Top 10 Healthiest Fruits

01. Strawberries

 

Strawberries have high levels of ellagic acid and anthocyanins, and are rich in vitamin C (95 mg per cup) and fiber (3.8 g per cup). Fruits provide lots vitamins and carbohydrates to nourish the body and also add variety to the diet. Apples are a great source of vitamin C, they prevents the growth of harmful bacteria and help fight cancer. Bananas are handy for problems like constipation and diarrhea. Blueberries have a number of health benefits including anti-cancerous, antiviral and anti-inflammatory properties. Mango are other sources of vitamin C. Research has also indicated that these fruits are beneficial for arthritis and other anti-inflammatory conditions because they have a cooling affect on the body. Here are top ten healthiest fruits to keep you fresh, healthy and full of life. 09 more after the break...

02. Apples

 An apple’s 3 g of fiber help you meet your fiber goal of 20 g to 30 g daily. High-fiber diets can lower heart disease risk

03. Bananas

 Bananas are a great source of potassium, which plays a key role in heart health and muscle function. Plus each one has 2 g of fiber.

04. Blackberries

 This fruit boasts a whopping 10 g of fiber in a single cup.

05. Cherries

 A good source of perillyl alcohol, which helps prevent cancer in animals. Heart-protective anthocyanins give cherries their color.

06. Blueberries

 Blueberries help prevent and treat bladder infections by making it hard for bacteria to stick to urinary tract walls.

07. Mangoes

 A single mango has enough beta-carotene to cover your RDA for vitamin A while racking up 57 mg of vitamin C.

08. Oranges fruits

One orange provides an impressive 50 mg to 70 mg of vitamin C, 40 mcg of folic acid and 52 mg of calcium.

09. Purple grapes

 Offer three heart-guarding compounds: flavonoids, anthocyanins and resveratrol (green grapes are not rich in them)

10. Raspberries

Teeming with 8 g of fiber per cup, they also boast vitamin C, ellagic acid and anthocyanins.

This is a guest post by Phil Kim who blogs about health and wellness and is doing research at philosophy of Mr. Ilchi Lee.

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How to Attain Better Health and Life through Herbal Vitamins and Diet Supplements

Anyone who is a little concerned about his overall health and want to improve his fitness levels by using minerals, vitamins and supplements might have learnt a lot or a little about Herbal Life.

Herbal life is a famous global nutrition and diet company.

The company is engaged with helping people since early nineteen eighties about how to reduce weight and company supply good health products for the people.

The products of Health and Life are available in UK, US and Canada.

Majorly, they provide wide array of vitamins.

The company doesn’t provide medical expertise, so one may check and ask with their doctors about which vitamins will suit them in certain conditions.

It is necessary for one to improve their diet and exercise regularly if they are looking forward to improve their health.

Along with that, they may prefer to take some herbal life supplements and vitamins that will ensure that their body is acquiring exact quantity of nutrients.

One cannot get healthier within moments or days, yet if one eats properly and exercises regularly, then some improvements can surely be expected.

Some people misunderstand the importance of Herbal Life supplements and vitamins.

They think that if they regularly take the supplements, their health will improve automatically.

That is not the case, apart from taking proper herbal life supplements, you will have to eat well, exercise well and sleep well.

You may find it difficult to change your life style.

Yet if you try to change the wrong habits one by one, step by step, there certainly are possibilities of improvement.

You will realize how beneficial it is to have a proper diet and exercising schedule.

As you will improve your habits, your diet, your sleep and exercising routine, you will see that you are recuperating your health with faster pace.

Before you may decide to start a change in your diet and your work-out schedule, it is necessary for you to take proper advices from your physician and doctor before implementing any change.

If you are enjoying regular check up services from some doctors, you will be able to attain much specialized ideas for what changes you must have in your daily routine, diet habits and other issues.

They may also suggest that you just need to improve your diet and it is not necessary to indulge with heavy exercises every day.

They will suggest you take the proper herbal life supplements and vitamins and that will help you thoroughly.

In case you decide sternly that you have to change your daily habits, dieting, drinking etc and want to increase the levels of your regular work outs and exercises, then you should start gradual changes in your daily routine.

That will not have any adverse affect.

Change slowly and meet with your doctor, let him examine you, if the changes are working properly, it’s well and good.

