Grapes protect the health of the heart with metabolic syndrome

New study suggests that eating grapes may help protect heart health in people who suffer from metabolic syndrome.

The metabolic syndrome is a set of conditions occur together is to increase blood pressure and high blood sugar and excess fat around the waist or lower cholesterol and increase good blood triglycerides. All these factors increase the risk of heart disease, stroke and diabetes.

Researchers have noted a decline in the main risk factors for heart disease in men metabolic syndrome patients who ate the grapes are heavy, such as lower blood pressure and improve blood flow and reduce inflammation. Scientists have attributed it to the contents of normal grapes, known as polyphenols.

In this study, by researchers from the Department of Nutritional Sciences at the University of Connecticut was divided among respondents aged between 30 and 70 years old who suffer from metabolic syndrome into two groups randomly.

The group took the first grapes in the form of grape powder freeze-dried for four weeks, while the second group dealt with powder similar in shape and color and taste, but it is not made of grapes.

Response was compared to each person to address the grape powder or the alternative, after three weeks of stopping eating the two groups for both treatments. The researchers found that eating grapes dramatically reduces blood pressure and improves blood flow to the heart and reduces the content associated with inflammation.

Little it is known that grapes protects heart health, but this is the first study about the influence of the vine on the metabolic syndrome.

Source: Web Biologist

Strawberries to protect the skin from UV rays.

Recent European study found the positive impact of strawberry in the protection of  the skin from ultraviolet radiation.

The team discovered that the  add of strawberries to samples of skin cells give protection from UV rays with the increase vitality and reduce the harm caused DNA of the cell. Scientists believe that this discovery could pave the way for the production of new creams to protect skin from the sun made from strawberries.

The author of the study Maurizio Patino School of Politecnica delle Marche, Italy "I have verified the protective effect of strawberry against damage to skin a result of exposure to ultraviolet light."The scientists assumed that the red pigment in fruits such as strawberries are responsible for the protective properties of the strawberry, as the analysis confirmed that the extract was rich in this article.

Said Sarah Tolebana from the University of Barcelona, ​​Spain "This material has the characteristics of an important anti-inflammatory and is anti-oxidant or carcinogenesis as it is able to mitigate and modify operations of the secretion of enzymes. But we have not yet found a direct relationship between this article and the characteristics of protectionism for strawberries."

She added: "Currently results of this study represent a basis for further studies to evaluate the biological and Altatheralehioa to this article on the layers of skin, whether it is external use formulations such as food or for the skin."

In a previous study demonstrated that the Spanish researcher strengthens the strawberry fruit of red blood cells and protects the stomach from the harmful effects of wine.

Source: Web Biologist