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January is Thyroid Awareness Month and
January -11 is National Folic Awareness Week
natural Blood Pressure Relief
G
lutamic acid, the most common
amino acid in vegetables, and which
accounts for almost a quarter of the protein
in vegetables, also helps reduce blood
pressure. Eating a vegetable-based diet,
suggests a new study published in the
Journal of the American Heart Association,
could help counter the current massive
public health problem of high blood pres-
sure, for which diagnosis and drug treat-
ment is often inadequate.
Folic Acid Update
F
olic acid, or folate, a B vitamin found in
many vegetables and whole grains, is known
Great spirits have
to reduce neural tube defects in infants when
taken during pregnancy. But now, a study at the
always been met
University of Southern California has discovered
that men taking a daily folic acid supplement of
with violent opposition
1 milligram ran twice the risk of prostate cancer
from mediocre minds.
than those who took a placebo. Many foods are
already fortified with folic acid, say experts in a
~ Albert Einstein
BMC Public Health article, and taking the vitamin
in supplements may result in “overdosing.”
Source: BioMed Central, 2009
The Power of Food
Surfi ng the Web
Choose to eat the foods that
prevent disease, not create it.
Boosts Brain Power
C
rossword puzzles, move over, because a new
study from the University of California attests
that “Googling” or otherwise browsing the Internet
Have you been wanting to: lights up the brain like a Roman candle. When study
~ Understand your body better participants performed Web searches while undergo-
~ Reduce cravings ing MRI scans, they showed an improved efficiency
~ Lose weight in cognitive processing and in the way their brain encodes information. This held
~ Increase energy true even for middle-aged and older individuals who had minimal computer expe-
~ Improve overall wellbeing rience and who performed Internet searches for only a short period of time.
Fran Michalopoulos, C.H.C., D.P.
Internet searching, it appears, engages a complicated brain activity that exer-
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