Pycnogenol for Menopause

Here's a surprising natural treatment for the symptoms of menopause. This novel study gave 100mg of pycnogenol or a placebo to 155 women for three and a half years. . . . 

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Curcumin Boosts Body's Front Line Defence

Curcumin, the active ingredient in turmeric, is a very effective antiinflammatory. It is one of the most promising anticancer agents and has shown potential in the fights against heart disease and AIDS. And now scientists have just published research that has discovered a new value to this already valuable herb. . . .

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Devil's Claw for Pain from Bad Back or Osteoarthritis

People suffering from lower back pain or from osteoarthritis were given the herb devil's claw for 54 weeks to see what effect it had on their pain. . . .

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Magnesium Prevents Strokes

A meta-analysis of seven studies has found that for every 100mg a day you increase your magnesium intake, . . . 

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Warding off More than Just Vampires: Garlic, Onions and Enlarged Prostate

Benign prostatic hyperplasia, or enlargement of the prostate, will affect half off all men in their lifetime. But a huge new study of diet suggests that it may not have to. . . .

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Vitamin D: Doing Battle With Cancer Again

Vitamin D just keeps proving itself against cancer. This time, researchers compared the blood levels of vitamin D in 1,394 postmenopausal women with breast cancer with the levels in 1,365 postmenopausal without. . . . 

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Garlic & Cholesterol: Reverse Decision

For years, garlic was recommended for lowering cholesterol. Then the research pendulum swung, and the concensus was, though good at preventing heart disease in other ways, garlic does not improve cholesterol. But now a meta-analysis of twenty-six placebo-controlled studies of people with high levels of fat in their blood has reversed that decision . . .

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Diet Helps Prevent Pancreatic Cancer

Pancreatic cancer is one of the cancers with the poorest prognosis. Since it is one of the hardest cancers to treat, prevention becomes even more important.

Research now shows that increasing the amount of fiber in your diet can help prevent pancreatic cancer. . . . 

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omega-3's Help Kids Fight Colds

598 kids were given either 900mg of plant source omega-3’s and 100mg seafood source omega-3’s or only 140mg of omega-3’s for a year. . . .
 

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Herb Research is of a Better Quality than Drug Research

Natural medicine’s critics used to say--and some who clearly don’t look at the literature still do--that there was no scientific research behind its claims. With the explosion of studies in the past several years, that criticism is no longer available. So the critics said that the research there was was of a lower quality than the research on drugs. So researchers put that criticism to the test . . .

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