September 9th, 2010 by Stand Team

The researchers from Marshall University School of Medicine in Huntington, West Virginia, found that the laboratory animals bred for breast cancer has a risk significantly less of breast cancer if they eat with the human equivalent to a handful of nuts a day.

“The nuts are better than cookies or potato chips when you need a snack,” says Elaine Hardman, one of the researchers working in the study.

“We know that a healthy diet in general avoids any type of chronic diseases,” he said.

“The nuts contain several ingredients, individually, it has proved effective against cancer of slow growth, since they have omega-3, antioxidants and phytosterols,” the team of Hardman wrote in a summary presented at the annual meeting in Denver of the American Association for Cancer Research’s.

So in study determined that the laboratories animals that eat nuts have fewer and smaller breast tumors, and even appear did so much later than in the other control animals.

“It is clear that the nuts contribute to a healthy diet that can reduce breast cancer”. Read the rest of this entry »

April 15th, 2010 by Stand Team

In our blog health we worry about the welfare of your body, in which is the moisture on the skin. Have a skin smooth and soft is one of the goals that are marked many people, to feel gusto themselves. In order to achieve this, there are many foods and products capable of please, of which we emphasize the coconut: skin hydrated. I suppose that anyone pillar by surprise the amount of benefits that has the coconut, one of the natural products that make it look after our body. The skin is one of the bodies that more is benefited by the properties of coconut, stressing the hydrate as a source of health.

The aroma is the first thing we emphasize the coconut, an odor capable of raising the senses of more entrenched. But we also have to talk about the texture of coconut, that applied in creams, brings a softness to the skin that relaxes, comfort and wet. This tropical fruit is rich in mineral salts, among which the phosphorus, magnesium and calcium, which represents an intake for fiber important and that is add to isotonic drinks for athletes. Therefore, the coconut has a high nutritional value, as a sample of the amount of minerals and vitamins of which has in its composition.

Among the most prominent applications is the exfoliation, i.e. the coconut is a good exfoliate for the skin, thanks to the properties that follows the pulp, the heart of the coconut; it is of great value search on the market creams exfoliating coconut. We also need to speak of coconut as a food with great value emollient

All these characteristics (and many other more than you can discover), make the coconut ideal food for moisturize the skin. The bogeyman eliminates the skin dryness and favors that this takes a content wet, becoming soft and smooth. You can also be useful to eliminate the streak, as well as to nourish the hair. Read the rest of this entry »