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Difficult of " to compare the apples and oranges" when one browses the alleys at the grocery store. But a new nutritional indication, elaborate to the United States, could permit to value, in a glance, the global qualities of a food. And to make more illuminated choices!

The principle is simple:  like the school bulletins, every food raises a note encoded on the before the label, according to a variable indication of 1 to 100 (100 being the optimal note).

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Some food would contribute to reduce the risks of breast cancer, while others would aggravate them, even at the women whom there is predisposed genetically, conclude researchers of the university of Montreal.

Vishnu Bissonauth, student to the doctorate to the Department of nutrition, is one of the authors of the survey. It counted 24 epidemiological studies treating the relation between the breast cancer and different groups of food, published between 1997 and 2007. Although several studies arrive to opposite results, the searcher arrives to the following findings:

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The monitoring of capsules audio of relaxation would permit to reduce the arterial tension, at people suffering from hypertension.

It is what of the American researchers who presented the results of a étude1 comparing the effect of a relaxation program indicated audio on the arterial tension, to the monitoring of Mozart’s sonata.

Two groups of 20 aged people and hypertensive’s participated in the clinical test. The first group had to listen to a capsule of relaxation of 12 minutes, at the rate of three times per week during four months. The participants of the second group followed the same orders, but listened to Mozart’s sonata.

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The arthroscopie of the knee would not prove to be more efficient than physiotherapy combined to the hold of anti-inflammatory, to relieve the pains of the osteopathic of the knee, nor to improve the working of the joint.

It is what of the Canadian researchers who led a survey by 188 adults suffering from osteopathic of the moderate intensity knee to elevated, to lead their, conclude.

All participants have been assigned to a program of physiotherapy, combined to anti-inflammatory. Half among them has been chosen at random to undergo an arthroscopie of the knee

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To control his/her/its weight thanks to food to weak energizing density, it is " more that a truth of the Palice", affirm Angelo Tremblay, titular of the Chair of research of Canada in physical activity, nutrition and energizing balance in the Laval university.

The advantage to consume the food of which the report of the calories on the volume is weak, as most fruits and vegetables and the whole grains, made consensus among the researchers, it adds. " The weak caloric density of food is associated to good food practices that predict a least gain of weight with the passing of the years", explain the researcher, as specialist of the obesity.

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Would be able to himself him that one day the dentists distribute the essential oil of lavender in their waiting room to calm their anxious patients?

It is what a British searcher who noted suggests that this oil, used in aromatherapy, reduced the symptoms of anxiety felt exactly by the patients before their appointment.

After having installed a distributor of essential oils in the waiting room of a dental clinic, one submitted two questionnaires to a total of 340 patients, whose half has been exposed to the odors of the lavender oil.

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