Archive for Health

Reduce salt intake for healthy life

by: ashok October 4, 2008

Three gram reduction in a person’s dietary intake of salt would result in over a 20 per cent drop in deaths from stroke and over a 15 per cent fall in death from heart disease, according to a senior cardiologist in Coimbatore.
“Heart disease and stroke are the world’s number one killer, causing 17.5 million deaths [...]

The Viagra effects of Watermelon

by: ashok July 4, 2008

A slice of cool, fresh watermelon has effects similar to the impotence drug Viagra, researchers say.
Watermelons contain an ingredient called citrulline that can trigger production of a compound that helps relax the body’s blood vessels, similar to what happens when a man takes Viagra, said scientists in Texas, one of the United States’ top producers [...]

Indian doc pioneers breast cancer detection

by: ashok May 29, 2008

A Goa-born surgeon researching and teaching at the Dundee University in Scotland has pioneered a new method for the early detection of breast cancer.
 
Jayant Vaidya, senior lecturer and consultant surgeon at the university, is a leading member of a team of surgeons that discovered that malignant tumours remain cold when surrounding breast tissue is heated [...]

Passion fruit helps Asthma patients

by: ashok May 29, 2008

SYDNEY- A passion fruit extract can cut down severe wheezing and coughing among asthma patients and help reduce blood pressure, a new study published in the journal Nutrition Research , has found.
In a placebo-controlled, double-blind trial, only about a fifth of the people receiving purple passion fruit skin extracts had wheeze as a symptom, compared [...]