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The same healthy diet that's good for your heart and arteries can help preserve your eyes and vision. That's not surprising. "Vision depends on tiny capillaries that supply the retina and other parts of the eye with nutrients and oxygen," says Monique Roy, MD, a professor at the New Jersey Medical School's Institute of Ophthalmology and Visual Science. "Keeping those arteries ... Continue Reading
Let's have some fun... If we look back into history we can see that many well respected scientists and philosophers such as Newton, Pythagoras, Einstein, Plato and civilizations such as the Ancient Babylonians, Greeks and Egyptians dedicated their lives to exploring and studying numbers and their importance in our lives. It is also interesting that if we study nature we can ... Continue Reading
"We are what we eat." This is one phrase most of us are familiar with. However, this statement doesn't give the complete picture. To be effective, the above statement needs to be elaborated upon a little. That is, we are what we eat and what we absorb. You may eat nutrient-rich diets or take food supplements, but they may fail to make you healthier if essential nutrients are ... Continue Reading
Vitamin K is a group of fat soluble vitamins that are needed for the posttranslational modification of certain proteins, mostly required for blood coagulation but also involved in metabolism pathways in bone and other tissue. Why do we require Vitamin K? Vitamin K plays an important role in regulating the clotting of blood. Our liver requires Vitamin K to produce proteins ... Continue Reading
What is Rh Factor In 1940, Austrian-American physician Karl Landsteiner discovered an antigen (a substance that triggers the production of antibodies to kill or neutralize foreign invaders, such as bacteria and viruses) on the surface of red blood cells. This antigen was named Rh Factor, short for “Rhesus Factor”, and was named after the Rhesus monkeys that were used by Karl ... Continue Reading
