Your Health Matters

Does Your Workout Really Work? Done right, these seven exercises give you results that you can see and feel. (via Most Effective Exercises Pictures Slideshow: Squats, Lunges, and More)

You don’t need machines at the gym to get fit. Your own body weight and gravity can do the job, and you’ll work them with these 15 moves. (via Home Workout Pictures: Equipment, Workout Routines, Weights, and More)

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Artichoke Hearts

These small greenish-yellow veggies are jam-packed with fiber – 12 grams per cup, in fact. And a diet sufficient in fiber helps to promote healthy weight and cholesterol levels – and digestive health. But what’s more, a 2006 study in theAmerican Journal of Clinical Nutrition found that artichoke hearts had the highest antioxidant density of any vegetable, beating out such well-known antioxidant powerhouses as blueberries, dark chocolate and grapes.

Nurses and midwives can play a critical role in lessening people’s risk of cardiovascular diseases, cancers, chronic respiratory disease and diabetes, according to a groundbrea (via Nurses can play key role in reducing deaths from world’s most common diseases / UCLA Newsroom)

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Black Tea

Along with green and white teas, black tea is full of antioxidant flavonoids. “Studies suggest [they] may have strong anti-inflammatory and immune boosting properties, be protective against certain cancers, cardiovascular disease and diabetes,” says Heller. “Just don’t load your tea up with sugar and cream!" 

On the other hand, adding a squeeze of lemon could help your body absorb antioxidants as well. But don’t think that the compounds from tea are just the same as those found in other antioxidant-rich items like fruits and vegetables – flavonoids are distinctly different, according to tea researcher John Weisburger, who told WebMD: ”“In my lab, we found that green and black tea had identical amounts of polyphenols. We found that both types of tea blocked DNA damage associated with tobacco and other toxic chemicals. In animal studies, tea-drinking rats have less cancer.”

If all the smokers in Britain stopped smoking cigarettes and started smoking e-cigarettes we would save 5 million deaths in people who are alive today” Professor John Britton Royal College of Physicians (via BBC News - Electronic cigarettes - miracle or menace?)

Health-conscious consumers beware – poisons are lurking in unexpected places, and you may be unknowingly exposing yourself to them daily. (via 5 Dangerous Toxins We Eat Everyday - The Alternative Daily)

An article in the Sept. 26, 2011, issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine confirmed what doctors have long known—that many patients are suffering from too much care. (via Too Many Doctors - Consumer Reports)

Thousands more patients will soon feel the benefits of better care at their GP surgery as an ambitious vision to improve the lives of people with long term conditions and people with dementia becomes a reality. (via Thousands of patients with long-term conditions and dementia could benefit as GP contract proposals are unveiled | Media Centre)