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Top 10 probiotic foods

Health is an expensive thing nowadays. This perception is true if you consider that the cost that you pay for health care and treatment are always higher each period. That is why it is needed to maintain your health so that you do not need to go to doctors and pay your money a lot. There is abundance of healthy life style which can be followed in easy way. When you are talking about healthy life style, it is possible that you directly think about having diet. It is normal because most people know that diet is the most effective way to reduce your fat substances in your body. Still, there is another way to refrain your body from chemical and synthetic supplements. The solution is consuming probiotic foods in your days. Probiotic foods are foods which are made with any additions of certain good bacteria. Afterwards with certain fermentation process, your foods are available to consume. Take a look at 10 healthy foods of this site.

There are top 10 probiotic foods with safety of probiotics which can be menus on your day. The first is yogurt. You can easily find yogurt in stores and other places. Yogurt is made from goat or cow milk. This milk is infused by the use of probiotics such as lactobacillus, acidophilus, and others. The second one is Kefir. Kefir is similar to yogurt. But, this goat milk fermentation product is completed with the addition of fermented grains. The next one is Sauerkraut. Different from the previous probiotic foods, this food is made from fermented cabbage. This food is really good to reduce allergy. Another one is dark chocolate. In fact, this chocolate is not only delicious to consume in bar or a cup of melted dark chocolate but it also healthy. The next one is microalgae which are made from ocean-based plants. Then, the next is miso soup. Miso soup is traditional soup from Japan. Another one is pickles. It is true that pickles are not only easy to make but also healthy to consume. The other ones are tempeh, kimchi from korea, and kombucha tea. By consuming these foods, you will have potential health benefits of probiotics into your body. Read more!

Parasite in Cats’ Bellies can Cause Brain Tumors

Parasite Cats’ BelliesScientists have recently warned that cats may be spreading brain cancer to their owners through the parasite that breeds in their stomach.

The parasite named Toxoplasma gondii is suspected to be one of the unknown causes of brain cancer, which claims more than 3,500 lives a year in the UK in its various guises. This parasite is known to be carried by around a third of the world’s population deep inside the brains and has been linked to personality changes in both human and animals. It is also known to have a complicated lifecycle as it can only breed inside cats and pass their microscopic eggs as well as spreading the infection through their feces.

To avoid the infection caused by the parasite, pregnant women are advised not to empty cat litter trays as it can be fatal to unborn babies as well as causing health risks to other people.
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Popular Myths about Cancer Causes

Myths Cancer CausesWe know that there are couple factors which can cause cancer, but unfortunately some people are taking them exaggeratedly and later cause several myths about the causes of this disease. Some of these myths even make some people overly worried about their own health or those who live around them.

To avoid the panic caused by those myths, here are some explanations related to them as revealed in MayoClinic.com, by a cancer specialist of Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, Timothy Moynihan, MD.

Deodorants or antiperspirant products can cause breast cancer
Although such products contain harmful substances like parabens and aluminum compounds that can be absorbed through the skin or enter the body through shaving nicks, there is no clinical study yet which proves whether these products can cause breast cancer or not. So, these kinds of statements are actually myths. Read more!

What You Need to Know about Ovarian Cancer

about Ovarian CancerOvarian cancer is still known as the ‘silent killer’ since the symptoms are left unnoticed until it is spread to other body parts. Therefore, it is important for us to know more about this disease so we can be more aware of it.

When detected early, the chance to treat this cancer should be higher. Although according to research, only about 20 percent of ovarian cancer symptoms can be acknowledged before the growth of tumor spreading away from the ovaries. It is expected that early cancer detection can improve the life expectancy of the patients before the cancer cells grow and spread to other parts of the body

Ovarian cancer has no specific symptoms like indigestion or bladder abnormality, so it is quite difficult to recognize the condition of cancer at an early stage.
A woman with ovarian cancer can be diagnosed by comparing her current condition with the previous state before she finally realized that she has cancer. Read more!

Avoid Smoking = Avoid Cancer

Smoking = CancerIt is actually obvious that smoking will cause no good to our health. It will not only give the smokers negative effects, but those who are not smoking will also get the bad impact.

According to Dr Aulia Sani, SpJP(K), FJCC, FIHA, FAsCC, a cardiac disease specialist, about 30 percent of cigarette smoke is inhaled by the smokers themselves, while 70 percent is shared to others through the air. Dr Aulia, who calls the smokers selfish, also revealed that even within the short term, the negative impact of smoking can already be recognized – it can cause cough and slightly increase the blood pressure. For longer term, smoking can cause other chronic disease such as heart disease and cancer.

