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By WRF in Preventive-Healthcare | 0 Comments
Common garden peas could be used to help people fight high blood pressure and chronic kidney disease, researchers have discovered. Peas have long been recognized as a ’superfood’ because they are loaded with fibers and vitamins.
But now scientists have uncovered a protein in garden peas that reduced blood pressure in rats by 20%. “In people with high blood pressure, our protein could potentially delay or prevent the onset of kidney damage,” said study author Rotimi Aluko, a food chemist at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, Canada.
Narelle Towie, The Sunday Mail
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Pea Protein Fights Blood Pressure And Kidney Disease
By WRF in WRF News | 0 Comments
Researchers have found that pupils that consume junk food do not do as well academically that pupils that stick to healthier diets.
The medical study surveyed over 5 thousand 10- to 11-year-old students how many times per week they ate pre-prepared “fast food.” Dr Kerri Tobin (Tennessee’s Vanderbilt University) stated that the children were then administered tests in literacy and mathematics (specifically, the ability to understand mathematical concepts, perform calculations and interpret and use statistical information).
The researchers found a direct correlation between the amount of sugar and high fat foods that they students stated they consumes and their (lack of) performance on the tests. Students who said that they ate “junk food” 4 to 6 times each week scored an average of 6.96 points lower in reading, while the pupils who stated that they ate “junk food” daily were were 16.07 points below average. Test subjects who ate fast food for every meal were even worse: 19.34 points below average.
For the mathematics tests, students who consumed fast food 4 to 6 times each week had scores 6.55 points below average. Daily consumption equated to a drop of 14.82 points, while the three-”junk food”-meals-a-day students scored 18.48 points below average.
The research supports the opinions of food experts that a healthier diet can improve a child’s various aspects that can affect a child’s education, such as concentration, attention span, learning ability, brain function and even behavior.
By WRF in WRF News | 1 Comment
The World Research Foundation is very pleased to present the Los Angeles Premiere of a new documentary:
Mary Pickford, The Muse of the Movies
In Celebration of the 100th Anniversary of Mary Pickford in Film
Friday, August 28, 2009
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- 7:00 PM – VIP Reception with Hors d’oeuvres & Wine / Silent auction
- 8:00 PM – Mary Pickford Documentary followed by Dessert & Coffee
For Reservations Call: (310) 827-0070
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Samuel Goldwyn Theater
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
8949 Wilshire Blvd., Beverly Hills, California
Donation $75 to World Research Foundation ( Tax deductible 501(c)3 )
Produced by
Elizabeth Wood Coldicutt (Caroline Victoria Foundation) and Nicholas Eliopoulos
Narrated by Michael York
Edited & Directed by Nicholas Eliopoulos
Supporting Celebrities:
Pat and Michael York
Kelly and Don Johnson
Lily Tomlin
Renee Taylor and Joseph Bologna
Lainie Kazan
Louise Hay
Emmanuel Renoir
Connie Stevens
Sharon Gless
Sylvia Browne
…and more
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By WRF in Ancient Medicine | 5 Comments
The Badianus Manuscript, (Codex Barberini, Latin 241) an Aztec Herbal of 1552, was discovered at the Vatican Library in 1929 by Professor Charles U. Clark.
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The manuscript was bound in 16th century crimson velvet and is the earliest treatise on Mexican medicinal plants and native remedies which has ever come down to us. It is the work of two Aztec Indians, Martinus de la Cruz, a native physician who composed the work in Aztec, and another Indian, Juannes Badianus, who translated the text into Latin.
The manuscript was reprinted in 1940, by the John’s Hopkins Press, and all the quoted material in this article comes from this publication.
“We have always known that the Aztecs had physicians of great experience. The Spanish conquerors were very much impressed by the medical lore of the Indians and they mentioned it with much praise in all their early reports from Cortez’s letter to Charles V.”
What makes this manuscript very unique is that the information that was provided by the Indians and recorded in the book was unaltered by the recorder and translator.
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By WRF in Preventive-Healthcare | 1 Comment
Medical research has come a long way, and as a result, people live much longer than they used to. While no one can argue that expanding the average person’s lifespan is good, many folks are not enjoying the quality of life that we would hope as they get older. Many of the elderly have chronic conditions that overwhelm their daily activities or they get diseases repeatedly, which ultimately raises health insurance premiums. Learning about and practicing preventive healthcare, i.e maintaining your body and good health throughout your entire lifetime, is properly the best method to prevent disease from happening in the first place.
When you are sick, you have no choice but to think about your health; it’s right there in your face – you feel awful. Preventive health care must be planned and executed ahead of time, even when illness is absent. You must build healthy habits even when it’s not convenient. You must believe that maintaining a health lifestyle is important enough to make a few sacrifices. Eating right, getting exercise and avoiding destructive substances like tobacco, alcohol and excessive amounts of sugar and salt are crucial, as is getting enough sleep each night. Healthy habits are an “automatic” defense against most illnesses and can provide us a long, healthy – and thus happy – life. Read the rest
By WRF in Alternative Therapies | 18 Comments
At one time, long ago in our history, medicine was considered an art and not just a profession. To be a physician was a noble and sacred task. During the time of the ancient Greeks we find sacred temples of healing and the physician priests accomplished wonderful and profound healings.
In more modern times, if we consider the 1500s modern compared to 300 BC, we read the words of Paracelsus talking about the sacredness of the medical profession and his thoughts regarding the true art of medicine and the sacred obligation of being a physician. Read the rest
