Health Information Center – CedrikaProvencher

Perhaps you feel you’ve done all things well to prevent the arrival of the disease. Eat nutritious foods, exercise regularly, not smoking and reducing stress. But it turned out after the check to the doctor, your blood pressure high stated. It could be that because you live on the edge of a street full of noise.

Hypertension or high blood can result from many factors, ranging from the wrong diet, lifestyle is not healthy to stress. But the researchers found a new cause that may be underestimated by people with hypertension, which is noise. Those who have a house on the edge of the road was subject to risk of hypertension.

Researchers say that those who have a house by the road and often hear the horn, brakes screeching roar, or at risk of hypertension or high blood pressure greater than those who lived in the complex or housing. Read the rest of this entry »

So far people only know the benefits of green tea as an antioxidant alone. But researchers in Hong Kong found that green tea beneficial for bone, as the prevention and treatment of osteoporosis and other bone diseases.

This research was conducted by Dr. Ping Chung Leung and colleagues from the Institute of Chinese Medicine at Chinese University of Hong Kong, and has been published in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry last August.

Bone is not a dead tissue, but living in a dynamic metabolic system must be maintained balance between the process of bone formation and bone absorption. Cells that make bone function is called osteoblasts and cells that absorb bone function is called with the osteoclast.

In this study researchers grow cells and osteoblasts from mice studied catechins 3 chemicals for several days. The third substance is epigallocatechin (EGC), gallocatechin (GC) and gallocatechin gallate (GCG), which are all major components of green tea. Read the rest of this entry »

Everyone has their own way in order to feel better, especially for women who are sometimes the condition is strongly influenced by mood. But women have a few things that can make him feel better.

If women are not feeling too good, so much do to make her feel better like eating, shopping, a walk with friends or can also watch movies at home all day.

But there are some things that can make almost any woman feel better, as quoted from Health24, Thursday (24/9/2009), namely:

Stretch. Since childhood we’ve been taught a variety of gymnastic movements which are useful as stretch the muscles of the body. Stretch every morning can make women feel more energetic. Or after a day sitting in front of the computer, then stretch the hand movements and body is very useful. And combined with inhaled deeply. Read the rest of this entry »