Are you feeling guilty because you can't resist chocolate? Think again. Chocolate, in moderation, has many redeeming effects on the body. Read on...
A Chocolate a Day Keeps the Doctor Away, published by Webdoctor
Chocolate is loaded with antioxidants, calcium, potassium and vitamins B-2 and E.
The darker you go the better. The darker it is means it has more cocoa – an ingredient shown to trigger the release of neurotransmitters that help alleviate depression.
Chocolate can also help relieve stress. In a recent study those who ate about an ounce and a half of dark chocolate every day for two weeks, reduced their stress hormones.
Theobromine, an ingredient in chocolate, is more effective at stopping persistent coughs than codeine.
Chocolate is also good for your heart, it contains oleic acid – a monounsaturated fat that helps boost good cholesterol levels.
Flavanols in chocolate MAY help prevent arteries from hardening.
Monday, June 28, 2010
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Swap Out Genetic Material From One Egg to Another?
Here is food for thought. Your family has a genetic history for bipolar disorder or for alcoholism or for breast cancer. Can you take out the related genetic material and borrow "better", healthier genetic material from someone else? This might be possible sooner than you think. Read on...
By ADAM COHEN
Published: January 25, 2010, in the New York Times
Scientists have created baby monkeys with a father and two mothers. Their goal was to eliminate birth defects, but increasing the number of biological parents beyond two could add a futuristic twist to an area where the law already is a mess: the question of who, in this age of artificial insemination and surrogacy, should be considered the legal parents of a baby.
Researchers at the Oregon National Primate Research Center were looking for ways to eliminate diseases that can be inherited through maternal DNA. They developed, as the magazine Nature reported last summer, a kind of swap in which defective DNA from the egg is removed and replaced with genetic material from another female’s egg. The researchers say the procedure is also likely to work on humans.
The result would be a baby with three biological parents — or “fractional parents,” as Adam Kolber, a professor at the University of San Diego School of Law, calls them.
He mentioned the idea over lunch at The Times, and it provided plenty of grist for debate among law junkies: Could a baby one day have 100 parents? Could anyone who contributes DNA claim visitation rights? How much DNA is enough? Can a child born outside the United States to foreigners who have DNA from an American citizen claim U.S. citizenship?
What are your thoughts? Please feel free to respond.
By ADAM COHEN
Published: January 25, 2010, in the New York Times
Scientists have created baby monkeys with a father and two mothers. Their goal was to eliminate birth defects, but increasing the number of biological parents beyond two could add a futuristic twist to an area where the law already is a mess: the question of who, in this age of artificial insemination and surrogacy, should be considered the legal parents of a baby.
Researchers at the Oregon National Primate Research Center were looking for ways to eliminate diseases that can be inherited through maternal DNA. They developed, as the magazine Nature reported last summer, a kind of swap in which defective DNA from the egg is removed and replaced with genetic material from another female’s egg. The researchers say the procedure is also likely to work on humans.
The result would be a baby with three biological parents — or “fractional parents,” as Adam Kolber, a professor at the University of San Diego School of Law, calls them.
He mentioned the idea over lunch at The Times, and it provided plenty of grist for debate among law junkies: Could a baby one day have 100 parents? Could anyone who contributes DNA claim visitation rights? How much DNA is enough? Can a child born outside the United States to foreigners who have DNA from an American citizen claim U.S. citizenship?
What are your thoughts? Please feel free to respond.
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