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Super broccoli may help ward off heart disease

While eating fruits and vegetables is already known to spur good health, eating the new developed ‘super broccoli’ claims to confer even more.

In what may be termed as an agricultural revolution, researchers at the Institute for Food Research in Norwich, England, claim to have grown a new ‘super broccoli’ which is dubbed to be a ‘big nutriti

British royals were 18th century cannibals and vampires?

Striking as it is, the most royal clan on earth has a cannibal past not that old.

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A novel revelation in a book on medicinal cannibalism unveils that the British royalty dwelt on flesh and blood of their own species till the end of 18th century.

About 'Mummies, Cannibals and Vampires'
The book, 'Mummies, Cannibals and Vampires,' restores the lost memory of European corpse medicine history from the Renaissance to the Victorians.

As per the book, monarchs and rich folks in Europe took recourse to medicinal cannibalism in which they potentially gorged on human body parts.

Brisk walks may help improve cerebral blood flow--study

According to a latest study, brisk walking for 30-50 minutes about four times a week may improve cerebral blood flow by 15 percent in elderly women.

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The study of three months, lead by Rong Zhang at the Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital's Institute for Exercise and Environmental Medicine in Dallas, comprised of 16 women aged 60 and older.

"There are many studies that suggest that exercise improves brain function in older adults, but we don't know exactly why the brain improves. Our study indicates it might be tied to an improvement in the supply of blood flow to the brain," said Zhang.

Training to increase blood flow

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