Researchers at UC San Diego and UC Davis examined chocolate consumption and other dietary intake patterns among 931 men and women who were not using antidepressants. The participants were also given a depression screening test. Those who screened positive for possible depression consumed an average of 8.4 servings of chocolate — defined as one ounce of chocolate candy — per month. That compared with 5.4 servings per month among people who were not depressed.
With latest studies centered on Green tea, the wonder tea’s benefits seem to be growing endlessly long. We are familiar about the healing properties of Green Tea when it comes to chronic troubles such as constipation, arthritis etc. Now scientists have uncovered yet another valuable trait that Green Tea possesses: Keeping eye diseases at bay.
In a recent study, researchers found that normal-weight young men ate a Big Mac’s-worth of extra calories when they’d gotten four hours of sleep the night before compared to when they slept for eight hours.
In a recent study, researchers found that normal-weight young men ate a Big Mac’s-worth of extra calories when they’d gotten four hours of sleep the night before compared to when they slept for eight hours.
An analysis by Mount Sinai researchers of over eight years of dietary data from more than 400,000 people has found that the relationship between high consumption of fruits and vegetables and a reduced risk of cancer is not as strong as commonly thought.
I have a healthy disdain for those lists of wine and food matches you find in wine books and on websites. They play to the lack of confidence many people have when it comes to choosing a bottle of wine to go with a particular meal, and say, "Don't think about it yourself. Choose a wine that I suggest."
In news that will surely delight chocolate lovers, a Harvard study finds that a couple of squares of dark chocolate a day might reduce the risk of a hemorrhagic stroke by as much as 52 percent.
For centuries vodka was used as therapeutic and curative substance. Vodka strengthens the weak and the tired. A shot of vodka can bring moxie back much faster than food.
The inhalation of smoke, especially from cigarettes, is a leading cause of lung cancer. But new research on lung cells in a lab shows a glass or two of red wine may help prevent the disease.
Researchers at the University of New York at Buffalo have discovered that orange juice may do more than providing a healthy dose of vitamin C to the human body. According to their research recently published, orange juice may help to combat the damaging, inflammatory effects that high fat and/or high carbohydrate meals may cause on the body.
A preliminary study by New Zealand Company Plant & Food Research shows that natural chemicals from blackcurrants may help breathing in some types of asthma. Researchers found a compound from a New Zealand blackcurrant may reduce lung inflammation with a multi-action assault in allergy-induced asthma.
The first comprehensive study that analyzes the effects of the Mediterranean diet on the body maintains that this eating pattern reduces by 33 percent the risk of gastric tumors, one of the cancers with the poorest prognoses and the least effective treatments available right now.
The intake of one serving of dry fruits a day improves cardiovascular health and reduces the metabolic risk of diabetes, as demonstrated by the Human Nutrition Unit, of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, at the University Rovira i Virgili in Tarragona. Until now there had been no studies to show whether nuts may improve insulin resistance, a stage prior to the onset of diabetes.
