An interesting article when I first brought up Netscape....Scientists from the U of California, Los Angeles and the Greater Los Angeles Veteran Affairs Healthcare System have been researching the spice Curcumin. Curcumin is a component of the yellow curry spice Tumeric, it seems they are finding in their testing on eldery mice that the spice reduces deposits of beta-amyloid protein in the brain which is the cause of Alzheimer's. They tested it because in India where the spice is a dietary staple Alzheimer's is very low. Linda115's post about Protandin said that Tumeric is one of the ingredients of the pill. I have read that Tumeric is used to treat many health problems. It may be true after all "Our food is our medicine" It's a lot more fun to eat then to take pills isn't it?
Another one that seems to work at lowering cholesterol is cinnamon capsules . Only 1 gram a day does it . The USDA research arm did a study on this and found out it lowers cholesterol, ldl and triglycerides . I decided to try this and less than 2 months into this and my total was down 40 points . Had no effect on hdl though . I plan on keeping on taking this though . Go to the USDA webpage and do a search on cinnamon,cholesterol .
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