The Balkan Chronicle

Simple Steps to Improve Brain and Body Function

Lets look at three recent studies and see how easy it can be to improve ourselves both mentally and physically.

Why guzzling diet drinks could make you FATTER

Diet soft drinks can actually make people fatter, say scientists.
Reaching for the Diet cola is a bad idea for those trying to cut calories - because it may make you want to eat more, according to two studies.
Artificial sweeteners could be to blame, as they were shown to increase blood sugar levels over time, and researchers believe they could also actually trigger the appetite.

Goats' Milk Is More Beneficial To Health Than Cows' Milk, Study Suggests

Researchers have carried out a comparative study on the properties of goats' milk compared to those of cows' milk. They found reason to believe that goats' milk could help prevent diseases such as anemia and bone demineralization. Goats' milk was found to help with the digestive and metabolic utilization of minerals such as iron, calcium, phosphorus and magnesium.

The Art of Jogging

Medical personnel always advice on exercise to keep fit and in shape, and the best exercise is JOGGING or brisk walk for at least 30 minutes daily. Taking jogging for granted will cause your body more harm than good, defeating the whole purpose of investing your time and money to stay in form.

However, slow running or jogging is a simple way to develop cardio-respiratory endurance. You can either do it alone, with a partner, or even in a group. Remember, a good pair of running or sports shoes is the only equipment you need, and finding a place to run or jog is as simple as walking out of your house. Getting a full workout through jogging takes less time than doing aerobic activity. This is because it can be done in almost all types of weather, when on vacation, or at times even during the lunch breaks.

Kids Drinking Raw Milk Have 40% Less Asthma and Allergies: New Large Study

A large European raw milk study published at the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, online August 29, 2011, showing kids who drink raw milk are 41% less likely to suffer from asthma and allergies. The study included 8334 school-aged children, and 7606 of them provided serum samples to assess specific immunoglobulin E (IgE) levels. Over 800 cow's milk samples were collected at the participants' homes. Reuter's article stated:

It is proven now: Alcohol can cuse cancer!

Every 10th cases of cancer diagnosed in men is caused by excessive alcohol consumption, according to a survey conducted by the German Institute of Human Nutrition.

This information is the results of a major European study, published online by the British Medical Journal , which found that up to one in 10 cancers in men and one in 33 in women could be caused by drinking.

Researchers concluded that drinking above recommended alcohol limits was likely to be responsible for the majority of cancer cases linked to alcohol, although for some people even a small consumption may increase the risk.

Health Benefits of Fasting

Beyond its medical importance, this may also be good news to many religious faithful worldwide. Recent findings by researchers have revealed that periodic fasting not only decreases the risk of heart problems and diabetes, but can also lower blood sugar levels.

A recent study conducted by scientists from the Intermountain Medical Centre Heart Institute, United Kingdom showed that fasting could be good for health. "These new findings demonstrate that our original discovery was not a chance event. The confirmation among a new set of patients that fasting is associated with lower risk of these common diseases raises new questions about how fasting itself reduces risk or if it simply indicates a healthy lifestyle," said Benjamin Horne, lead author of the study.

Roles and sources of Vitamin C

To summarize the first article in this series, we continue to be a world of haves and have-nots but in today's version even the haves are suffering and they are suffering from having too much. This too much is too much food but not enough nutrition. The haves can eat all the time but they are choosing to eat the wrong foods and or the empty foods. Empty foods meaning that they are eating but there is no nutritional value in the food that they are choosing to eat, this why we are giving you this information on where to find the whole food sources for the majority of your vitamin and mineral needs.

In this supplement we are covering the systems supported, the benefits to be found and the whole food sources for vitamin C.

Break ‘fast’ a little slowly : Wonders of fasting

Fasting could be best described as voluntary abstinence form taking food for certain period of time. Fasting has both medical and spiritual significance. Beyond these two there are many more interesting facts pertaining to fasting. Fasting is a wonderful gift to the mankind since times immemorial. 'It is one cure to many ailments': experts say!

Importance of the B Vitamins Complex

To summarize the first article in this series, we continue to be a world of haves and have-nots but in today's version even the haves are suffering and they are suffering from having too much. This too much is too much food but not enough nutrition. The haves can eat all the time but they are choosing to eat the wrong foods and or the empty foods. Empty foods meaning that they are eating but there is no nutritional value in the food that they are choosing to eat, this why we are giving you this information on where to find the whole food sources for the majority of your vitamin and mineral needs.

In this supplement article we are covering the benefits to be found and the whole food sources for complex of vitamins B1, B2–Riboflavin, Vitamin B3–Niacin, Vitamin B6, Vitamin B12.