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Health Benefits of the Chinese Green Tea Diet

Dating back more than 4,000 years, Chinese green tea diet has been long revered as a tasty drink that can ward off diseases and improve one’s well-being. There are only a few herbs that can surpass the impressive history of Chinese green tea diet.

Since its first recorded use during the time of Emperor Shen Nung, the link between Chinese green tea diet and good health has never been severed. Today, further studies are made to test the benefits of the remarkable health elixir that is Chinese green tea diet.

Traditional Health Benefits of the Chinese green tea diet

According to tradition, this Chinese diet could cure anything from headaches, body aches, and pains to constipation and depression. Over the centuries, more health claims are made on account of the Chinese green tea diet.

Chinese green tea detoxifies the body. The presence of polyphenols, a naturally occurring antioxidant in this particular tea, is said to combat harmful free radicals and help keep the body free from diseases. In this regard, Chinese green tea helps maintain the overall well-being of the body. It fights against the anti-aging process because the antioxidants in Chinese green tea diet can boost immunity, preserve young-looking skin, and brighten the eyes.

Additional health benefits of Chinese green tea is it increases the blood flow throughout the body. Because it contains a little caffeine, ingesting this drink stimulates the heart and allows the blood to flow more freely through the blood vessels. For the same reason that tea stimulates blood flow, it also stimulates mental clarity.

For many years, men of science remained skeptical about the health claims made by Chinese green tea diet enthusiasts because the health benefits are truly vast in number. Their doubt was changed to a more positive reception when subsequent researchers proved the disease-preventing attributes of the Chinese green tea diet and confirmed most of the health claims.

The Heart

Study after study has shown that drinking Chinese green tea and eating polyphenol-rich foods reduces the risk of any heart complications. It helps strengthen the blood vessels that provide oxygen and valuable nutrients to the heart and brain. It has also been researched that men who use the Chinese green tea diet have a 75 percent less possibility of having a stroke than those who don’t use the diet.

The Chinese green tea diet helps lower total cholesterol levels and improve the ratio between LDL cholesterol and HDL cholesterol. Study shows that men who drink nine or more cups of Chinese green tea diet daily have lower cholesterol levels than those who drink fewer than two cups. While nine cups may seem a lot, break it up through out the day and you’ll realize it’s not that difficult to drink that many cups. You could have one during and after each meal and during your breaks.

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Longevity

The role of Chinese green tea diet in promoting longevity has been investigated upon by many researchers. They found the premise of their study on observing Japanese women who are greater-than-average Chinese green tea diet drinkers; have lower mortality rates compared to others. This led the researchers to believe that the Chinese green tea diet has “a protective factor against premature death.”

The polyphenols found in the diet may be held accountable. With its high amount of polyphenols, it seems to have a stimulating effect on the immune system. A stronger immune system as a result of drinking Chinese green tea helps reduce risks of obtaining many illnesses.

If these health benefits of doing the Chinese green tea diet don’t motivate you to start drinking this miracle in a cup, chances are you’ll never become motivated to loose weight. So start today and drink up. The health benefits go well beyond weight loss!

New AIDS nightmare looms for gay men: study

The gay community in the western world, mauled by the first wave of the AIDS AIDS pandemic, now faces a second storm, according to a forecast released at the International AIDS conference.Since 2001, new cases of HIV HIV in the homosexual population in the United States, Europe, Canada and Australasia have been rising by about 1.9 % every year, the research by the University of Pittsburgh said.Without action to correct this trend a return to safe sex or an unexpected medical breakthrough the infection rate is set to soar as the population ages.

In 2001, HIV affected on average roughly one in 12 gay 20-year-olds in these countries. By the time they are 30, researchers projected, the rate could rise to one in four. And by the time this group reaches 60, 58 percent could be infected.Ensuing generations are also at threat, said the study, which was a review of papers in published journals.“Ongoing incidence rates at this level will yield very high HIV prevalence rates within each generation of gay men,” University of Pittsburgh researcher Ron Stall said.Stall was especially alarmed by the explosion in HIV infections among African-American gays.In this group, the rate of new infections today is four percent among those between 15 and 22 years of age - but 15 % among those aged 23-29.

Assuming an average rate of increase of four percent of new infections per year, three-quarters of individuals in the 23-29 group will be HIV-positive when they reach the age of 50.”It’s not a new story, it has been repeated time and again in the literature in the past… an almost unbelievable incidence rate,” Stall said.”African-American men who have sex with men suffer among the highest HIV prevalence rates of any risk group in the world.”The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC CDC) also warned of a daunting rise in the rate of gays contracting HIV in 35 US states.Ronald Valdiserri, deputy director of the CDC’s National Center for HIV, said the surge in infections among gay men could partly be explained by the growing use of methamphetamines, a drug that enhances sexual appetites and can drive users into risky sex.

