Popular Brew May Lower Cholesterol, Blood Pressure, and Triglycerides: “ Drinking three or more cups of tea a day is as good for you as drinking plenty of water — and may be even better. Research dispels the common belief that tea dehydrates. Tea not only rehydrates as well as water does, but it can [...]
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Explore this section to learn more about the ways in which alcohol affects the liver and how alcohol-induced liver disease is diagnosed and treated.. What is the liver’s role in processing alcohol? The liver breaks down alcohol so it can be eliminated from your body. If you consume more alcohol than the liver can process, [...]
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Banned in 160 Nations. Yet U.S. FDA Regards it as Safe?: “ A livestock drug banned in 160 nations and responsible for hyperactivity, muscle breakdown and 10 percent mortality in pigs has been approved by the FDA. The beta agonist ractopamine, a repartitioning agent that increases protein synthesis, was recruited for livestock use when researchers [...]
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Study links sugary soda to pancreas cancer Drinking just two or more sweetened soft drinks a week increases risk updated 8:13 a.m. CT, Tues., Feb. 9, 2010 WASHINGTON – People who drink two or more sweetened soft drinks a week have a much higher risk of pancreatic cancer, an unusual but deadly cancer, researchers reported [...]
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Green Tea Extracts Halt Growth of Prostate Cancer Tumors: “(NaturalNews) An extract made from one of the main antioxidants found in green tea may be able to slow the progression of prostate cancer, according to a study conducted by researchers from Louisiana state University and published in Cancer Prevention Research, a journal of the American [...]
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Fecal Bacteria Found in Nearly Half of Fast Food Soda Fountains: “ A recent study has revealed that a full 48 percent of soda fountains at fast food restaurants contain coliform bacteria — a bacteria that grows in feces. Eleven percent also ‘contained E. Coli. Other opportunistic pathogenic microorganisms found included Chryseobacterium meningosepticum and of [...]
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