Omnia Mutantur » Health http://ricardo.strangevistas.net "No. Not even in the face of Armaggedon. Never compromise." Thu, 02 Apr 2009 17:03:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 Habit-forming http://ricardo.strangevistas.net/habit-forming.html http://ricardo.strangevistas.net/habit-forming.html#comments Mon, 02 Mar 2009 18:27:27 +0000 Ricardo http://ricardo.strangevistas.net/?p=569 Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> More than jetlagged I feel caffeine-lagged. I got used to drinking more grüner tee in Berlin to keep warm, plus kept sampling the capuccinos at places where I stopped in the afternoons. Now that I’m back on a lower dosage, my body is kind of resenting it.

I brought back some rooibos that I found at an organic supermarket, but given its lack of caffeine, I’ll wait until I’ve re-balanced my caffeine intake to try it.

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]]> http://ricardo.strangevistas.net/yoga.html/feed 0 Living forever: watermelon boosts immune system http://ricardo.strangevistas.net/living-forever-watermelon-boosts-immune-system.html http://ricardo.strangevistas.net/living-forever-watermelon-boosts-immune-system.html#comments Thu, 22 Mar 2007 20:49:39 +0000 Ricardo http://ricardo.strangevistas.net/living-forever-watermelon-boosts-immune-system.html Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> For those of us who would like to live forever, here’s a new interesting news: watermelon can act as an immunity booster.

In addition to containing plentiful amounts of the health-promoting antioxidant lycopene, watermelon is an excellent source of the amino acid citrulline.

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The human body uses citrulline to make another important amino acid—arginine—which plays a key role in cell division, wound healing and the removal of ammonia from the body.

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Medical researchers are currently evaluating arginine as a possible treatment for high blood pressure, elevated glucose levels and the vascular complications associated with sickle-cell disease.

If such studies pan out, concentrated forms of watermelon could represent an all-natural amino acid source. The fruit’s good-for-the-body lycopene is an added bonus.

Via Technocrat.

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