He also pointed to what he called “AIDS burnout” complacency about the risks from AIDS in the era of antiretroviral drugs, which keep HIV to a manageable level but are not a cure and carry major side-effects.”We have a new generation of gay men who didn’t go through the early years, who didn’t see neighbourhoods dying,” said Valdiserri.”HIV is still an incurable disease. In the United States five percent (of the budget for HIV) is spent on prevention,” he added.”America is more interested on treating this disease than preventing it. We can’t treat our way out of this epidemic, even as a rich country.”

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Novel drug selectively kills prostate cancer cells

A team of US scientists hasdeveloped an experimental drug treatment that kills prostatecancer cells in mice while sparing normal cells. The approach is based on delivering small interfering RNAs(siRNAs) to tumor cells, North Carolina-based researchersreport in the journal Nature Biotechnology.In tests in mice with prostate cancer, the researchersfound that tumors treated with the experimental RNA-based drughad a 2.21-fold reduction in volume. In contrast, variouscontrol tumors left untreated increased in volume by 3.63-foldover a period of about 2 weeks.The mice given the RNA-based drug showed no ill effects.”Our initial animal studies using prostate cancer as amodel are encouraging,” said study investigator Dr. Bruce A.Sullenger from Duke University Medical Center in Durham, “andwe plan to explore the use of this strategy for targeting avariety of other cancers and diseases.”

Moreover, he and his colleagues intend to “evaluate thepotential of this approach in … clinical studies in the nextfew years.” Explaining the rationale behind the RNA-based strategy,Sullenger told Reuters Health: “RNA is such a multifacetedmolecule, that a single molecule of RNA can simultaneouslytrick cells into taking it up via a targeting RNA sequence andshut down the expression of an essential cancer survival genevia a silencing RNA sequence.”The approach is a “simple yet elegant” way to target cancercells for destruction without harming normal cells, he said.

SOURCE: Nature Biotechnology August 2006.

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Health experts look to new weapons to battle AIDS

Circumcision, microbicides and drugsall offer promising new possibilities for battling the AIDS pandemic, but it will not be easy to roll out this arsenal ofpreven tion methods, experts said on Tuesday.

And the ultimate goal of a vaccine is still far away, although vaccine researchers said they were making progress.”An AIDS vaccine is the only tool that can end the pandemic,” Dr. S. Berkley of the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative told a news conference.”All evidence suggests that a vaccine is possible. There isprogress being made. It’s slow but it’s steady.”

In the meantime, people need to mobilize every prevention method possible, according to the report by the Global HIV Prevention Working Group, presented to the InternationalConference on AIDS.The global HIV group is in a position to make some of itsrecommendations happen. Its members work at the World Health Organization World Health Organization, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, European Commission and the World Bank .”This is really putting prevention on the map in ways thatit hasn’t been done before,” Dr. H. Gayle of the aid group CARE and an organizer of the AIDS conference, said in aninterview. “Research on some of these approaches, such as malecircumcision and diaphragms, could show results within the nexttwo years,” the report concludes.No method would work on its own, but combining severalcould make a dent in the epidemic, the report says.The United Nations United Nations AIDS agency UNAIDS estimates that $11.4billion will be needed annually for HIV prevention by 2008,more than twice what is now spent.The AIDS virus infects more than 39 million peopleglobally, more than 60 % of them in sub-Saharan Africa.It kills more than 4 million people every year.Condoms and abstinence are the only reliable methods toprevent AIDS in adults, which is spread sexually and viaintravenous drug use.

LITTLE PLANNING “Despite the fact that some new HIV prevention methodscould be shown to be effective in the near future, virtually noplanning or resources have been dedicated to ensuring futureaccess to new prevention approaches,” the report says.They include:

- Circumcision: A study in South Africa showed circumcisedmen were 60 % less likely than uncircumcised men tobecome infected with HIV from female partners. The foreskin ofthe penis contains many of the cells HIV can easily infect.

- Cervical barriers: Diaphragms and similar birth controlmethods might block the virus from reaching the cervix, whichin women is the area most susceptible to the virus.

- Pre-exposure prophylaxis with HIV drugs. Research inanimals suggests taking one or two drugs a day could protectpeople at high risk of infection.

- Herpes suppression: The herpes virus, which infects upto 70 % of people in some parts of sub-Saharan Africa,creates lesions that make HIV easier to acquire and transmit,but can be suppressed with several antiviral drugs.

- Microbicides: A gel or cream, perhaps containing an HIVdrug, could be applied to the vagina or rectum to reduce HIVtransmission. Five promising microbicides are currently inlate-stage clinical trials.

Former U.S. President Bill Clinton Bill Clinton told the meeting muchprogress had been made in beating down the price of HIVtreatments and getting them to the people who need them most.Four years ago, Clinton said, a course of treatment withgeneric versions of first-line HIV drugs cost $400 a year. “Wewere able to lower this price to just $140 a person a year,”Clinton said. Rapid HIV tests now cost just 50 cents, he said.And leaders who had refused to recognize the extent of theAIDS problem have signed on to fight it, he added. “China, oncein a state of denial, deserves all of our respect for turningon a dime and recognizing the problem,” Clinton said.

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