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Slow Down Osteoporosis With a Bone Healthy Diet!
“Your bones are for life. Look after them and they will carry you far.”--Susan Hampshire, U.K. theatre, film and television actress, patron of the National Osteoporosis Society.
by Neharika Sabharwal - October 18, 2011

Osteoporosis is a serious medical condition which makes the bones porous and fragile due to loss of minerals.
Is your daily diet damaging your bone health and leading you to it?

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POSTED August 25, 2011 - 11:42 | POSTED BY Jyoti Pal

Lowering cholesterol without medication

If you thought that statins was the only way to manage cholesterol levels, here’s more. Ditching the low-fat diet and munching cholesterol-lowering foods could do the trick, researchers say.

Cutting down on the low-fat diet and taking in diet rich in cholesterol-friendly foods, such as plant sterols, soy protein, fiber and nuts, help lower LDL (low-density lipoprotein cholesterol), or "ba

POSTED June 17, 2011 - 16:34 | POSTED BY Silky Chandvani

Chinese cows produce 'human breast milk'

Seems impossible? Well, scientists in China have genetically modified cows to synthesize human breast milk-like milk that is 80 percent as nutritious as human milk and could serve as an alternative to powdered or formula milk.

In response to a series of tainted milk scandals that sickened 300,000 infants last year, researchers at the State Key Laboratory of Agrobiotechnology of the China Agricultural University have produced transgenic cows by inserting human genes into cloned cow embryos and then implanting the embryos in surrogate cows.

The technology is similar to that used to produce Dolly the sheep.

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