Friday, 5 September 2008
Olive Leaf Extract Can Help Tackle High Blood Pressure And Cholesterol
The enquiry is published in the latest edition of Phytotherapy Research.
Hypertension is one of the most common and significant disease risk factors imposed by the modern life-style. Many people would thence benefit from finding slipway of reducing blood pressing. Experiments in rats had previously indicated that olive leaf extract could be one path of achieving this end.
To test this in humans, researchers from Switzerland and Germany conducted a pilot trial with 20 identical (monozygotic) twin pairs who had an increased blood pressure. Individuals were either granted placebo capsules or capsules containing doses of 500mg or 1000mg of olive leaf extract EFLA�943. Pairs of twins were assigned to different treatments. After the subjects had taken the draw out for octad weeks researchers measured blood pressures as well as collecting data about aspects of life style.
"The study confirmed that olive folio extract EFLA�943 has antihypertensive drug properties in humans," says one of the co-authors, Cem Aydogan, General Manager, Frutarom Health.
"This whole kit and boodle showed that taking a 1000mg dosage has substantial effects in people with borderline hypertension," says Aydogan.
Full citation: Perrinjaquet-Moccetti T, Busjahn A, Schmidlin C, Schmidt A, Bradl B, Aydogan C. Food Supplementation with and Olive (Olea europea L.) leaf extract reduces blood pressure in borderline hypertensive monozygotic gemini the Twins. Phtotherapy research 2008; 22. DOI: 10.1002/ptr.2455
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Tuesday, 26 August 2008
Maxwell plots first stage of musical return
R&B creative person Maxwell [ ] resurfaces for his first live shows in six eld this fall with a run of dates ahead of his planned "Black Summers' Night" trilogy.
The singer, who hasn't performed since supporting his last studio album, 2001's chart-topping "Now," has lined up a 24-city trek kicking off Oct. 8 in Boston. The picnic, which runs through recent November, besides features dates in New York City (10/9), Chicago (10/18) and Los Angeles (11/1). The complete itinerary is listed below.
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Maxwell described the turn in a press statement as a "pre-party tour celebration" for the forthcoming "Black Summers' Night," a trilogy of studio albums that the artist expects to release over the next tercet years. The first instalment, titled "Black," is due out sometime this year on Columbia, and streaming audio of the showtime track from the set, "Pretty Wings," can be heard at Maxwell's MySpace page.
"Maxwell's still working with Sade's band, his tried and true team," Columbia exec Kyambo "Hip-Hop" Joshua told Billboard last year. "He took some clip off and now he's ready."
The singer's previous record album, "Now," has sold more than 1.7 copies in the US alone, according to Nielsen SoundScan.
[Note: The undermentioned tour dates have been provided by artist and/or tour sources, who verify its accuracy as of the publication time of this chronicle. Changes english hawthorn occur earlier go on sale. Check with official artist websites, ticketing sources and venues for tardy updates.]
October 20088 - Boston, MA - Opera House 9 - New York, NY - Radio City Music Hall10 - Wallingford, CT - Chevrolet Theater14 - Cincinnati, OH - Taft Theater 15 - St. Louis, MO - Fox Theater 17 - Indianapolis, IN - Murat Theater 18 - Chicago, IL - Chicago Theater 19 - Detroit, MI - Fox Theater 21 - Minneapolis, MN - Orpheum Theater 22 - Omaha, NE - Music Hall 23 - Kansas City, MO - Uptown Theater 25 - Denver, CO - Paramount Theater 28 - Oakland, CA - Paramount Theater 31 - Las Vegas, NV - Pearl November 20081 - Los Angeles, CA - Shrine Auditorium6 - Houston, TX - Verizon Theater 8 - Dallas, TX - Majestic Theater 10 - Birmingham, AL - BJCC Hall 11 - Memphis, TN - Orpheum Theater 12 - Atlanta, GA - Civic Center 14 - Greensboro, NC - War Memorial 15 - Richmond, VA - Landmark Theater 17 - Washington, D.C. - Constitution Hall 21 - Philadelphia, PA - Susquehanna Center
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Thursday, 7 August 2008
Birth Defect Three To Four Times More Likely For Infants Born To Diabetic Women, Study Says
According to the AP/Mercury News, the study -- which used hospital data from 1997 to 2003 in 10 states -- provides the most detailed information on the kinds of conditions experienced by infants of diabetic women. The CDC researchers who conducted the study listed nearly 40 kinds of birth defects found to be significantly more than likely infants born to diabetic women than other infants.
