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Cancer causing chemical found in KFC fries
Sunday, March 2, 2014
Cancer-causing chemical found in KFC fries? - Food has become one of the factors triggering cancer. Even now more and more dangerous cancer-causing chemicals found in cereal until KFC fries.
As reported by the Daily Mail, a chemical compound called acrylamide is formed precisely and carcinogenic - cancer causing - if roasted, baked, or fried in temperatures that are too high.
Party of the Food Standards Agency is conducting an examination of the 300 food chemistry to know what is contained in it.
According to researchers, a variety of foods such as salty chips could potentially cause cancer if consumed regularly for life. Tuc biscuits for example, one of the foods containing acrylamide and fries his samples obtained from KFC Congleton, Connecticut, United States.
Meanwhile, the highest content of carcinogenic chemical found in salted potato chips Seabrooks Sea Salted. In total, there are at least 14 food such as cereals and other chips that contain harmful chemicals.
What lessons can be drawn from the results of the investigation? Of course you should be more caul in choosing the food consumed. But if it has been like unhealthy foods, try to reduce consumption gradually.
As reported by the Daily Mail, a chemical compound called acrylamide is formed precisely and carcinogenic - cancer causing - if roasted, baked, or fried in temperatures that are too high.
Party of the Food Standards Agency is conducting an examination of the 300 food chemistry to know what is contained in it.
According to researchers, a variety of foods such as salty chips could potentially cause cancer if consumed regularly for life. Tuc biscuits for example, one of the foods containing acrylamide and fries his samples obtained from KFC Congleton, Connecticut, United States.
Meanwhile, the highest content of carcinogenic chemical found in salted potato chips Seabrooks Sea Salted. In total, there are at least 14 food such as cereals and other chips that contain harmful chemicals.
What lessons can be drawn from the results of the investigation? Of course you should be more caul in choosing the food consumed. But if it has been like unhealthy foods, try to reduce consumption gradually.
Vitamin D Omega 3 May Help Clear Amyloid Plaques Found in Alzheimers
Friday, January 24, 2014
A team of academic researchers has pinpointed how vitamin D3 and omega-3 fatty acids may enhance the immune systems ability to clear the brain of amyloid plaques, one of the hallmarks of Alzheimers disease.
In a small pilot study published in the Feb. 5 issue of the Journal of Alzheimers Disease, the scientists identified key genes and signaling networks regulated by vitamin D3 and the omega-3 fatty acid DHA (docosahexaenoic acid) that may help control inflammation and improve plaque clearance.
Previous laboratory work by the team helped clarify key mechanisms involved in helping vitamin D3 clear amyloid-beta, the abnormal protein found in the plaque. The new study extends the previous findings with vitamin D3 and highlights the role of omega-3 DHA.
"Our new study sheds further light on a possible role for nutritional substances such as vitamin D3 and omega-3 in boosting immunity to help fight Alzheimers," said study author Dr. Milan Fiala, a researcher at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.
For the study, scientists drew blood samples from both Alzheimers patients and healthy controls, then isolated critical immune cells called macrophages from the blood. Macrophages are responsible for gobbling up amyloid-beta and other waste products in the brain and body.
The team incubated the immune cells overnight with amyloid-beta. They added either an active form of vitamin D3 called 1alpha,25–dihydroxyvitamin D3 or an active form of the omega-3 fatty acid DHA called resolvin D1 to some of the cells to gauge the effect they had on inflammation and amyloid-beta absorption.
Both 1alpha, 25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 and resolvin D1 improved the ability of the Alzheimers disease patients macrophages to gobble-up amyloid-beta, and they inhibited the cell death that is induced by amyloid-beta. Researchers observed that each nutrition molecule utilized different receptors and common signaling pathways to do this.
Previous work by the team, based on the function of Alzheimers patients macrophages, showed that there are two groups of patients and macrophages. In the current study, researchers found that the macrophages of the Alzheimers patients differentially expressed inflammatory genes, compared with the healthy controls, and that two distinct transcription patterns were found that further define the two groups: Group 1 had an increased transcription of inflammatory genes, while Group 2 had decreased transcription. Transcription is the first step leading to gene expression.
"Further study may help us identify if these two distinct transcription patterns of inflammatory genes could possibly distinguish either two stages or two types of Alzheimers disease," said study author Mathew Mizwicki, an assistant researcher at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.
While researchers found that 1alpha,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 and resolvin D1 greatly improved the clearance of amyloid-beta by macrophages in patients in both groups, they discovered subtleties in the effects the two substances had on the expression of inflammatory genes in the two groups. In Group 1, the increased-inflammation group, macrophages showed a decrease of inflammatory activation; in Group 2, macrophages showed an increase of the inflammatory genes IL1 and TLRs when either 1alpha,25-Dihydroxyvitamin D3 or resolvin D1 were added.
More study is needed, Fiala said, but these differences could be associated with the severity of patients nutritional and/or metabolic deficiencies of vitamin D3 and DHA, as well as the omega-3 fatty acid EPA (eicosapentaenoic acid).
"We may find that we need to caully balance the supplementation with vitamin D3 and omega-3 fatty acids, depending on each patient in order to help promote efficient clearing of amyloid-beta," Fiala said. "This is a first step in understanding what form and in which patients these nutrition substances might work best."
According to Fiala, an active (not oxidized) form of omega-3 DHA, which is the precursor of the resolvin D1 used in this study, may work better than more commercially available forms of DHA, which generally are not protected against the oxidation that can render a molecule inactive.
Natural Compound Found in Coffee Slows Alzheimer’s Disease Progression
Friday, January 10, 2014
Health-conscious individuals will want to consider drinking several cups of java each day to dramatically lower the risk of developing Alzheimer`s disease and preserve precious memories that can be stolen as the disease progresses.
Compound Found in Coffee Beans Protects Against Cognitive Decline
The study demonstrated that caffeine consumption is an important part of the protective nature of coffee, but another yet unidentified chemical is required to maximize the effect. No protection against Alzheimer`s disease was found with consumption of decaffeinated coffee. Lead study author, neuroscientist Dr. Chuanhai Cao commented “Caffeinated coffee provides a natural increase in blood GCSF levels”.
Coffee Consumption Shown to Increase Neuron Development
The study authors identified three critical ways that increased levels of the protective protein GCSF improve memory performance. GCSF encourages stem cells from the bone marrow to enter the brain and remove harmful beta-amyloid clusters that are the hallmark of disease progression. Further, GCSF helps to create new connections between brain cells and increases the number of new neurons in the brain. Any natural compound that promotes the release of this protein complex will protect against the development of Alzheimer`s disease.
Caffeinated coffee consumption is safe for the vast majority of adults. The study authors concluded “We see no reason why an inherently natural product such as coffee cannot be more beneficial and safer than medications, especially to protect against a disease that takes decades to become apparent after it starts in the brain.” Five cups of coffee each day may provide a protective shield against this devastating form of dementia.
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