Meditation Technique Helps Lower BP
Transcendental meditation in an effective alternative to blood pressure-lowering medication, according to the results of a study involving African Americans. People may choose to try to lower their blood pressure naturally, “but it matters what you do,” study author Dr Robert H. Schneider of the Maharishi University of Management in Iowa. “Not everything has the [...]
Evercise and balanced diet best precautions against stroke!
Exercise and a balanced diet are the best precautions against strokes, notes the Berlin-based German Neurological Society (DGN). Citing a recent US study that showed vitamins to be ineffective at reducing the risk of strokes or heart attacks, it advised against regularly taking vitamins C and E to help prevent vascular disease. The study was [...]
Experts draw link between tainted milk, kidney stones
HONG KONG (Reuters) – Scientists in China and Hong Kong have established for the first time in a study that consuming the plastic-making chemical melamine can cause kidney stones in people. At least six children died and 290,000 fell ill in China last year after consuming milk formula tainted with melamine, which was added to [...]
Why was melamine used in milk products?
Melamine is a chemical used to produce plastic products. However, when melamine was mixed with watered-down milk it make it appears richer in protein than it actually is.
Melamine in milk products from New Zealand
South Korean authorities have found trace amounts of melamine in milk products imported from New Zealand that were used in baby formula and banned their import, its food safety agency said on Thursday.The Korea Food and Drug Administration said in a statement that the product, lactoferrin, was produced by Tatua Cooperative Diary Company of New [...]
