Citicoline Energy Drink: Improves Brain & Heals Stroke?

Do Citicoline drinks and gels sharpen mind, boost energy? In today’s globalized and hypercompetitive world, people need to speed up just to keep pace. This culture of speed is driving the demand for energy drinks and supplements, marketed on claims that drinking them clears your mind and helps you focus.

Last year, Americans spent about US$9 billion on energy drinks, according to the Council for Responsible Nutrition. In most of these drinks, caffeine or sugar provides the energy jolt.

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Are Strawberries With Methyl Iodide Safe to Eat?

Green groups, California regulators face off over strawberry farm poison: Before you pop that strawberry into your mouth, consider this: you could be helping poison the farmers who grow these strawberries, as well as their children, and the groundwater in the farms they tend.

That’s according to the Pesticide Action Network (PAN), other environmental activists and scientists who are behind a suit asking California’s pesticide regulators to overturn its decision allowing the use of methyl iodide as a fumigant, mostly in strawberry farms.

According to PAN, exposure to methyl iodide “causes late term miscarriages, contaminates groundwater and is so reliably carcinogenic that it’s used to create cancer cells in laboratories.”

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Chocolate Addiction Treatment: Exercise, Baby!

Exercise curbs choco addiction: Almost a third of all Americans and a huge proportion of people in developed countries now struggle to break the grip of an obesity epidemic—and a new study linking exercise to decreased chocolate addiction can be of critical help.

Office workers, in particular, who are forced by heavy workloads, long hours and shifting schedules to sit at their desk all day and engage in stress eating, have higher odds of becoming obese.

A recent study suggests that walking to the office or getting up during the day could help the growing number of white-collar workers keep the pounds off.

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Broccoli Helps Fight Heart Disease, Undo Diabetes Damage

Eating broccoli can help protect against heart disease and even undo the damage that diabetes wreaks on blood vessel cells because it contains a potent compound called sulforaphane.

Two studies conducted in 2008, one done by American researchers and the other by a British team, came to this conclusion.

Findings of a study conducted by a team from the University of Connecticut’s cardiovascular research center suggest that eating broccoli may trigger the production of proteins that protect against heart damage. The study was published in The Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry in 2008.

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Fake Blueberries in Cereals & Muffins: Kellog’s, General Mills, Betty Crocker

Fake Blueberries in Cereals and Muffins: Kellog’s, General Mills, and Betty Crocker. All fruits are ‘stars’ that pack significant health benefits, but blueberries are absolute superstars. Blueberries abound with antioxidants, vitamin C, dietary fiber, potassium and other essential nutrients, so much so that many nutritionists think of blueberries as a superfood.

They are known to be beneficial to the skin, improve brain function, prevent Alzheimer’s and dementia, and lower the risk of heart disease and cancer. At only 42 calories per 1/2 cup serving, blueberries are ideal as a smart snack option.

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Pink Slime in Food, Hamburgers, and Ground Beef

Pink Slime in Food, Hamburgers, and Ground Beef. For the sheer number of burgers they consume—about 40 billion burgers a year—Americans could rename their country Burger Nation.

But how many Americans knew that for many years most of their burgers were not made from beef, but from an ammonia-treated burger extender product derisively dubbed by agriculture department officials as “pink slime”?

The good news is that—as quietly as they began using the product ten years ago, three fast food chains stopped using it last December.

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