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Carrots help boost vision
Antioxidants found in fruit and vegetables such as carrots can help slow down sight loss in older adults, say scientists.
In a five-year study, scientists in Belfast and Waterford showed that the intake of high levels of both carotenoids, rich antioxidants found in fruit and vegetables, preserved macular pigments, slowing down the progression from early to late age-related macular degeneration (AMD).
AMD is an incurable eye disease which causes blurring of central vision because of its effects on the macula, the cen...more
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Flower helps treat prostate cancer
A substance from the root of a flower may help treat prostate cancer, according to Germany's cancer-science council.
Experts at the University of Goettingen said that in laboratory tests, tectorigenin, obtained from roots of Belamcanda chinensis, stopped cancer cells growing and in animal tests it had slowed the spread of the cancer.
The lily-like flowers of Belamcanda chinensis are grown in temperate-region gardens as a perennial. In China, it grows wild.
The plant is used in Korean and Chinese medicine, rep...more
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Vaccinating kids controls swine flu
A new research has suggested that targeting children for vaccination could help control the spread of pandemics such as the current swine flu.
The study suggests that targeting kids is the best way of using limited supplies of the vaccine currently being developed.
Ever since the World Health Organization declared a pandemic global H1N1 swine flu, countries are looking at ways to control the spread of the disease.
These measures include the use of antiviral treatments, such as oseltamivir, social distancing (...more
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Yoga, meditation to beat recession
With pink slips, job loss and salary cuts becoming the order of the day, it seems recession is taking a toll on almost everyone’s personal and professional life. The situation gets worse from bad when professionals find it tough to deal with the stress creeping at work front, thus ending up spoiling their health and losing out their mental balance. While, recession stress is no less a mental trauma, yet there are ways to deal with it in a healthy way. Recession stress is all in the mind, which eventually gets reflected i...more
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