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Brain Trauma and Behavioral Aberration

I have just read an article in the August edition of Denver Voice, on brain trauma. Denver Voice is committed to empowering homeless, impoverished and transient individuals by creating job opportunities through their Vendor Program. Vendors buy Denver Voice for 25 cents, which pays for part of production cost and sell the paper to the public for a one dollar donation. 75 cents is theirs to keep. Homelessness is common in the developed economies and occurs when one cannot afford for housing and so lives in public places or wherever they find convenient to them. Organizations like the Council, religious bodies and NGO's have come up with programs to provide shelter to those who cannot afford it. The problem of homelessness is the more acute now because of the bad economy. Studies have invariably shown that most homeless people in North America(both USA and Canada) have had brain trauma of one form or another. The symptoms of brain trauma mirror very closely those of schizophrenia...

Eat Variety to Stay in Good Health

There is no single food that will provide all the nutrients that your body needs. The solution to getting the best out of food is to eat variety. Even nutrients with anti-oxidant properties are varied. Different fruits and vegetables, coffee, beans, all, have anti-oxidants but although, as anti-oxidants, they perform the same function, boosting the immune system and preventing damage to the body, they are chemically different. When you eat only one type of food, considerd to be high in an anti-oxidant, you easily reach an accumulative saturation point of the particular anti-oxidant in the body and as this quota is attained, eating more will only lead to increased elimination of the particular nutrient out of the body. Mind you that any substance taken in too high an amount, additionally and inevitably, becomes toxic. Sticking to a staple diet, even if it contains all the conventional classes of food, may not be such a good an idea, since you will not get all the nutrients in the righ...

Good News for Coffee Drinkers

Drinkers of coffee and tea, you have good news: You can be spared of the burden of multi-drug resistant bacteria, that have emerged from widespread use of anti-biotics. These bacteria are usually found in biofilm, the slime, which as a barrier makes treatment even more difficult. These bacteria are resistant to almost all anti-biotics in current use. Biofilms are formed when these resistant bacteria multiply and attain a large population in their colony. This growth is promoted by inadequate nutrition, which suppresses the immune system or a diet high in sugar and in micronutrients that favor bacteria growth. Coffee both regulates body sugar and boosts the immune system, thus permitting the body to both limit the growth of recalcitrant infections and to get rid of them. Coffee and tea contain lignans and phytoestrogens, anti-oxidants which counteract pain, in one way, by their ability to scavenge highly reactive oxygen species, generated from metabolic challenges, tissue damage, ...