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I hope that you must have heard of the vegetable Broccoli which is also known as Brassica Oleracea or Brassica italica. The latter two are the names which most of us are not familiar. This vegetable is full of nutritional values also Broccoli has amazing ability of therapeutic powers. Normally women eat this vegetable as men don't like it also Broccoli is used to fight against Breast Cancer for women. Broccoli is you can say cousin of Cauliflower, which is also full of mineral and vitamins deposit. Let us digg some more on the Term Broccoli. The Broccoli vegetable is grown in Calabria, Italy, so italy is the home land of Broccoli. The word Broccoli comes from the Iltalian language "brachium" which stands for "branch or Arm". In the 8th century when there was the Roman Empire was on it's full rise, Broccoli was very famous vegetable in Roman Empire, later when immigrants from Italy came to America they also brought this gift to the America. It was in year o...

Today I was reading on HIV/AIDS treatment and I found a fascinating news about the new treatment. There was a conference which was held in Chicago, the name of conference was " Inter-science  Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy".  According to the researchers they said that they have found a way to protect the T-Cells through cell based therapy, when HIV/AIDS virus attacks the human body it's primary target is T-cells.  Scientists have found a way to protect the T-cells from HIV/AIDS virus. What I have found is that the CEO of Sangamo's who is Edward says in these words " The data are very encouraging"  and I hope so it's the case :).

In the world there are lots of home made remedies, some remedies work some don't work. So I have created a list which can help to understand that weather which home remedy works or not. So here we go :) 1. America: Chicken Soup To Fight Cold When ever it's cold many Americans go for Chicken soup and Americans believe that chicken soup helps to fight cold. But is it really that effective or just a myth ? According to one study done by  University of Nebraska that when one drinks chicken soup the white blood cells move at 75% increased rate which can help to reduce the infection dramatically. So drink up as much as chicken soup in winter because it works. 2 . When Bee Stings Native Americans Use Garlic To Reduce The Pain When some one gets sting by bee, if garlic is rubbed on the infected area it reduces the pain and stops the swelling. According to Ranella who is clinical assistant professor at Boston University that it's true. So when ever bee stings you again r...

There are times when you no one is home and you are your own in the kitchen. You are making some salad for yourself and when slicing the tomatoes you also slice your finger. Now at this time lots of question pop up in mind that weather you should apply bandage on it or go to the ER, or go to Walmart, CVS. The first thing you should do is to go to these CVS or Walmart as these also have drop-in medical clinics that can help you out with your situation as they contain nurses, physicians and even sometime doctors. In these situations they can help you out but if they think that you really need to go to ER they will tell you. If you have medical insurance, then there is chance that your medical insurance company might also contain 24/7 nurse hotline, which in many cases can become very useful. There are many who don't have any health insurance if this is the case then you can go to findahealthcenter.hrsa.gov, now this website can help you find federally f...

Hepatitis is a disease, where virus attacks only liver and as a result causing inflammation of liver. When a person is diagnosed with Hepatitis A,B,C which ever it may be, a fear comes in mind. There is at the moment no cure for Hepatitis but only treatments are available which can suppress the infection. I myself was diagnosed with Hepatitis A, I got my self scared lots of question started to pop up, for which I had no answers. There are lots of things which I learnt during this disease in terms of treating this disease. I want to share my personal experience with you so that it will help anyone who has hepatitis, and what to do when you get hepatitis. 1. Don't be afraid when you get diagnosed with this Hepatitis. 2. Diet is most important factor in getting rid of this disease. The specific food items which I found to be useful are: a) Boiled Rice. b) Boiled Vegetables. c) Small quantities of fruits but no Mango included. d) Boiled water, drinking after each...

