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Miami Shores Sued for Ordering Couple to Remove Vegetable Garden

Miami Shores Sued for Ordering Couple to Remove Vegetable Garden By Divya Shree Edited By Stephanie Dawson Maintaining a vegetable garden was a token of love for retired architect Hermine Rickets. Okra, kale, lettuce, onions, and a variety of Asian cabbage were part of this garden, however the leaders of Miami Shore Village were not

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Green Tea and Alzheimer’s Prevention

According to a study published in Proceeding of the National Academy of Sciences, green tea extract, especially EGCG, a powerful antioxidant, prevents the formation of proteins called metal-associated amyloids, associated with Alzheimer’s disease and other neurodegenerative conditions. Green tea contains between 30-40% of water-extractable polyphenols, with benefits reported for reducing the risk of Alzheimer and

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Breakthrough: Robotic Limb Controlled By The Mind

Doctors have made astounding progress in the fields of medicine and technology, which is great news for quadriplegics and amputees everywhere. A chip, installed in the brain or on nerve endings on amputated limbs, connects the brain to a robotic arm, which then follows the brain’s commands as if it were the person’s own arm.

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Flaxseed May Protect You Against Radiation

Flaxseed may protect healthy tissues and organs from the harmful effects of radiation! A study by Dr. Melpo Christofidou-Solomidou PhD and colleagues in the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center shows that flaxseed may protect internal organs such as lungs against the damages of radiation. The study published in BMC Cancer in August 2011 showed that

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A Child’s Birth Date And His Learning Performance

A new study published in The Journal of Pediatrics shows that your child’s birth date might influence his/her performance in school. The children who are younger in a class perform worse on tests than their older classmates.In addition, younger students are significantly more diagnosed as Attention Deficit/ Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) children and are often prescribed

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For the first time ever, women outscore men on IQ tests

A new research by James R. Flynn shows that women outscore men on IQ test. Flynn is famous for his researches on human intelligence and for his theory of Flynn’s effect which basically says that IQ scores are increasing all around the world every year. In this study Flynn looked at IQ scores from ages

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Smoking And Vitamin-D

Most of us, including three quarters of American adults are vitamin-D deficient, which may cause serious problems. According to National Institute of Health, “vitamin D is a fat-soluble vitamin that is naturally present in very few foods, added to others, and available as a dietary supplement. It is also produced endogenously when ultraviolet rays from

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Health benefits of raisins

[Last updated: November 8th 2012] Because of high fiber content, raisins are good aid in digestion. Also they’re abundant in minerals which are essential for bone health. More importantly, raisins are good source of antioxidants which fight against free radicals and help us to live younger and longer. Now a new body of research shows

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Ginseng: a new hope for cancer patients

A new study shows that ginseng reduces fatigue and some other cancer-related symptoms in patients with cancer. In the study led by Laura Murphy, Ph.D researches examined the effects of American ginseng powder’s capsules versus placebo on cancer pateints and indicated that ginseng significantly alleviates the cancer-related symptoms and mostly fatigue in these pateints. This

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High-Fructose Diet Leads To Memory Loss

Some of the dangers of high fructose corn syrup previously were shown in different scientific media; But this is the first time that scientists were able to link between higher consumption of fructose and brain function. In a study published on May 15th 2012 on Journal of Physiology, researchers from University of California Los Angeles

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