Posts Tagged ‘antioxidant’
Prevention of Common Cold
The common cold is a viral disease, deceptively simple, which causes more severe in short days, there may be some symptoms for over a week. However, sometimes there is a serious involvement of the general statement that limits the patient’s physical performance, forcing him to stay in bed, muscle pains, malaise, cough, fever or feverishness, headache, and upset demonstrations and obstructive nasal mucus.
Those who live with suffering from cold should know that such alteration may be able to associate to a trajectory of some complexity. First, it is worth remembering that the elderly and children under one year are more prone to complications, also people with chronic respiratory diseases such as: bronchial asthma, bronchitis, pulmonary emphysema, chronic bronchitis or obstructive lung disease chronic COPD.
In such a cold can cause acute decompensation worsening of their symptoms, the colonization of the virus alone. In fact, before this type of circumstance must redouble observation.
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Tags: antibiotics, antioxidant, chronic respiratory diseases, Common Cold, immune dysfunction, influenza, pericarditis, pharyngitis, viral disease, virus | 
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Another Reason to Take A Good Black Tea
It has been known for some time that black tea has many healthy properties. Among its positive features include the be an effective antioxidant.
But now I just found one more to be added to the list: it could help control diabetes. This is published in a medical study released by the Institute of Food Technologists in its journal Journal of Food Science.
And it is worth remembering that the tea is, after water, the most widely consumed beverage worldwide.
To complete this good news, Chinese researchers Tianjin Key Laboratory studied the levels of polysaccharides from black tea, green and “oolong” (another variety) and compounds that can help diabetics as it helps slow the absorption metabolic glucose.
And what experts Laboratory found that the polysaccharide is black tea had significant inhibitory properties and glucose absorption.
Furthermore, it was also the variety of tea more effective against free radicals have.
Chen Haixia The researcher responsible for the work, said he found a powerful natural inhibitor of glucose and is an interesting potential for using black tea and its compounds in the management of diabetes.
Posted in Diabetes, Healthy Tips | Tags: antioxidant, Black Tea, Diabetes, free radicals, glucose, healthy properties of black tea, polysaccharide, polysaccharides, variety of tea | 3 Comments »