Medical patients facing a cancer diagnosis should be aware that traditional medical treatment is not their only option. Alternative therapies such as emotional freedom technique (EFT), healing touch, and intuitive bodywork have a place in cancer treatment as well. Known as energy healing, these alternative healing therapies can benefit cancer patients in a number of important ways. They help patients cope with the emotional and spiritual aspects of living with cancer such as rare diseases like mesothelioma as well as the physical side effects (pain, fatigue, nausea, and vomiting) that can really take their toll on a person's health. Patients typically feel a tremendous loss of control when they discover they have cancer. EFT and other healing therapies give them a renewed sense of being in control. When integrated with standard medical treatment, alternative therapies offer hope to cancer patients. Even those with the most serious cases are most likely faced with an ...

I found a link of video, where Muslim scientist confirmed the cure for AIDS. It's a must see video, because Bayer has invested into it a lot. If you don't know about Bayer, you have to Google it. Ok, so here is the link to the video, but to watch video you have to get registered at their site, then you are able to see the video. Takes only 2 min to register, I hope that you will learn from it. Video Link 1. http://www.memritv.org/clip/en/1889.htm

Kidneys are most important part of our body. Kidneys purify blood and maintain chemical balance in the body. Kidneys have the ability to remove toxins and extra water in the form of Urine. Kidneys resemble to Black eye pea or bean and is almost equal to closed hand in the form of punch. Kidneys lie almost in the middle of back and below the rib cage. It's a very perfect reprocessing machine. In one day kidneys purify 200 quart of blood from toxin and extra water. Blood gets toxicated because of food and continous work in cells. When our body gets the required food from blood, then remanings are added as discharge to blood. If kidneys don't remove this toxin, this toxin becomes poison for the body. Kidneys filter the blood through small holes called Nephron. Each individual kidney contains 1 million Nephron's. Inside each Nephron there is web of blood tubes called Glomerulus, which is connected to Tubule ( which collects urine ). Blood is purified by passing through this...

Whenever a patient goes to doctor, he/she has some basic responsibilities that must be kept in mind. Just like doctor has responsibility, similarly patients also have responsibilities. If you want to know about these responsibilities then keep on reading. 1. If you have an appointment with the doctor, then come on schedule. It's better to come fifteen minutes before the actual time. If by any reason you cannot come at specified time, tell the receptionist about the situation. This is to make sure that no one gets frustrated by your late coming. Many doctors don't give appointments because they know that patient will not come on time or if patient does manages to come (not on time), patient tries to get first to the doctor, which is kind of frustrating for others. 2. Doctor will ask you about your condition, which is known as taking history. You should go prepared for this. Which condition started when, you should know about it. If you think that you might forget abou...

What is Scoliosis ? Scoliosis is a medical term for spine, where spine takes the form of "S" or "C", it's bent toward left or to the right, it can be outward or can be inward, in any way spine is not straight anymore. If you go to Mayoclinic website, at there doctors define it as being abnormal curvature of spine. Exercises for Scoliosis  There are different exercises designed to help and end the scoliosis pain.  These can be stretching exercises, yoga, lower, middle and upper back exercises. 1. Yoga  Yoga is considered to be one of the best exercises in scoliosis. Yoga helps our body to be stretched, and this stretching is the basis for bringing spine to it's original form. These yoga exercise include Supine leg out ( In case you don't know what supine is below is an example of supine form ), Supine knee twist, making back passively in the position of arc, the crocodile twist ( you lie on your back on the floor, then you twist half of your l...

All of us must be familiar with the word "Meditate" where you try to understand yourself by sitting in a quiet room. But very less know about Mediterranean diet, and if you are woman and you are on Mediterranean diet you can live upto 15 years more and if you are a male you can expect to live 8 years more.  So what is Mediterranean diet ?  Mediterranean diet is a combination of vegetables ( any vegetable), nuts, fish, meat, olive oil, fruits along with very small amount of alcohol. If you are doing excercise daily and if you combine this basic food combination to your daily diet provided the condition that you don't smoke you can expect to live longer as much as 15 years. According to the study which was done in Netherlands at the university of Maastricht under the supervision of Piet van den brandt, who is epidemiology professor, observed almost 120,000 men and women together whose age ranged from 55 to 69 years during the year of 1986 and yes this was ten year stu...

