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If you are one of coffee lover, a recent study linked coffee consumption with exciting news. The results of the study concluded that drinking coffee after lunch to reduce the risk of type 2 diabetes, especially for people who are obese.

However, the linkage was not able to further confirmed and no further studies are revealing, if the benefit is obtained from time to drink coffee.

The study is a nutritional research large-scale European citizens involving 69,532 female participants from France. The women who participated were between 41-72 years old when they started the study to 11 years.

During the observation period, 1415 participants suffered diabeter type 2. In general, participants who drank at least three cups of coffee per day, have a risk of 27 per cent lower for diabetes.

Interestingly, the study found that participants who decreased diabetes risk, drink coffee at lunch time. Women who drank more than one cup of coffee after lunch every day, managed to reduce the risk of diabetes by 33 percent.

The researchers say that drinking coffee after lunch may have an advantage because the time or possibly related to the usual food eaten these coffee lovers.

(http://www.republika.co.id - March 11,2010)

MIAMI - The leaves of papaya are not only delicious to be made Urap or lalap. Papaya leaf tea can also be a cancer-fighting weapon whose effects scientists call "very dramatic". "Especially, to kill tumor cells in the body," said researchers from the University of Florida, Nam Dang. Together with his colleagues, he investigated the effects of papaya as anti-cancer and published in the Journal of Ethnopharmacology.

In his research, he limited the effect to the five main types of deadly cancers, namely cervical cancer, breast, liver, lungs, and pancreas. "The effect was unexpected," he said.

In the study Dang, papaya leaf extract is capable of supporting the production of molecules called TH1 type cytokine, which is very useful on a regular basis for the body's immune system. This molecule is also capable of supporting the body against the growth of cancer cells in the five major organs.

Dang is also called, papaya is a tree which is used as a medicinal plant in almost all tribes in the world, especially in Asia. His study habits were inspired in Australian Aboriginal communities and ethnic origin in Vietnam who regularly consume papaya leaf tea.

According to them, papaya extract also did not have any side effects to normal cells. "It could be equivalent with modern cancer treatment" he said.


(http://www.republika.co.id/ March 10,2010)

Carrots have long been considered efficacious improve vision. In fact, recent evidence indicates, green leafy vegetables and colorful fruits have the same efficacy for the eyes.

The results of research by experts from the University of Georgia, published in the Journal of Food Science mentioning green leafy vegetables and colorful fruits can improve visual ability and prevent disease macular degeneration (age-related eye disease).

According to study leader, Billy R. Hammond, PhD, vegetables and fruits contain carotenoids such as lutein and zeaxanthin, which play an important role in vision and has positive benefits for the health of the retina. Lutein and zeaxanthin can be found in spinach and other green vegetables.

"Lutein and zeaxanthin reduce the discomfort due to too blinding light, increasing contrast, and even improve eyesight sharp," said Hammond. He added that 20 kinds of carotenoids found in the body, but only lutein and zeaxanthin in the visual system. That's why these pigments play an important role in the function of human vision.

A study conducted in 2008 also mentioned the pigment that protects the retina and lens of the eye and protect from eye diseases due to aging such as macular degeneration or cataracts.

(http://kesehatan.kompas.com - March 9, 2010)