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The Carlsen Food Antioxidant Review

Monica Carlsen and her team of 16 made a review of 3100 foods, beverages, spices, herbs and supplements used worldwide to determine antioxidant levels in each. The list below contains what details available in the report published in 22 January 2010 issue of Nutrition Journal . The determination used the modified FRAP (ferric-reducing ability of plasma) assay, which provides a good and fast total antioxidant analysis, although not sensitive to glutathione. Information not mentioned here can be found in my Sun-Star Cebu article entitled "." BEVERAGES The study involved 283 products, wet (coffee, tea, beer, wine, lemonades, etc.) and dry (coffee beans, dried tea leaves and powders) products included. Unprocessed tea leaves, tea powders and coffee beans contain the highest antioxidant values. Those rich in antioxidants include red wine (1.78-3.66 mmol/100g), pomegranate juice, prepared green tea (0.57-2.62 mmol/100g), grape juice, prune juice and black tea (0.75-1.21 mmol/100

The Green Aurora Mystery

Science provides a never-ending source fascination to the mind that awes at the unfathomable beauty of nature. Among those sciences, a few that strike me with wonder are astronomy, archaeology, biology, and medicine. You will notice that these fields covers the full spectrum of science, from the endless expanse of the outer space in astronomy to the microscopic cosmos of medical science. Last January 10, photographer Per-Arne Mikalsen captured a "phenomenon" that may not be fully explained with full certainty... until maybe later in the distant future. On Jan. 20, 2010, Per-Arne Mikalsen was photographing a vast aurora erupting over the northern Norwegian town of Andenes. Because solar activity is on the increase, aurora spotters have many opportunities to see the Northern Lights. On this particular night the aurora was intense, stretching toward the southern latitudes of Norway. In one of the photographs taken by Mikalsen was an "object" that couldn't b

Health Risk in Boxing Fame and Fortune

Sometimes a person has to choose between health and money, at times life and death in the pursuit financial well-being for self and family. And in the history of world boxing, the cost indeed can be very high. A slice of Z "The Dream" Gorres' skull remains stored in a biologic refrigeration system at a facility outside San Diego. The piece of bone, about the size of a man's hand, had to be removed after the bantamweight boxer's Nov. 13 fight at Mandalay Bay's House of Blues. The 27-year-old's battered brain needed room to swell, according to University Medical Center trauma surgeon Dr. Michael Casey. Had the opening not been made, the swelling within the tight confines of his skull would have compressed his brain stem, shut down his breathing and also his heart. He would have died. Read more.

Homosexuality Is A Way of Thinking

See A Medical View of Homosexuality for the latest research findings. No matter how you look at it, homosexuality--gay or lesbian--is only a way of thinking reinforced by many years of behavioral preferences. There is no one born gay or lesbian. But there are many who have no good role models of health masculinity or feminity. The role models could either be passive masculines and demanding feminines or oppressive masculines and manipulative feminines or other unknown combinations of certain unhealthy sexuality characteristics. In the same way that a suicidal person is not born depressed as she is raised in a home of depressive atmosphere people with depressed or suicidal role models, homosexuals came to be so because of failure in healthy modelling. With that in mind, homosexuality is essentially a mental problem and not an existential condition. Studies and observation furnish us a lot of faulty thoughts that bring a person to develop homosexual behaviors, thus changing its "se