Archive for January, 1970

Crush your garlic before you cook it or eat it raw

When you crush garlic it releases an enzyme, alliinase, that catalyzes the formation of allicin, which then breaks down to form a variety of healthful organosulfur compounds. Cutting it may help but is not as effective as crushing it. Crushing garlic releasing useful substance has been known for some time, but a study lead by Claudio Galmarini and colleagues at the Institute of Nutrition and

Life Insurance Policy

You may be very careful about your diet and other aspect of fitness and health and reduce your chance of getting sick, but really there is no guarantee of freedom from illness or death. One may fall sick anytime, and if the one who fall sick is the financial provider of the family, this may have a devastating effect on the family. This is why having an insurance policy is important. Life

Medication, personal injury and the law

Have you or someone you love been prescribed medication or exposed to harmful substances and has suffered personal injury as a result? If so, you may want to consider filing a law suit against the firm that produced the medication or the person or firm who caused you to be exposed to the harmful substance or caused you injury by negligence. However, a big impediment to filling lawsuit is the

Food for rheumatoid arthritis

If you suffer from rheumatoid arthritis, it may pay you to study if you have any food allergy. An article "Rheumatoid Arthritis and Food: a Case Study" in the respectable British Medical Journal describe the ordeals of a 38 year old woman. Ms X suffered from rheumatoid arthritis for 11 years. The joints of her arms, legs and hips were severely inflamed and swollen. She had no had grip and can

How one man cured himself of depression by changing his diet

Brian Godfrey first started experiencing depression when he was a teenager and although he tried everything from drugs to psychotherapy, suffered chronic depression for about 40 years. "It was terrible, I would wake up in the morning with a fuzzy head and just could not get going. I felt tired and depressed. Some days it would be so bad I would lay in bed crying." He even thought of suicide.