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Christopher Weidner, Jens C. de Groot, Aman Prasad, Anja Freiwald, Claudia Quedenau, Sascha Sauer, et al. “Amorfrutins are potent antidiabetic dietary natural products.” PNAS, April 16, 2012.
Exercising on a coastal shoreline delivers the greatest positive feelings of enjoyment, calmness, and refreshment.
Much of the cancer burden in the US could be reduced via reduced tobacco use, improved diet, more exercise, weight loss, and screening tests.
A greater consumption of sugar-sweetened and low-calorie sodas associates with a higher risk of stroke.
French National Institute of Health and Medical Research (INSERM) releases data suggesting how long Europeans can expect to live without disability.
Exercise reduces risk of death from cardiovascular disease, among people with high blood pressure (hypertension).
Adjunctive naturopathic care lowers blood sugar levels and improves mood, among people with type-2 diabetes.
The green leafy vegetable watercress may reduce markers of oxidative stress and damage after exhaustive exercise.
Found in the root of liquorice, amorfrutins exert anti-inflammatory effects and may hold potential to help manage blood sugar levels.
Omega-3 fatty acids may improve cognitive functioning, presumably by increasing cerebral blood flow.
Testosterone supplementation improves walking, oxygen consumption, fasting glucose, and insulin, in patients with heart failure.
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267. DASH for Your Brain
The DASH (Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension) diet, which emphasizes low-fat dairy products, fruits and vegetables, is a common potential dietary recommendation for blood pressure reduction. Duke University Medical Center (North Carolina, USA) researchers have reported that the DASH diet improves mental activity, in overweight adults with high blood pressure. The team enrolled 144 overweight (BMI of 25 to 40 kg/m2) men and women...
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Whereas the nuclear receptor PPAR-gamma (peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma) plays a central role in lipid and glucose metabolism, the PPAR- gamma -targeting drugs currently available have undesirable side effects. As a result, scientists are exploring n ingestible natural products as potential nutritional interventions. Sascha Sauer, from the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics (Germany), and colleagues identified that amorfrutins, found in the root of liquorice, as well as in the fruit of the Amorpha fruticosa bush, exert anti-inflammatory effects, as well as a potential to help manage blood sugar levels. Specifically, the team observed that, in an animal model, “amorfrutin treatment strongly improves insulin resistance and other metabolic and inflammatory parameters without concomitant increase of fat storage or other unwanted side effects such as hepatoxicity.” Remarking that teas of liquorice will not deliver a therapeutic dose of amorfrutins, the team has developed a special extraction process to maximize the amorfrutins yielded from the source plants.