According to new study which is published in FASEB journal, nicotine actually helps in preventing Parkinson's disease, nicotine works by making a shield around Dopamine neurons found in brain. This is a break through because it will help to unravel the new treatments. According to the Patrick Michel, who is the joint author of institute du cerveau et de la Moelle Epiniere, Hospital de la Salpetriere, which is in Paris said that " This study will raise the hope to help the patients with Parkinson disease at an early stage or yet even at that stage where this disease is not apparent." So in my opinion we should include some amount of nicotine in our diet through the use of coffee or tea, but not through cigarette definetely not through cigarettes. Till then stay healthy by eating healthy foods.  

Those who smoke, once in there life time they do desire that they never had started smoking. Why people smoke ? Through my own personal experience from colleagues, friends, family members. People smoke because they want to get through that " Hard Time ". Hard time can be your studies, assignments, night shift job, you want to stay awake, you want a boost in your working, it can be any excuse which makes you to do smoking. According to statistics of smoking, there are nearly seventy percent of all smokers who want to quit smoking. This year 2011 forty percent of total smokers will try to quit smoking, by different methods like using nicotine patches, gums, cold turkey etc.  Smokers know that quit smoking is very difficult because of the cravings that occur which is very intense that can last up to three months, that makes them believe that it's impossible. One thing that you should keep in mind is that quitting depend...

Whether you are doing job with deadlines, doing assignments of university, studying late at nights, coping with colleague, dealing with day to day chores, chances are always there that you will feel depressed due to demands made on you. We do lot's of things to reduce the depression by doing gym, taking medicines, taking coffee, doing dance, but most of the time we don't look at our diet which can help dramatically to reduce our depression after all if you take coffee or tea it helps to reduce depression, right ? So same concept apply's to diet, it has effect to build up muscles, grow fat, make us tall, our hair growth, and even make reduce or end the depression. If you eat meat, fish meat, pulses, eggs, or any other source from where you can get protein this will help you fight the depression. According to Ursula who is chairman of BDA ( British Dietetic Association ), he says that taking tryptophan which is one of basic building blocks of protein can help...

According to researcher at "The Lancet" they published a issue on Friday, they say that a drug, known as Rilpivirine can help control the HIV when it is combined with other drugs, it can't cure HIV/AIDS yet, but it can greatly suppress the HIV infection. This drug which is produced by Tibotec which is very famous pharmaceutical company and drug is marketed under the name of Edurant. Tibotec says that this drug is safe and effective, and it has very less side effects when it is compared with Efavirenz, which is presently used to suppress the HIV infection. In May 2011 this drug was approved by FDA ( United States Food and Drug Administration ). From 1981 to present the HIV/AIDS has taken almost thirty million lives so far, this drug Rilpivirine can be a new mile stone in fight against HIV/AIDS.

There are lots of individuals which have constant problem of Gastric, Constipation and acidity, and this is a real problem, lot's of doctor tell that this is due to Gallbladder problem and If you can't get recover from medicine than the option comes of removing of Gallbladder which I don't recommend you when there is a solution. Let's come to the solution. Remember if you have constant problem of gastric, constipation and acidity then you can act on this, even if you do act on this food pattern when you don't have any disease it won't hurt you in any way. Breakfast 1. Take 2 to 3 eggs poked or boiled any style is O.K. 2. Then take Tea with it. ( It's a must only tea no coffee ). Lunch 1. Get some Ghee/Butter Fat. 2. Then cook any thing in it, it can be Chicken, meat, vegetable anything you like just remember don't take bread with it. Dinner 1. Take 30-40 pieces of Almonds. Put them in water so that you can easily peal off the skin of Almo...

