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Powered by olive stones? Turning waste stones into fuel
Oct 29, 2008 |
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Olive stones can be turned into bioethanol, a renewable fuel that can be produced from plant matter and used as an alternative to petrol or diesel. This gives the olive processing industry an opportunity to make valuable ...
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Drinking green tea helps prevent kidney stones
Nov 13, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Drinking green tea can help prevent the formation of large kidney stones, report Chinese scientists in the Royal Society of Chemistry journal CrystEngComm.
Source of major health benefits in olive oil revealed
Apr 02, 2009 |
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Scientists have pinned down the constituent of olive oil that gives greatest protection from heart attack and stroke. In a study of the major antioxidants in olive oil, Portuguese researchers showed that one, DHPEA-EDA, protects ...
Prehistoric site found near UK's Stonehenge
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Oct 03, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Archaeologists have discovered a smaller prehistoric site near Britain's famous circle of standing stones at Stonehenge.
Is bilateral liver resection safe for bilateral intrahepatic stones?
Aug 06, 2009 |
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A research article to be published on August 7, 2009 in the World Journal of Gastroenterology addresses this question. In the present study, 101 consecutive patients with bilateral intrahepatic stones who underwent bilate ...
Of mice and men... and kidney stones
Mar 01, 2008 |
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Kidney stones are very common – and painful – in men. About 3 in 20 men (1 in 20 women) in developed countries develop them at some stage. Mice, however, rarely suffer though the precise reasons are unknown. Jeffrey S. Clark ...
How to ... avoid kidney stones
Jul 17, 2009 |
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These solid masses that form in the kidneys can grow big enough to cause severe pain and even infection as they pass into the urinary tract.
Proposal to reintroduce Iberian lynx on abandoned agricultural land
Sep 17, 2009 |
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Spanish scientists have developed a model to identify the agricultural areas with the greatest potential for restoring the habitat of the Iberian lynx (Lynx pardinus), which is at risk of extinction. The st ...
Olive leaf extract can help tackle high blood pressure and cholesterol
Aug 27, 2008 |
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Taking 1000mg of a specific olive leaf extract (EFLA®943) can lower cholesterol and lower blood pressure in patients with mild hypertension (high blood pressure). These findings came from a 'Twins' trial, in which different ...
New anti-cancer components of extra-virgin olive oil revealed
Dec 18, 2008 |
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Good quality extra-virgin olive oil contains health-relevant chemicals, 'phytochemicals', that can trigger cancer cell death. New research published in the open access journal BMC Cancer sheds more light on the suspected associ ...
Daily potassium citrate wards off kidney stones in seizure patients on high-fat diet
Jul 21, 2009 |
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Children on the high-fat ketogenic diet to control epileptic seizures can prevent the excruciatingly painful kidney stones that the diet can sometimes cause if they take a daily supplement of potassium citrate the day they ...
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