Artery-clogging saturated fat myth debunked Among doctors and the public alike, there is a popular belief that dietary saturated fat clogs up the arteries and results in coronary heart disease. A new editorial published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine says that this notion of saturated fat clogging a pipe is “just plain wrong.” […]
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An easy explanation of Blood Pressure Blood pressure is the pressure of blood on the walls of arteries as heart pumps it around your body. It’s a vital part of how heart and circulation works. Blood pressure naturally goes up and down all the time, adjusting to heart’s needs depending on what you are doing.
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Poliovirus kills off cancer cells, stops tumor regrowth Researchers from Duke University in Durham, NC, may have discovered a new way of killing off cancer cells. The team was jointly led by Dr. Matthias Gromeier, a professor in the Department of Neurosurgery, and Prof. Smita Nair, who is an immunologist in the Department of Surgery.
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How yoga, meditation benefit the mind and body Yoga and meditation have both become increasingly popular in the Western world, and practitioners praise their psychological and physical benefits. Current research also suggests that meditating and doing yoga can boost overall well-being and resilience to stress factors. Increasingly, yoga practice and meditation have been the focus
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HIV breakthrough: Scientists remove virus in animals using gene editing Worldwide, tens of millions of people are living with HIV. While scientists and medical professionals do not yet have a permanent cure for the virus, researchers have just made a breakthrough: they managed to eliminate the HIV-1 infection in mice. According to the Centers for
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What is Hydroponics? The science of soil-less gardening is called hydroponics. It basically involves growing healthy plants without the use of a traditional soil medium by using a nutrient like a mineral rich water solution instead. A plant just needs select nutrients, some water, and sunlight to grow. Not only do plants grow without soil,
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Scarification, Stratification and Germination Scarification — why scarify seeds? In a natural environment, many seeds get battered about with weather (frost, rain, fire), sand, soil particles, and birds and animals’ digestive systems. It’s called seed abrading or scarification and in the home garden the tougher seeds, which we’ve carefully harvested, may need to be roughened
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Communication in bees by waggle dance Domestic honey bee, Apis mellifera is a colonial insect living in hives containing one queen a fertile female ,a few drones (males) and thousands of workers (infertile females). Some 5–25% of the workers in the hive are scouts. Their job is to search for new sources of food for
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Genetically Engineered Food Due to ever increasing population and scarcity of food stuff, the community of agriculturists continuously introducing new varieties of crops. Since 1994, they are produced in a way that is very similar to genetic engineering. The technique used in this type of crop management has been introduced to ensure farmers and merchants
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Importance of fungi as Food Fungi figure prominently in the human diet. Morels, shiitake mushrooms, chanterelles, and truffles are considered delicacies. The meadow mushroom, Agaricus campestris, appears in many dishes. Molds of the genus Penicillium ripen many cheeses. They originate in the natural environment such as the caves of Roquefort, France, where wheels of sheep
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