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Eating Grapes for Better Living
Brain Health:
* The resveratrol in grapes has been associated with better brain health and is believed to protect against acute and chronic neurological diseases.
* It was shown in animals to exert protection against brain damage caused by a neurotoxin.
* Resveratrol belongs to a family of compounds that inhibit the formation of tiny structures around nerves or fibers, indicative of Alzheimer’s disease and other degenerative nerve diseases.
* The Parkinson, the areas around the nerves are enriched with iron in an abnormal way, making them more susceptible to oxidative damage. In one study, resveratrol and other antioxidants protected nerve cells similar to those of Parkinson against oxidation by iron.
Heart Health:
* The antioxidants of grapes have been shown to reduce susceptibility to oxidation of lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C by its acronym in English). It is believed that oxidized LDL plays a critical role in the early stages of the atherosclerotic process. Read the rest of this entry »
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Physical Urticaria
Urticaria is the appearance of skin lesions with erythema (redness), formation of hives (elevated pale skin), and itching that can occur locally or widely throughout the body. Causal factor whose hives are the physical stimuli, heat, cold, scratching, pressure, etc … are the group that is called physical urticaria. Constitute the majority of known cause chronic hives.
Special Features
1. Are clinically measurable or quantifiable, because the stimuli that cause so are to play in the diagnosis.
2. They tend to be immediate (onset in minutes) and short (after an hour tend to disappear). As an exception we delayed pressure urticaria.
3. In the majority of cases are located at the site of stimulation.
4. They tend to be reproducible challenge test clinically well defined, which makes diagnosis and control. Physical Urticaria
5. They usually affect young adults, with a preference for females.
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Facts About Cholesterol (Part 2)
Fact # 4: Physical exercise will lower cholesterol levels.
An increase in body weight tends to increase blood cholesterol, blood pressure, and in general the risk of adverse effects on heart health. In addition to maintaining body weight in balance, physical activity can help lower blood pressure and increase the health and general welfare.
Things can change to lower cholesterol:
• Maintain a healthy weight (a weight gain tends to increase cholesterol levels)
• Make physical activity (reduce LDL cholesterol)
• Lower stress
• A healthy diet (elimiinar especially saturated fats that raise cholesterol levels)
• Limit alcohol consumption
• Stop smoking
Things we can not change:
• Sex (men tend to have higher cholesterol levels than women until menopause, when men and women are at equal risk)
• The age (cholesterol levels increase with age)
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Facts About Cholesterol (Part 1)
Fact # 1: Cholesterol is a waxy substance found in the membranes of cells in our body.
Basically, cholesterol is a lipid, which is broadly defined as any fat-soluble, naturally occurring molecule, such as fats and oils. Cholesterol originates naturally in the body through the liver, but can be created in small quantities through our diet.
Cholesterol plays an important role in the body as a building block for cell walls and bile acids and is necessary to make hormones and vitamin D. A low level of blood cholesterol is natural and healthy.
Cholesterol only becomes a problem when more cholesterol in the blood than the body needs. Can cause the buildup of fatty deposits in the arteries, reducing blood flow in the arteries and then can become a problem for heart health.
Fact # 2: There are two types of blood cholesterol (good and bad) that are transported in special packages, namely:
Low density lipoprotein (LDL) transports cholesterol from the liver to body tissues. If there is a high level of bad cholesterol (LDL) levels can accumulate in the walls of blood vessels and lead to narrowing.
Your total cholesterol is made up of LDL and HDL. Therefore, the total cholesterol level recommended for heart health should be below 200 milligrams per deciliter (mg / dl).
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