The study compared 13,000 births that involved a major mar and compared them with 5,000 randomly selected births that did not involve a major defect. Researchers asked pregnant women if they had been diagnosed with diabetes earlier or during their pregnancies.
Janis Biermann -- senior frailty president for education and health furtherance at the March of Dimes -- said the list of defects was longer than previously understood, adding, "It adds more information around the specific types of birth defects associated with pre-gestational diabetes and gestational diabetes" (Stobbe, AP/San Jose Mercury News, 7/30).
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Monday, 30 June 2008
MTV: Britney Could Return to VMAs
If Britney Spears is serious about making a comeback, she can prove herself this September at the Video Music Awards.
Despite last year's reviled, head-scratching, lip-synching performance the singer put forth, MTV claims it'll never say "no" to Britney Spears.
''Everyone deserves a second or third chance, right?'' Van Toffler, president of MTV Networks Music Group, says.
Don't get too excited though. Van admits that he was "sorta" kidding about welcoming Brit back with open arms.
"Who knows?" he adds.
Last September, a bikini-adorned, uncoordinated Britney opened the network's marquee award show with a lackluster performance of her new single, "Gimme More."
"She looked lost and confused," a VMA audience member told OK! at the time. "She was definitely not into it. People were shaking their heads and wondering what happened."
If the 26-year-old is invited back, she won't have to travel far to attend the ceremony. After stints in New York, Miami and Las Vegas last year, the VMAs are returning to Los Angeles this year.
Van says producers and crew members are already planning the show, but know they have their work cut out for them.
''I'm not sure how we top Britney opening the show,'' he says. ''We are working on it every minute of every day.''
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Tuesday, 24 June 2008
Britney Spears Fears Early Death
Biographer and journalist Ian Halperin spent 18 months studying the Toxic singer as an undercover paparazzo, getting close to the star and her inner circle.
And now he's writing all about his findings in a new book which he hopes to have on shelves by Christmas.
Amid all the claims of drug abuse, bipolar problems and suicidal tendencies, Halperin states Spears told him personally she fears she will die at 27.
The biographer, who ironically penned a book about Kurt Cobain - who lost his life at 27, tells Life & Style magazine, "She told me she feared she'd die at age 27 (her current age), just like other music stars, like Janis Joplin and Kurt Cobain."
Joplin and Cobain aren't the only members of the sinister 27 Club - rock greats Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison and Brian Jones all perished before their 28th birthday.
Spears turns 28 on 2 December.
Sunday, 15 June 2008
DJ Orgasmix and Cano Beat
Artist: DJ Orgasmix and Cano Beat
Genre(s):
Breakbeat
Discography:
Like An Angel and Space Vinyl
Year: 2003
Tracks: 3
 
Tuesday, 3 June 2008
Aggie is booted off Dancing on Ice
The television star was forced to compete in the skate-off against javelin champion Steve Backley when they were both placed in the bottom two as a result of the public vote.
All of the five judges chose to save Backley, sending home MacKenzie.
Member of the judging panel Jason Gardiner said: "I wish we could get rid of both of them."
Tuesday, 27 May 2008
R Kelly trial: Day Seven
Aubrey Hampton, a childhood friend of both the alleged victim and yesterday�??s witness Simha Jamison today took to the stand and told the court how she became friends with the victim and Jamison through basketball.
Hampton said she recognised her former friend�??s face, haircut, voice and mannerisms, including how she bit her lower lip. She said she was certain it was her.
Hampton said she had seen an earlier copy of the tape, but her mother discovered it and threw it away.
Hampton�??s mother, Mary K. Jerit, an employee at the Department of Children and Family Services was also a witness today and told the court that she did not report the tape to child services, but did enquire if it was being investigated.
Meanhwhile, a woman was arrested today for shouting �??Free R Kelly.!�?? while standing inside the courthouse close to where jury members were leaving an elevator. Shouting such things within close proximity to the jury is considered contempt of court and the woman�??s bail was set at $50,000 with a hearing scheduled for June 25.
--By our New York staff.
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Tuesday, 20 May 2008
Housewives star dismisses baby rumours
Housewives star dismisses baby rumours
'Desperate Housewives' star Eva Longoria-Parker has denied rumours that she is pregnant.
According to People magazine, the actress dismissed the meditation at a publicity event for her freshly movie 'Over Her Dead Body'.
Longoria-Parker said: "No pregnancy, not yet. I've been cooking and eating, cooking and eating. I keep recounting everyone that I've gained 10 pounds precisely being on strike [a computer address to the Hollywood writers' strike]."
The actress sparked further rumours when she arrived at a weigh day with a pink baby mantle wrapped about her.
