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Healthful Staples
Forget your former throw-whatever-looks-good-into-the-cart approach and bring this list next time you head to the supermarket. Stocking your pantry with these heart healthy choices will set you up for cholesterol-success.
For the cupboard
Canned beans, such as black, white, pinto, garbanzo, and kidney.*
Dried fruits, such as figs, raisins, prunes, apricots, and dates.
Whole wheat flour for [...]

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You’ve probably heard news reports about a potentially dangerous avian flu. And like many people, you may be wondering how to react to the frightening headlines about people having died of the bird flu and the possibility of the flu someday spreading rapidly around the world, infecting humans.
While the bird flu can be serious, unless [...]

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Why Do Some People Choose to Co-sleep?
Co-sleeping supporters believe :— and there are some studies to support their beliefs — that co-sleeping:
1.Encourages breastfeeding by making nighttime breastfeeding more convenient .
2.Makes it easier for a nursing mother to get her sleep cycle in sync with her baby’s .
3.Helps babies fall asleep more easily, especially during their [...]

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Botanical Name: Salvia officinalis (LINN.)
Family: N.O. Labiatae
Synonyms-: (Old English) Sawge. Garden Sage. Red Sage. Broad-leaved White Sage. Narrow-leaved White Sage. Salvia salvatrix.
Parts Used-–Leaves, whole herb.
Indian Name: Salvia or Sefakuss
Common sage (Salvia officinalis) is a small evergreen subshrub, with woody stems, grayish leaves, and blue to purplish flowers native to southern Europe and the [...]

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WASHINGTON: The findings of a study has confirmed the theory that hormone replacement therapy (HRT) does not benefit older women, and should not be prescribed to them in an attempt to prevent chronic conditions such as heart disease.
In 1999, boffins undertook the Women’s International Study of long Duration Oestrogen after Menopause (WISDOM) trial to assess [...]

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Finding Gifts In All
When we have good days, we often find ourselves going over the details later, enjoying them a second and third time as we feel the joy of our good fortune. When we have bad days, we may find ourselves poring over the details of our misfortunes. However, we can reframe those [...]

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Snake Groud (Trichosanthes cucumerina) is a tropical or subtropical vine, raised for its strikingly long fruit, used as a vegetable and for medicine. Other names include (Trichosanthes cucumerina var. anguina ), serpent gourd, chichinga, and padwal. It is known as potlakaaya in Telugu, pudalankaai in Tamil, paduvalakaayi in Kannada and padavalanga in Malayalam.
The narrow, [...]

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Some Questions and Answers on Rotavirus Vaccine:
Why is it important to vaccinate against rotavirus? Isn’t the disease benign?
Rotavirus is the most common cause of severe gastroenteritis in infants and young children. The disease may cause severe dehydrating diarrhea with vomiting and fever. Almost all children are infected by age 5 years. [...]

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LONDON: Latest research by scientists in Britain indicates that besides causing cancer, heart attacks and strokes, smoking also affects muscles.
Researchers, who studied the health of 16 people all considered to be healthy and having no symptoms of lung disease, said that those who smoke are likely to lose more muscle mass in old age than [...]

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Rotavirus most often infects infants and young children, and in children ages 3 months to 2 years, is one of the most common causes of diarrhea. In the United States, it leads to outbreaks of diarrhea during the winter and spring months. It is particularly a problem in child-care centers and children’s hospitals. Almost all [...]

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Parts That Don’t Want To Heal
In almost every case, we know what is best for us in our lives, from the relationships we create to the food we eat. Still, somewhat mysteriously, it is often difficult to make the right choices for ourselves. We find ourselves hanging out with someone who leaves us feeling [...]

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Biological Name: Achyranthes aspera
Family: Amarantaceae
Other Names: Rough Chaff Tree, Prickly Chaff Flower, Apamarga, Apamara, Adharajhada, Aghada, Aghata, Antisha, Apamarga, Apamargamu, Apang, Atkumah, Chirchira, Duk.-Agari, Kadaladi, Katalati, Kharamanjari, Khare-vazhun, Kune-la- mon, Kutri, Latjira, Nayuruvi, Pan- dhara-aghada, Safed hedo, Shiru-kidaladi, Uttaraene, Uttaranee
Scientific Name: Achyranthes aspera var. perphyristachya Hook F.
Family: Amaranthaceae
English Name: Prickly Chaff-flower.
Hindi Name: [...]

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A new molecule extracted from frogs could be a potential remedy for brain cancer.

Frogs’ eggs contain molecules with special cancer curing properties.
Some of the best drugs that we have were found in nature. Conventional wisdom suggests that nature is still the best place to look for drugs to fight even serious diseases. The only problem [...]

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Family: Scrophulariaceae
Botanical name: Picrorhiza Kurrora
Common names: Kutki, Katuka
English Name: Gentian
Indian Name: Kutki
Habitat :Alpine grassland and gravelly areas at elevations of 3600 - 4400 metres in W Sichuan, S Xizang and NW Yunnan. Picrorhiza is a creeping plant native to the mountains of India, Nepal, Tibet and Pakistan.
Also known as Kharbagehindi, the plant consists of long [...]

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The common vegetable Pumpkin will now be more tastier than ever as Chinese scientists have claimed that it can “drastically” reduce the need for daily insulin injections for millions of diabetic patients worldwide.
Scientists have discovered a compound in pumpkin that has been known to promote the regeneration of damaged insulin-producing beta cells in diabetic rats, [...]

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Silliness
Children appreciate all that is silly as a matter of course. Their grasp of humor is instinctual, and even the smallest absurdities provoke joyous gales of earnest laughter. As we age, this innate ability to see the value of silliness can diminish. Work takes precedence over play, and we have less incentive to exercise [...]

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LONDON: Playing music on the bagpipes has helped cure a teenager Scot of severe asthma.
Fifteen-year-old David Armour’s sufferings from the disease were such that he had to give up sports and physical education lessons at school. His mother Janet had read somewhere about the benefits of playing wind instruments to people with breathing problems, and [...]

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Summer
Our memories of summer are often intense because it is a season blessed with a vividness unsurpassed by any other time of year. Our senses are delighted by bright colors, fresh scents, vibrant flavors, brilliant sunlight, and heat’s caress. There is a sumptuousness about summertime, as both flora and fauna come into their own, regaling [...]

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Soccer ball-shaped nanoparticles known as buckyballs may one day help to offer relief for allergy sufferers. Adapted buckyballs are capable of blocking the pathway mediating allergic responses in human immune cells, new research has revealed.
Buckminsterfullerenes—spherical cages about 1-10 nanometres in size made up of 60 carbon atoms—have for years attracted interest from material scientists for [...]

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Definition:
Low blood pressure is an abnormal condition in which a person’s blood pressure (the pressure of the blood against the walls of the blood vessels during and after each beat of the heart) is much lower than usual. It can cause symptoms such as dizziness or lightheadedness.
Alternative Names:
Hypotension; Low blood pressure
In physiology and medicine, [...]

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