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Advices for a healthy digestion

Here are some advices to ensure you have a healthy digestive system:

try to have moderate portions, as the stomach is having problems to digest when it has too much food;
chew each bite at least 20 times, in order to chop the food well and to stop the stomach from making too much digestive fluid;
drink at least 8 glasses of water a day, as people often mistake the hunger sensation with thirst sensation;
avoid loosening substances as they dehydrate the organism and eliminate nutrients;
exercise regularly, as it stimulates intestine muscles to contract;

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Advices for a healthy digestion

Here are some advices to ensure you have a healthy digestive system:

try to have moderate portions, as the stomach is having problems to digest when it has too much food;
chew each bite at least 20 times, in order to chop the food well and to stop the stomach from making too much digestive fluid;
drink at least 8 glasses of water a day, as people often mistake the hunger sensation with thirst sensation;
avoid loosening substances as they dehydrate the organism and eliminate nutrients;
exercise regularly, as it stimulates intestine muscles to contract;

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Champagne, heart protector

Consumed with moderationn by a healthy person (two glasses a day), champagne protects the hearth and blood vessels according to  Reading University specialists. The beneficial effect is due to the contained polyphenols and antioxidants. Polyphenols slow down the removal of nitric oxide from the blood, high nitric oxide levels in the blood increasing blood flow and decreasing blood pressure and blood clotting.
Champagne is the combination of two red grape varieties, pinot noir and pinot meunier, together with chardonnay variety, harvested from French champagne vineyards. Sparkling wines produced in other parts …

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Inhibiting the Fyn kinase might lead to new weight loss drug

A new weight loss method might save overweight people a lot of headaches.  Researchers discovered a way to trick the human body into consuming more energy by blocking a single enzyme. In this case they targeted an enzyme referred to as the Fyn kinase that indirectly controls the “energy master switch”.
According to the tests they performed on mice, those that lack the Fyn kinase burned more fatty acids and become leaner. Also they had increased insulin sensitivity.  To chemically inhibit the Fyn kinase the researchers used an experimental drug called …

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Brain anomaly could provoke SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome)

The Sudden Infant Death Syndrome which affects babies under a year could be caused by a brain anomaly – the serotonin deficit.  Serotonin, a monoamine neurotransmitter, is primarily found in the central nervous systems and in the gastrointestinal tract.
The researchers at Children’s Hospital Boston discovered that babies who died in their sleep had few serotonin receptors in their blood. The anomalies were discovered in the lower part of the brain, in the rachidian bulb.
Serotonin and the way it’s processed in the brain helps coordinate breathing, carbon dioxide sensibility, temperature sensibility, …

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Onion – therapeutic facts

Introduction
Onions (Allium cepa) belong to the Allium family, the same family as garlic, leeks, chives, scallions and shallots.Onion is one of the oldest vegetables and can be found in a large number of food recipes  spanning almost the totality of the world’s cultures, being the second most important horticultural crop after tomatoes. They are commonly used to flavor dips, salads, soups, spreads, stir-fry and other dishes.
Onion and other Allium vegetables are characterized by their rich content of thiosulfinates, sulfides, sulfoxides, and other odoriferous sulfur compounds. The cysteine sulfoxides are primarily …