When asked about the cover, she said: "I know - If this isn't expiration to spawn gestation rumours, I don't know..."
She continued: "I was freeze, so I had to run down to the gift snitch, and they didn't have any wraps. I grabbed this and was like, 'It's so soft, only wherefore is it so small?!' And they said, 'It's for a baby'."
The 'Desperate Housewives' star has spoken about having a kinsperson with her basketball player married man Tony Parker in the future tense.
She said: "I imply, we're non very on a time clock, and sledding, 'Okay, this month, this day. We're sort of simply departure, 'We're so happy if we drive pregnant, and if we don't we're okey.' We're just now rental God settle it."
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Wednesday, 7 May 2008
High School Musical star rushed to hospital
High School Musical star rushed to hospital
Zac Efron was rushed to hospital yesterday suffering from appendicitis, his publiciser has confirmed.
The 'High Schooling Musical' star had emergency surgical procedure at the Cedars Sinai Peninsula Medical examination Centre in Los Angeles, and is said to be doing well.
Efron became a adolescent heartthrob with his starring office as Troy Bolton in the hit Disney film 'High School Musical' and its continuation. He too starred in the photographic film 'Hairspray'.
He was hospitalised a sidereal day after Walt Walt Disney Studios announced that he and his 'High School Musical' co-stars had signed on to appear in the histrionics motion-picture show 'High School Musical 3: Senior Year'.
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Thursday, 24 April 2008
November 17
Artist: November 17
Genre(s):
Other
Discography:
Trust No One
Year: 2000
Tracks: 10
Having been often mistaken for the terrorist arrangement under the care refer since their formation in 1995, November 17 would rather look at themselves "sonic terrorists" in their habitation of Phoenix, AZ. Consisting of Trevor Asknew (vocals), Grade Keltner (guitar/programming), Chris Cannella (guitar), Damon (bass), and
Baby on the way for Wonder Years star
Baby on the way for Wonder Years star
'The Wonder Years' star Fred Savage and his wife Jennifer Stone have announced that they are expecting a second child together.
According to People magazine, Savage revealed the good news at the Directors Guild of America Awards at the weekend.
The actor said: "We've got number two cooking right now," while pointing to his wife's bump.
Savage revealed that the baby is due in May but his wife said that they would be keeping the baby's sex and name secret.
The couple already have a son, Oliver, who was born in August 2006.
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Monday, 21 April 2008
Thursday, 17 April 2008
'Forgetting Sarah Marshall' Star/Writer Jason Segel Has A Terrifying Run-In With A Future Co-Star
'Forgetting Sarah Marshall' Star/Writer Jason Segel Has A Terrifying Run-In With A Future Co-Star
They order that a motion-picture show stern merely be as trade good as its news report. On Friday, millions of theatergoers testament follow in the footsteps of those world Health Organization made "Superbad" and "Knocked Up" big hits, going away to examine "Forgetting Sarah Marshal" with hopes that a character's invariable run-ins with his ex will yield however another Judd Apatow funniness classic.
Only behind the scenes, one story crataegus laevigata have been even punter. "Did you ever hear the Claw history?" director Saint Nicholas Stoller asked late, train himself up. "Oh, you've got to expect Jason about that one."
He's referring to Jason Segel, the fast-rising star of "Marshall" and the tally situation comedy "How I Met Your Mother," wHO as well wrote the photographic film around a downtrodden dumpee wHO runs crosswise the circuit breaker of his heart (Kristen Bell) and her fresh fellow (Russell Brand) patch on a Hawaiian holiday.
"Yea," the 28-year-old funnyman sighed when asked around the taradiddle. "That was really the strangest coincidence of completely fourth dimension."
"Jason spent a mates months in the summer [in front we shooting the film] working in a house on the North Shore [of Oahu], where he was composition the first-class honours degree draft of the script," Stoller remembered. "This ultimate attack aircraft named Claw trained on the beach nearby and wrapped these mattress-pad-like things about a palm tree, and he'd just beat the sh-- come out of the closet of the pads wholly day. At that place were these girls walk land the beach, and when girls would walk past [Segel's porch], he would lift his beer up and say, 'Hi.' Well, these chicks said, 'No!' — and they said it rattling earnestly."
"Spell I was writing the film I accidentally flirted with this young woman, world Health Organization turned out to be [dating] the scariest isle of Man I experience ever so met," Segel confirmed. "He was an ultimate battler, and he essentially threatened to stupefy the sh-- come out of me."
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Fun Da Mental
Artist: Fun Da Mental
Genre(s):
Other
Discography:
With Intent To Pervert The Cause Of Injustice
Year:
Tracks: 12