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Stroke prevention: more tomatoes!

The high content of the antioxidant lycopene in the blood reduces the risk of stroke by more than 2 times. Especially a lot of lycopene is contained in tomatoes.

12.10.2012
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The antioxidant will find a hole

Researchers from Kingston University in London have shown that most of the products attributed to antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties do not have a systemic effect on the body.

11.10.2012
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Food and other drugs

Internet addiction is increasingly being added to the most common addictions recognized as mental disorders – from gambling, alcohol, food, computers, smoking and drugs.

08.10.2012
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How to live to be a hundred years old

Most Americans ignore the doctors' recommendations given here. Personally, you can also ignore them, but don't blame me if anything...

05.10.2012
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Feed the sick!

Three quarters of patients who are in the most severe conditions and who require an increased amount of energy to restore strength and fight the disease, experience a protein-energy deficit.

02.10.2012
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The nocebo effect

While the placebo effect, in which a patient's positive expectations can have a therapeutic effect, is relatively well known and studied, the nocebo effect is its little-known bad twin brother.

26.09.2012
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Workaholism is a dangerous disease

Workaholics have a significantly increased risk of heart disease, stroke, early senile dementia, guaranteed problems in the family. And chronic fatigue increases the risk of professional mistakes.

24.09.2012
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Health and education: egg or chicken?

Whatever the root cause, everyone recognizes the existence of an obvious link between the level of education, material well-being, mortality rate and the state of health of people.

24.09.2012
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Russian men do not value their health

For many men, the topic of a healthy lifestyle is just an excuse for humor. How to make them take care of their health and live no less than women?

21.09.2012
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Sewage and the reproductive system

The impact on the ecosystem of synthetic chemical compounds that disrupt the endocrine system of animals and humans may be no less significant than climate change.

20.09.2012
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Wine is healthier than vodka: tested on pigs

Scientists have concluded that red wine has the greatest positive effect on the heart of pigs with elevated cholesterol levels and its mechanism of action differs from the mechanism of action of vodka.

12.09.2012
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Placebo and nocebo work in the subcortex

Placebo and nocebo effects may occur not as a result of (self-) suggestion, but at an unconscious level, even before information enters the cerebral cortex.

11.09.2012
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Is thickness a guarantee of health?

The results of two studies on obesity have confirmed the long–known "obesity paradox" - half of fat people have a completely normal state of health, and fat people are less likely to die from heart disease than thin people.

07.09.2012
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Rheumatoid arthritis on a global scale

By 2015, the number of patients with rheumatoid arthritis will increase by 75% compared to 2005. And this is despite the fact that 21 million people have already been diagnosed with this disease in the world.

04.09.2012
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Have you become weak-eyed in your old age?

In addition to hyperopia, there are 4 serious eye diseases, the occurrence of which is often associated with aging of the body – cataract, glaucoma, age-related macular degeneration and diabetic retinopathy.

31.08.2012