Tag: Longevity
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Healthy Colon: How To Have Your Happiest Intestine Yet
Being imperative for digestive health makes the colon paramount for our general health and well-being. Despite this, we often tend to forget about it and the importance of a healthy colon. This organ (also known as the large intestine) is the final stop with regard to the digestion of food. After being partially digested in…
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Hemp: An Easy Solution To Many Of Our Problems
There is a plant that can be harnessed to address many of the problems we face in this country: nutrition, employment and environmental damage, for starters. It can be used to make rope, clothes, food, paper, textiles, plastics, insulation and biofuel. This plant is called hemp, and it is banned from being grown in this…
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HFCS: What Is High-Fructose Corn Syrup?
Have you ever looked at a product’s marketing – low-carb, fat-free – and without checking the label, assumed that it’s healthy? Well, high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) might give you a reason to double-check the ingredient list. If HFCS is listed, it might as well read “coated in sugar”. Why do manufacturers use this ingredient? It…
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Diva Of The Aesthetic Realm: Meet Jennifer Glodik
Jennifer Glodik’s story has quite the edge to it. This 30-year-old Russian was married too young, experienced a lot of pain at the hands of her then-husband and mother-in-law, lost everything she built up, and was eventually left with nothing. If she wasn’t made of steel, she would have given up on life. Ms. Glodik,…
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Fast Fashion: The Dark Side Of Retail
The darker side of the fashion industry is currently being revealed through a trend known as fast fashion. After SOS notes were found in clothing bought at Zara and other large retail stores, the conditions under which clothes are currently being created came under the spotlight. The notes in question were reportedly slipped into the…
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Malaria: Ongoing Solutions To Eradicate It By 2040
This week – at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in London – Bayer joins with members of the agriculture industry – BASF, Mitsui Chemicals, Sumitomo Chemical Company and Syngenta – to pledge its ongoing support to the research, development and supply of innovative vector control solutions, to help eradicate malaria by 2040. The industry collaboration is…
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Scientists Discover Method To Reduce Allergy Sensitivity
Among the hot topics raised at the recently held World Allergy Congress (WAC) in Orlando, Florida (USA) – ahead of World Allergy Week (22-28 April) – was scientists’ discovery of a method using immune cell transfer and genetic engineering, which can switch on or turn off people’s reaction to allergies. Scientists from the University of…
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Book Review: Why The Chinese Don’t Count Calories
Book Title: Why The Chinese Don’t Count Calories: fifteen age-old secrets that can change your life By Lorraine Clissold As opposed to taking up another fad diet, adopting the traditional Chinese attitude towards food could be the best dietary step you can take. With regards to one’s relationship towards food, many have made the act of…
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The Nefertiti Lift: The Neckline You Always Wanted
Having a long, elegant neckline could be harder to achieve than you thought. We all know the benefits of botulinum toxin when it comes to aesthetics, but did you know it can help reduce neck jowls too? What is botulinum toxin? Botulinum toxin is a refined excretory by-product that comes from bacteria, and is developed…
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Proteolytic Enzymes: The Body’s Natural Catalysts
Enzymes are the body’s natural catalysts. They are needed for every single chemical action that occurs within the body. Proteolytic enzymes – also known as protease – are enzymes that aid in the breakdown of protein. They also help to assimilate it into the digestive system. Protease is naturally produced by the pancreas and stomach…