There are various hazardous chemical compounds contained in cigarette smokes such as nicotine, tar and asphalt. These make the passive smokers (the non-smokers who inhale cigarette smokes) share the same risk as the active smokers, as Read more!

Ways to Reduce the Risk of Cancer caused by Mobile Phone Radiation

Risk Cancer Phone RadiationAlthough the impact of mobile phone radiation to human health is still quite controversial, we can make some efforts to reduce its effects on us.

Here are some of them:

Use a set of handsfree or bluetooth – these wireless devices will allow you to communicate using your mobile phone without a direct contact with your head. The distance between the signal transmission and your head will reduce the effect of radiation to your brain. Although wireless devices like bluetooth has its own radiation effect, it is much more harmless compared to the one which is caused by the phone.

Use text messaging service more often than phone calls – when you receive a text message, the position of your head to Read more!

Cheese are Assumed to Increase the Risk of Bladder Cancer

Cheese Increase Bladder CancerFor all the cheese fans, you should now aware to this tasty and actually healthy food. Because there is an effect recently observed that the saturated fat found in dairy products can make cancer cells work faster.

Who wouldn’t love consuming cheese? For all this times we know that this tasty food is the best companion of cakes, spaghetti, soup, and various desserts. Not only well known for its deliciousness, as it is produced from fresh cows’ milk, we also know that cheese contains a good amount of calcium which is good to maintain the health of our bones as well as the growth of our teeth.

But after a research conducted in the Netherlands, it was found that cheese can increase the risk of bladder cancer. The fact is related to the cheese consumption with the amount of over 53 grams per day. Different from the fat produced by olive oil, which can actually protect our body, the saturated fat found in dairy products like cheese can make the cancer Read more!

Is There a ‘Wonder Drug’ that Could Kill All Types of Cancer?

a ‘Wonder Drug’According to British scientists as told to Dailymail, a breast cancer ‘wonder drug’ that could be a weapon to fight tumors have been discovered. The scientists of Newcastle University have recently found a way of making a family of breast cancer pills to effectively fight against other cancers. Another good news about this drug, its side effects such as nausea and tiredness should be minimal.

The drug contains PARP inhibitors, which affect the way tumors cells repair themselves. It is actually contained in a family of cancer drugs as they target hereditary forms of breast cancer, as well as ovarian prostate cancers and pancreatic tumors with the same rogue gene.

The drugs become the particular interest to doctors because they kill the tumor without harming healthy cells. In other words, the patients who consume the drug will suffer fewer side effects compared with the one they would get from the treatments of chemotherapy or radiotherapy. Read more!

Consume Papaya to Prevent Cancer

Papaya Prevent CancerAmong the fruits which are known to give various benefits, papaya has lately categorized as one of those super-fruits for its benefit in preventing cancer. This fruit contains lycophene, a nutrition which can effectively prevent and fight cancer cells from spreading. The substance can stimulate the cells’ immunity inside our body to fight cancer so the damage of DNA and lipid can be prevented, and the spread of cancer cells can be inhibited.

Researchers of University of Florida found that papaya can be an anti-cancer agent which could effectively fight against cervical cancer, breast, liver, lung, and pancreas cancer. The conclusion was made after performing a test using certain tea made of dry papaya leaves extract. And from the test, it was found that papaya can increase the production of chemical substance which regulates the body’s immune system. The findings of the study have been published in the Journal of Ethnopharmacology.

According to Dr Nam Dang of University of Florida, the papaya extract which was tested in the laboratory doesn’t have toxic effects Read more!

Chewing Gum can Enhance Patients’ Recovery after Cancer Surgery

Chewing Gum RecoveryAccording to studies, cancer patients who often chew chewing-gums after a surgery can leave the hospital 2 days faster compared to those who don’t chew any. Based on the study, Telegraph.co.uk reported that the doctors at a leading London hospital have been advising their patients to chew sugar-free gum after their surgery because it is believed to help getting their digestive systems back to normal.

Chewing gum has actually helped new mothers recovering from caesarean sections, therefore the method is also suggested for patients who undergo stomach surgery,
such as those who have colon cancer, because they can suffer from painful cramps until their digestion returns to normal.

Surgeons at University College London Hospital are now asking their patients who booked for bowel cancer surgery to bring supplies of sugar-free gum to be chewed three times a day for an hour after the surgery.
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