As a busy working day, can put you in the position of not have too much time to go to the gym. Many wish to use the room as a fitness to carry out simple activities, also to achieve fitness and weight-loss results.The following recipe will not only help you relieve the day's fatigue, unexpected weight-loss long-term effects persist in this method. 1. Clap your Feet Put a pillow under your abdominal part, support the lower jaw with the help of hands, keep your legs straight, now raise your left leg then bring it down now  at the same time lift your other leg touching both feet on the way . Not only interesting but also help you lose thigh fat. Do it for a few times. 2. Carrying Pillow Exercise Lie on your bed straight, arms wide open, legs straight. Now pick up the pillow with your legs and keep lifting till you achieve the 90 degree angle, keep this position for about 10 to 15 seconds. This is the best thigh exercise to remove the fat from thigh. 3. Raising heads lie,...

If you are fat or you want to lose weight in a very good way then this is the right topic. The following exercises will help you relax your muscles completely, help you to lose your all day's fatigue and this also can help you to lose weight.  1. Knee by chest movement exercise Lying in bed, legs straight, lift right leg, hands clinging to thighs. Pull your knees to the chest until you feel the thigh muscle was stretched. Maintain this action for 5-10 seconds. Then raise your head, the forehead close to the knee. And then to maintain 5-10 seconds, then slowly return to starting position. Switch legs and repeat. 3-5 times each leg. 2. Exercise to lose weight before going to bed II: tuck Sports Lying in bed, legs straight, lift your legs, hands around the thigh. Maintain this position for 5-10 seconds. Then raise your head, the forehead close to the knees, keeping the same 5-10 seconds, then slowly return to starting position. Repeat 3-5 times. 3. Exercise to lose weig...

Spring is an opportune time to lose weight,  many women want to be successful in the summer before the onset of weight loss. Here are few simple methods that can help you put you back in shape in spring season. 1.  A simple method of exercise to lose weight, walk around   If you think running , rope skipping ,swimming and other aerobic exercise too much trouble, then you might want to consider your self for at least walking.  Such as the first Rush 3 minutes (80-100 meters per minute) and then stop, turn left across two big, squat, and then right across the two big, squat, for 1 minute.   And then use the heel to walk, can enhance the muscles in front of the tibia, walking natural swing arms on both sides.   Walking and stretching can also relaxation exercises for 5-10 minutes, as the rest and relaxation. 2.  Simple exercise to lose weight; Kite Flying Doing Kite flying  is also a useful exercise in s...

So the summer is here and you want to lose weight fast ? Because in summer there will be miniskirts, shorts and you are very tense to reduce the weight ? Worry not here are some simple exercises that will help you lose weight.  1. Weight Loss Massage   In this method you apply the massage cream to different body parts. Way to draw a circle by hand and gently massage. Massage for 20 minutes a day, and slowly you can see the results. Message also helps circulate the blood flow. 2. Sit-ups To Lose Weight The slower the better to sit-ups, do 10-20 times a day, morning and evening, can reduce the waistline by 3 cm! Efficacy: help fat burning, abdominal become tight. Your way to burn more fat. 3. Interactive Weight Loss Squat Jump The interaction between squat jump exercise every day 30-50, after one month you can feel the gradual reduction of fat in the muscle has become strong. Continued exercise will help burn fat. 4. Jump Rope Weight Loss   Rope skipping is t...

S-curve is the desire of every woman. Here are some of the great tips and exercises for you that can make you like S . 1. T ight Buttocks Stand  firm buttocks ,  legs open as far as possible to do step, knees, the body centre of gravity, legs spread, toes slightly outward, do hold ball with both hands on his chest, take a deep breath, hold the position for 5 seconds clock back to the starting position.   Repeat several times. This is very easy to create a beautiful bottom.  Lateral: left leg straight to the left, under pressure right leg, stretching the body  centre  of gravity to the right, like keeping big arm around the ball.   Repeated several times and back edges. 2. S lender Legs standing body as inverted position.   Hands on the floor, just on the right leg before the structure was three.   Straight right leg left leg while stretching to the ceiling.   Then down the left leg back to starting position.  ...