News tagged with nitrite
Research supports calls to study health benefits of nitrate, nitrite
Aug 20, 2009 |
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A Michigan State University researcher is challenging health standards that consider nitrates and nitrites in food to be harmful.
New study shows how spikes in nitrite can have
Mar 03, 2009 |
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A new study provides insight into how a short burst in nitrite can exert lasting beneficial effects on the heart, protecting it from stress and assaults such as heart attacks. In this study, just published in Circulation Re ...
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Research shows a daily does of beetroot juice can beat high blood pressure
Feb 05, 2008 |
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Researchers at Barts and The London School of Medicine have discovered that drinking just 500ml of beetroot juice a day can significantly reduce blood pressure. The study, published online today in the American Heart Association ...
Eating your greens could prove life-saving if a heart attack strikes
Nov 12, 2007 |
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A diet rich in leafy vegetables may minimize the tissue damage caused by heart attacks, according to researchers at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University. Their findings, published in the November ...
Fat transforms vitamin C from 'good cop' into 'bad cop'
Sep 04, 2007 |
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Fat in the stomach may cause vitamin C to promote, rather than prevent, the formation of certain cancer causing chemicals, reveals research published ahead of print in the journal Gut.
Researchers discover new hemoglobin function
Nov 05, 2007 |
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A team of researchers from Wake Forest University, the National Institutes of Health and other institutions has discovered a previously undetected chemical process within the oxygen-carrying molecule hemoglobin that could ...
Fat overrides effects of vitamin C
Apr 02, 2007 |
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Fats in our stomach may reduce the protective effects of antioxidants such as vitamin C. Scientists at the University of Glasgow found that in the presence of lipid the ability of antioxidants, such as ascorbic acid (the ...
New method monitors critical bacteria in wastewater treatment
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Feb 04, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers have developed a new technique using sensors to constantly monitor the health of bacteria critical to wastewater treatment facilities and have verified a theory that copper is ...
When it comes to nitrogen, the 'fix' is in
Jun 09, 2008 |
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The discovery in the last decade of new suites of microorganisms capable of using various forms of nitrogen -- discoveries that have involved a number of University of Washington researchers -- is one reason ...
Researchers find possible environmental causes for Alzheimer's, diabetes
Jul 06, 2009 |
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A new study by researchers at Rhode Island Hospital have found a substantial link between increased levels of nitrates in our environment and food with increased deaths from diseases, including Alzheimer's, diabetes mellitus ...
Elevated nitric oxide in blood is key to high altitude function for Tibetans
Oct 30, 2007 |
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How can some people live at high altitudes and thrive while others struggle to obtain enough oxygen to function?
Continuous, real-time analysis of radioactive waste achieved at PNNL
Sep 13, 2006 |
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An improved monitoring system for providing continuous analysis of high-level radioactive waste has been developed by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory researchers and reported at the national meeting of the American ...
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