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Dairy Defends Against Stroke Posted on 2012-05-14 06:00:01 in Functional Foods | Stroke |

In that high blood pressure (hypertension) is a strong predictor of stroke, a number of previous studies have suggested that proteins in milk products help to lower blood pressure, and that Vitamin D present in dairy products may do the same.  Susanna C. Larsson, from the Karolinska Institute (Sweden), and colleagues analyzed data collected on subjects enrolled in the Swedish Mammography Cohort and Cohort of Swedish Men, which both included detailed dietary questionnaire data and long-term follow-up through national healthcare records.  Among the nearly 75,000 men and women free of cardiovascular disease and cancer at baseline in those studies, just over 4,000 had a stroke during the mean 10.2 years of follow-up. I

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What do movie star Natalie Portman, TV host/comedian Ellen DeGeneres, Spiderman Tobey Maguire, Glee star Lea Michele, musician Alanis Morissette, former President Bill Clinton, and the Four Season Hotel Los Angeles at Beverly Hills have in common? They are all Vegan. And… as of last week, I am going vegan too (here’s my favorite vegan breakfast).

Its not just people who are doing it, restaurants and hotels are creating vegan menus to accommodate the growing demand. Were not just talking salads here.

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Women who are obese before pregnancy have an elevated risk of bearing children who get relatively low grades in school, U.S. researchers say.

Lead author Rika Tanda, a doctoral candidate in nursing at Ohio State University, used data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 Mother and Child Survey, a nationally representative sample of men and women ages 14-21 in December 1978.

Tanda collected information on 3,412 children born to the women who were studied.

The researchers gauged the children’s cognitive function based on their performance on Peabody Individual Achievement Test reading recognition and math assessments. T

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At pregnancy week 21, your hormone levels are stabilized and you are now more balanced and sensible. Your pregnancy is much more obvious and visible during this stage. Fortunately, gone are the days when comfort and style can not be mixed together. There are many clothes for would-be mothers that are stylish, comfortable and still very cheap.

Your uterus is about 1/2 inch above your navel and now you must have gained about 10 to 15 pounds. Do not worry too much if you have to say good-bye to your waistline. As long as you eat a very healthy diet and you get plenty of water every day, you do not really pay too much attention to scale. Full Article…