Yet if you face further problem because of those changes, you will have to turn back and to stop bringing in any further changes.

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Herbal Medicines through Home Made Herbal Capsules

Do you think it would be difficult to make herbal capsules that may help you in fighting against various ailments?

You can make the similar herbal capsules that people purchase from health food stores or Homeopathy medicines store by proper drying of the herbs and crushing them and making tablets of the crushed powder.

These herbal homemade capsules then can be given to your kids who in general refuse to take herbs.

These herbal capsules also help in taking of those herbs that are bitter or not so pleasant in taste.

Instructions for making herbal capsules

Step 1

Herbs should be properly dried

One can dry these herbs by following various methods like keeping the herbs handing upside down in air besides a sunny window or you may use a dehydrator to dry them up.

The air should be allowed to circulate freely whole around the herbs. The best way is to keep the herbs out to get dried under the direct sun heating rays.

Step 2

Crush the herbs making them proper powder

One can grind the dried up herbs using a coffee grinder or a spice mill or a food processor.

There are many other ways like using traditional mortar and pestle.

Step 3

How to fill the Herb Capsules

One can buy empty capsules online or from local market or local health food store.

Pull apart one of the capsule and open it up.

Scoop up a little of the stuffed dried and crushed herb power with both of the end.

Once both the ends fills up with the herb powder, push the capsule properly to close it back together.

Step 4

How to take the capsules (or eat them)

One should notice that the dried amount of herb is much more than the fresh herb.

That is, if you are taking 1 gram of herbs in the dried up capsule, it is equivalent to take 8 grams of fresh herbs.

You can use this ratio to ensure that you are taking sufficient amount of herbs and not too much or less.

These herbal capsules can be used for various purposes; one of them is to provide proper nutrients to you and your family members.

Along with that, one can use natural herbal medicines to cure various allergies common in children and adults.

Furthermore, the best characteristic of homeopathy is that herbal medicines never disturb the person with any side effect.

Thus, using proper herbs for various ailments, allergies or supplement for the diets is very easy.

If your kids are not in habit of taking fresh herbs and feel annoyed by the taste or smell of these health giving herbs, you can simply dry them up, crush them, make proper powder, fill that powder in empty capsules and use these freshly made dry herbs capsules to let your children and family members enjoy and get benefited with the excellent help from herbal medicines.

Some of the common herbal remedies that can be used as herbal capsules are ginger roots and aloe plant.

Ginger roots gets dried up in open sun light easily and once they get properly dried up, you can crush them and fill the ginger root powder in the capsules.There are many similar herbs and roots that has a significance in homeopathy.

Parents 'want child gene tests'

Parents believe the benefits of testing their children for the genetic risk of some diseases outweigh the negative consequences, according to US scientists.

In the study, published in the journal Pediatrics, parents who were offered a genetic test supported their children also being tested.

The authors say doctors and politicians need to be more aware of the issue.

Genewatch UK said children should never be tested for adult conditions.

Genetic testing used to be confined to specialist clinics, but direct-to-consumer testing is now possible.

People send a sample to a company in the post and are told if they have any genes which carry an increased risk of illness.

Genetic test

In this study, 219 parents were tested for 15 genetic variants linked to heart disease, osteoporosis, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, type 2 diabetes and colon, skin and lung cancer.

They were then asked a series of questions to compare benefits such as reassurance, knowledge and prevention, with risks such as invasion of privacy and psychological discomfort.

The report found that "parents offered the genetic susceptibility test for common preventable conditions tended to consider that the potential benefits of this test for their own child could outweigh its risks".

Professor Kenneth Tercyak, from the Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, said: "These tests usually don't offer a clean bill of health and can be hard to interpret even in the best scenario."

Helen Wallace, from genetic science lobby group Genewatch UK, said: "Online gene tests frequently give misleading results because most common conditions such as cancer, obesity or diabetes are not predicable from a person's genes, except in special circumstances.

"Children should not be tested for risk of adult-onset conditions, full stop. They should be allowed to decide for themselves, with medical advice, when they are grown up."

Prof Tercyak said: "The findings of our study should remind clinicians and policy-makers to consider children when regulating genetic tests."

