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10 Unhealthy Habits You Need To Break At SymptomFind. Herbal Medecine. Une étude reconnaît l’utilité de la naturopathie pour prévenir les maladies cardiaques. Le conseil d'un naturopathe peut améliorer le syndrome métabolique et aider à réduire le risque d'infarctus Voici une étude qui devrait mettre du baume au cœur des naturopathes, mal considérés en France par la médecine classique.

La consultation d’un naturopathe permettrait en effet de réduire la prévalence du syndrome métabolique, un facteur de risque de maladie cardiaque, de 17% sur un an, si l’on en croit les résultats d’un essai contrôlé randomisé. Le syndrome métabolique est une condition qui englobe au moins trois des anomalies suivantes : - Une obésité avec indice de masse corporelle supérieur à 30 kg/m² . - Un tour de taille supérieur à 102 cm chez l'homme, 88 cm chez la femme (avec un rapport tour de taille sur tour de hanches supérieur à 0,85 pour une femme et 0,9 pour un homme) - Un excès de triglycérides : plus de 1,45 g/l - Un taux de cholestérol HDL bas (<35 mg/dl chez l'homme et < 40 mg/dl chez la femme) - Une glycémie à jeun supérieure à 1,10 g/l Source D.

Every Leading Canadian Supermarket Chain Takes Stand Against Controversial Pig Cages. Health Benefits of Coconut Oil | Organic Coconut Oil | Organic Oils. The health benefits of coconut oil include hair care, skin care, stress relief, cholesterol level maintenance, weight loss, boosted immune system, proper digestion and regulated metabolism. It also provides relief from kidney problems, heart diseases, high blood pressure, diabetes, HIV, and cancer, while helping to improve dental quality and bone strength. These benefits of oil can be attributed to the presence of lauric acid, capric acid and caprylic acid, and their respective properties, such as antimicrobial, antioxidant, anti-fungal, antibacterial and soothing qualities. Coconut oil is used extensively in tropical countries especially India, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Philippines etc., which have a good production of coconut oil. At one time, the oil was also popular in western countries like the United States and Canada, but there was a strong propaganda campaign in the 1970s spread by the corn oil and soy oil industry against coconut oil.

How is lauric acid used by our body? Hair care: Summary | EWG's 2013 Shopper's Guide to Pesticides in Produce™ By Sonya Lunder, Senior Analyst Many shoppers don’t realize that pesticide residues are common on conventionally grown produce – even after it is carefully washed or peeled. EWG's analysis of tests by the U.S. Department of Agriculture found that nearly 70 percent of samples of conventionally grown produce were contaminated with pesticide residues.

The USDA tests found a total of 230 different pesticides and pesticide breakdown products on the thousands of produce samples analyzed. Twenty-five years after the National Academy of Sciences issued a landmark report raising concerns about children’s exposure to toxic pesticides through their diets, Americans still consume a mixture of pesticides every day. A recent study in JAMA Internal Medicine, a journal of the American Medical Association, found a surprising association between consuming high-pesticide-residue foods and fertility problems among participants in the Harvard University EARTH study.1 Highlights of the Dirty Dozen™ for 2018. You Can't Sequester Cancer. Cutting back on research is a deadly mistake. You can’t sequester cancer. You can only hurt the research to treat and prevent the diseases, and stop the treatments themselves. That is the message of 18,000 scientists gathered for the American Association for Cancer Research’s annual convention this week in Washington.

A rally for medical research with those thousands of scientists — usually wonky researchers poring over their microscopes — was held on the grounds of the Carnegie Library across from the Washington Convention Center. In rhythm to drumbeats, the scientists became political advocates as they chanted after each speaker, “More progress! More hope! More life!” Cancer is neither Democratic nor Republican.

When we sequester the research — stop it dead in its tracks so no additional scientific advances can be made — we are cutting off our nose to spite our face. The United States has been the leader in cancer research. Former Rep. The rally was not limited to cancer.