Monthly Archives: July 2016

Selenium and Depression

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Do High Fruit Diets Make You Live Longer

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Vitamin C Protects from Nitrosamines

Nitrosamines are a group of chemicals that can be ingested from food, or are formed from other chemicals in the gut. Nitrosamines are formed by the reaction of a secondary or tertiary amine with a nitrosating agent, which in foods … Continue reading

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Does High Blood Lactate Cause Anxiety?

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Flavonoid Intake Associated with Health

Flavonoids are a group of polyphenolic phytonutrients that are widespread amongst the plant kingdom. The flavonoid class is made up of a number of subclasses including flavones, flavanones, flavan-3-ols, anthocyanins, proanthocyanidins and flavonols. Flavonoids are responsible for many of the … Continue reading

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Salt Substitutes Lower Blood Pressure: In Salt Sensitive Individual

Many experts still claim that high salt diets cause blood pressure increases. However this viewpoint is disingenuous, and the contention that sodium chloride is the cause of high blood pressure is either deliberately propagandised or misguidedly believed. Animal and human … Continue reading

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The Homeostasis of Weight Control

The traditional model of body weight loss considers the only two factors relevant to weight loss to be energy consumed and exercise performed. In this model, energy balance is an equilibrium between these factors. Part of this assumption considers energy … Continue reading

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Fibre May Protect From Stroke

Fibre is considered by many to be an essential dietary component. When starch is present in the diet, the absence of dietary fibre has been shown to cause detrimental glycaemic effects, and these effects in turn may cause insulin resistance. … Continue reading

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Do Grasses Protect From Environmental Toxins?

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Whey Protein Isolate or Whey Protein Concentrate?

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