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Written by Neal K
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Introduction
Globally more than 1.5 billion people have Hypertension or High Blood pressure. It is a chronic medical condition and often called a silent killer since it can cause a lot of damage to the affected before the disorder is identified. Usually when the heart beats, it creates force which gets transferred to the blood. The blood takes the force to the arteries and creates pressure within the arteries which is known as blood pressure.
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Written by Skye Schachten
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When our daughter was born we were so happy about having this healthy and happy little girl. After three months she started developing an eczema, which soon covered her entire little body and even though we were quite concerned she still seemed to be fairly happy. We tried all the recommended cures like:
* only breast feeding
* evening primrose oil
* cumin oil
* allergy treatments
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Written by Dr Varsha Patel
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Colorectal cancer is main cause of cancer deaths in western countries. It accounts about to 15% of all cancers. Aetiology of colon cancer is multi-factorial and complex but diet is one of the important factors to cause and prevent cancers, like high animal fat consumption is associated with an increase in rate of colon cancer and frequent consumption of vegetables and fruits, due to presence of bioactive food components, decreases the risk of human cancers. This observation has led to research focused upon chemopreventive agents, especially those obtained from the diet. Recently researches have been focused on identifying, dietary phytochemicals that have the ability to inhibit the formation of cancer. Researches have shown that extracts of plants or their ingredients possess inhibitory effects against chemically induced carcinogenesis. Although, nutritional intervention may not be sufficient to protect/or reduce risk of colon cancer in high risk individuals. A complementary approach for secondary prevention would be to recognise and distinguish between chemopreventive agents. The effectiveness of these various chemopreventive agents, together with nutritional interventions in high-risk individuals should then be assessed. Medicinal plants or their crude extracts have been traditionally used in the prevention and/or treatment of several chronic diseases by various different ethnic cultures world wide. In India the incidence rate of large and small bowel cancers are low, but rectal cancer is more common in India as compared to colon cancer. This low incidence of colon cancer in Indians can be due to high intake of starch and the presence of natural antioxidants such as curcumin, found in spice turmeric which is exclusively used in Indian cooking.
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