight Loss with hCG
While the average user loses 1-2 pounds of fat per day during the hCG diet, there are certain tactics that can be used to speed up results and amplify weight loss. HCGBlog.com has combined the most effective strategies based on years of visitor feedback to create a guide to help users augment their overall results using the [...]
Raspberry Ketone Supplement Shown To Have Antiobesity Effect
Although published for many years the NLM National Institutes of Health study on the RK compound did not become popular until just recently when a popular daytime television Doctor exposed the RK compound for its weight loss properties. The study, “Raspberry ketone increases both lipolysis and fatty acid oxidation in 3T3-L1 adipocytes”, found herehttp://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20425690showed that [...]
Study Finds Regular Consumption of Berries Slows Memory Decline
A recent study has found that people who include berries in their weekly diets show reduced rates of memory decline. Conducted by researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School and the first long-term, large-scale epidemiological study of its kind, the research discovered that consuming as little as one serving of blueberries per [...]
Dark chocolate cuts heart deaths
Australian researchers have found that eating a block of dark chocolate daily over 10 years has “significant” benefits for high-risk cardiac patients and could prevent heart attacks and strokes. A study of 2,013 Australians conducted at Melbourne’s Monash University found that the consumption of 3.5 ounces of chocolate with a 70 percent or higher cocoa [...]
