Have you ever heard of Flavonols? Flavonols are a chemical found in great abundance in various teas including black tea, green tea. You can also find a great amount of flavonols in red wine and dark chocolate. So what’s so great about flavonols? Flavonols offer health improvements and benefits to people who suffer with heart [...]
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What Good Are Flavonols?
Posted by Michael Casals on August 14th, 2010
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Tags: black tea, blood pressure, Chocolate, Circulatory system, Flavonols, Green tea, Health, Heart disease, Types of chocolate 
No Comments »Nourish Your Body with Good Fats
Posted by Michael Casals on April 30th, 2010
If you’re like most women, you’ve been trying to avoid fat to keep your waistline in check. The trouble is that fat protects your organs, keeps you warm and supplies your body with essential nutrients such as omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids, the nutrients it needs to support cell growth. Eat too little and you’ll [...]
Resveratrol is Really Remarkable
Posted by Michael Casals on March 15th, 2010
Want a healthy snack for yourself or your kids? Try grapes. Grape skins contain an antioxidant called resveratrol that has been shown to cause apoptosis (programmed cell death) in cancer cells. Resveratrol appears to kill off cancer cells by depolarizing (demagnetizing) mitochondrial membranes (the energy source) within tumor cells, which results in a decrease in [...]
Posted in Health Tags: Antioxidant, Apoptosis, cancer, French paradox, Health, Heart disease, Resveratrol, Wine No Comments »
