Pomegranate perfect for your skin
Pomegranate has many health benefits, and it can do wonders for one’s skin too. From playing the role of powerful antioxidant to a product of anti-ageing, the fruit can help in many ways, suggests Wren Holmes, brand manager of Urban Veda. Skin nutrition is vital at tackling one of the biggest causes of aging: free radical damage, and pomegranates are rightly known as superfoods for their antioxidant content. Not only is pomegranate anti-inflammatory and high in essential fatty acids, it has also been shown to stimulate Keratinocyte skin cells, which help with cellular regeneration, making it a fantastic anti-aging ingredient.
New method to diagnose Malaria
Scientists have developed a fast, reliable and inexpensive method to diagnose malaria that uses magnetic field to detect the parasite’s waste products in the blood of infected patients. Over the past several decades, malaria diagnosis has changed very little. After taking a blood sample from a patient, a technician smears the blood across a glass slide, stains it with a special dye, and looks under a microscope for the Plasmodium parasite, which causes the disease. This approach gives an accurate count of how many parasites are in the blood, but there is potential for human error. A research team from the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology has claimed to have come up with a possible alternative. It has devised a way to use Magnetic Resonance Relaxometry to detect a parasitic waste product in the blood of patients.
WINE is good only if you exercise
If you think moderate wine drinking can protect against cardio-vascular diseases, you are probably right; just mix daily exercise to it. Earlier studies have found that red and white wine increases levels of high-density lipoprotein, the “good” cholesterol. “We found that moderate wine drinking was only protective in people who exercised. Red and white wine produced the same results,” said professor Milos Taborsky from the Czech Republic. The study included 146 people with mild to moderate risk of cardio-vascular disease. Researchers found that there was no difference between HDl cholesterol levels at the beginning of the study. After one year, low-density lipoprotein — “bad cholesterol” — was lower in both groups while total cholesterol was lower only in the red wine group.