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TeloVac pancreatic cancer vaccine trial launched in UK

A trial has begun on a vaccine treating pancreatic cancer, which has the lowest survival rate of all common cancers.

More than 1,000 patients with advanced pancreatic cancer have joined the TeloVac trial at 53 UK hospitals.

Vaccines are usually associated with preventing infections, but this is part of a new approach to try to stimulate the immune system to fight cancer.

The trial involves regular doses of vaccine together with chemotherapy and compares this with chemotherapy alone.

The vaccine contains small sections of a protein, telomerase, which is over-produced by cancer cells. The aim is to stimulate the immune system to recognise the telomerase which sits on the surface of the cancer cells and to target the tumour.

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Professor John Neoptolemos from Royal Liverpool University Hospital, who is helping to co-ordinate the trial, said: "The problem is tumours are clever and are able to turn the immune cells into traitors which help to guard the tumour.

"The vaccine takes away the masking effect of the tumour."

Pancreatic cancer has the worst survival rate of all common cancers. Just three in 100 patients survive the disease for five years or more.

Rhona Longworth, 43, who was diagnosed with the cancer in February, said: "For someone who's never smoked and hardly ever drank, it was a big shock.

"I just hope the vaccine works and I'm one person who goes on to live a happy, healthy life after this."

Joan Roberts, 69, said the vaccine appeared to have few side effects and she is keeping her fingers crossed about the impact on her cancer.

"I'm pleased that it's stable and it hasn't got any bigger. You've got to remain positive," she said.

The TeloVac trial is being funded by Cancer Research UK. The charity is supporting trials against a range of cancers, using vaccines or antibody treatments to stimulate the immune system.

Cancer Research UK's chief clinician Professor Peter Johnson said: "One of big problems with cancer treatment is you are almost always left with a few malignant cells and it is from those few cells that the cancer can regrow.

"If you can programme the immune system to recognise those cells and get rid of them altogether or keep them in check then you can effectively stop the cancer from growing back lifelong."

The South Korean manufacturer of the vaccine, KAEL-GemVax, is planning a lung cancer trial later this year using the same technology.

Last year the first therapeutic cancer vaccine was licensed in the US as a treatment against prostate cancer.

The Phase III or final stage TeloVac trial should produce results in just over a year which will show whether the vaccine has a positive effect.

Cancer Research UK is keen to stress that the vaccine is not a cure, but if it works, might prolong life.

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Premature birth gene 'discovered'

A gene linked to premature births has been discovered, scientists in the US and Finland have said.

The researchers hope their study, published in PLoS Genetics, could eventually lead to a test for women at risk of a pre-term birth.

In the UK, one in 10 babies is born before the 37th week of pregnancy, with potential problems for their health.

The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists said it would help to identify a percentage of those at risk.

The international team of researchers looked to human evolution in their hunt for genes linked to premature births.

In comparison to other primates and mammals, humans have relatively large heads and narrow birth canals.

Acceleration

The researchers, at Vanderbilt University, Washington University and the University of Helsinki, believed there must have been an evolutionary pressure to "adapt and shift the time of birth" to produce a smaller baby.

They looked for DNA which showed evidence of "accelerated evolution" - genes which have mutated more in humans than in other primates.

They identified 150 genes.

The next step was to look for an association with premature births, so the researchers compared those 150 genes in 328 Finnish mothers, some of whom had premature births.

A strong association to pre-term births was found in variants of the FSHR - or follicle stimulating hormone receptor - gene.

Follicle stimulating hormone acts on receptors in the ovaries to encourage follicle (a sphere of cells containing an egg) development and production of the hormone oestrogen.

'Greatest risk'

Professor Louis Muglia, from the department of paediatrics at Vanderbilt University, said: "Ideally we'd like to predict which women are at greatest risk for having pre-term birth and be able to prevent it. That would really have an impact on infant mortality and the long-term complications of being born prematurely."

Professor Ronald Lamont, spokesperson for the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, said: "I think it's fantastic, it's a good group of well respected people doing this research."

He said the risk of premature birth was likely to be a mix of genetic and environmental factors.

"In the future we will be able to identify a percentage of people at risk. It won't be the be all and end all, but it will contribute to our knowledge."

In a separate study, a team at Washington State University believe they have identified why eggs are produced which result in miscarriage and birth defects.

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