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Influence of polyphenols in wine and health
The French population has a low mortality from coronary heart disease incidenciade, despite a high consumption of fat. Epidemiological situation is known as the “French paradox” and has been explained by the moderate intake of wine, common in this population.
Numerous studies have linked effect of ingesting a moderate amount of wine, with the presence of polyphenolic compounds in it. Polyphenols have a strong interest in its antioxidant effect, which appears to be associated with anticarcinogenic and antiatherogenic properties attributed to these components present in wine, but are also present in many foods of plant origin. These properties of common foods such as vegetables, fruits, nuts and vegetable foods in general, may explain some of the virtues of the Mediterranean diet, and open a new field of research in nutrition-oriented prevention of cardiovascular diseases and tumors.
Operation Heart Without Surgery
The doctors of the Baulker Cardiovascular Surgery Center has succeeded in making an important breakthrough for the medical world by verdict a method without a scalpel surgical procedure to treat disorders such as heart disease that is not normal.
Researcher health problems, explaining the first operation, using electrodes – rather than a scalpel as usual done on a young woman who suffered from morbid heart rhythm since childhood.
“The doctors have made a miracle. I am born again in new life, a life without fear of illness and death, “said Yulia, 30, when out of the hospital three days after surgery. Abnormal heart rate, which is scientifically known as arrhythmia, is more common than congenital heart disease.
This is a condition very painful and can lead to heart failure. “I feel very strange, when the disease is long-lasting with age” explained Julia. He did not think twice to become a volunteer of the operation of this experiment, despite all the risk.
The procedure only takes about one minute to finish everything – exactly 64 seconds, after the previous analysis was preceded with the help of computer equipment, which aims to find the main point of this disease.
During the examination before the operation, three-dimensional model of cardiac patients mapped to assist the surgeon in moving towards this important organ. Read the rest of this entry »