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The Health Benefits of Apples

As the proverb goes: “An apple a day keeps the doctor away.” Modern research has also confirmed that eating apples helps prevent diseases, including diabetes, cardiovascular disease, asthma, diabetes, and several types of cancer. The nutritional content of different varieties varies greatly, and some common ways of eating them will significantly reduce their benefits. In ...

Emma Lu

Gala apples in a small wooden crate.

Coenzyme Q10: A New Way to a Healthy Heart

Why do you lack energy and vitality? Low coenzyme Q10 levels might be the answer to this question. What is coenzyme Q10?  Coenzyme Q10 (or CQ10) is an antioxidant that your body produces naturally. Your cells use CQ10 for growth and maintenance. It is a coenzyme that exists at a cellular level, and it works to stimulate mitochondria ...

Billy Shyu

Elderly couple holding hands.

Antioxidant Vegetables: Sweet Potato Leaves

Sweet potato leaves contain a variety of nutrients, such as carotene, lutein, vitamins A and C, potassium, calcium, magnesium, iron, and cellulose. The Compendium of Materia Medica notes that sweet potato leaves have a sweet taste and can replenish qi with mild medicinal properties, and have functions such as moisturizing, nourishing, nourishing blood, and stopping ...

Helen London

Growing sweet potato leaves.

The Antioxidant Benefits of Sleep

In a new study published in the open-access journal PLOS Biology, Vanessa Hill, Mimi Shirasu-Hiza, and colleagues at Columbia University, New York, found that short-sleeping fruit fly mutants shared the common defect of sensitivity to acute oxidative stress, and thus that sleep supports antioxidant processes. Understanding sleep has become increasingly important in modern society, where ...

Troy Oakes

A cartoon of a sleeping fruit fly.