Rosy Fruits The Best Lycopene Source
The word lycopene is probably quite familiar enough in our ears. I my self often find this word in commercial break for some beauty and health products, like how lycopene can help us out to have a brighter complexion and how lycopene support the detoxification process in human body.
But what is lycopene anyway, how can lycopene do all those things and where can we find lycopene ? well, I found the answers in some articles I read, and already make some short summary of it. Lycopene is a red pigment, and this red pigment is abundantly found in rosy fruits. Some examples of those rosy fruits are tomatoes, watermelon, red guava, papaya and red bell paper.
A research by Havard Medical School has found that consuming lycopene will lowering the risk of cancer and heart attack. Lycopene contributes a stronger antioxidant compared to vitamin C (Rui Hai Liu, Professor of Food Science, Cornell University).
A study which was revealed in 2002 also mentioned that the lycopene in tomatoes will have an increasing level by cooking. Read more
Patch To Reduce Chemotherapy Nausea
It is not easy dealing with chemotherapy. Most patients will have bad feeling in stomach ache till vomiting after the chemotherapy, some even will puke after it. Good news came from FDA, in September 15th 2008, FDA had agreed to publication of Sancuso. Sancuso is a plaster/patch that is able to reduce the stomach sick after chemotherapy.
It is different with pills, this plaster is applied on arm. Sancuso plaster contains granicetron. Granicetron will get into body through skin. This can be a good solvent for chemotherapy patients, because sick feeling will make it hard for patients to consume pills. If the patient feel comfort in their stomach, it is hoped that he/she will have appetite for dining, thus the energy of body will increase, and emotionally they will be more stable.
Unfortunately, Sancuso may cause constipation. In some cases, this condition has a serious digest obstruction
Hair Paint, Coloration, And Its Danger
Selecting hair paint in the market, is not easy sometimes. Mostly, hair paint that circulates contains chemicals. While by a wish to come up our style with hair sparkle, we also want a healthy hair. Some research in West has mentioned that there is strong ties between hair coloration and increasing risk of contaminating cancer.
For example, research that conducted by American Cancer Society and FDA in 1994, it was said that woman that use black hair colorant during more than 20 years, has risked her self from Hodgkins lymphoma (lymphoma Hodgkins) disease and multiple myeloma (disease that marked with ferocious tumor spreading in so many bone at body), as does leukemia disease.
Dr. Samuel Epstein and David Steinman, book writer of “The Safe Shopper’s’Bible’ also underlined the existence of dependability between the duration of permanent usage, and semi permanent hair colorant, at the height of limpfoma Hodgkins and leukemia patients.
