High-GI Carbohydrate Help You Fall In Sleep

High-glycemic-index carbohydrate meals shorten sleep onset:

"Conclusions: We showed that a carbohydrate-based high-GI meal resulted in a significant shortening of SOL in healthy sleepers compared with a low-GI meal and was most effective when consumed 4 h before bedtime. The relevance of these findings to persons with sleep disturbance should be determined in future trials."

SOL - sleep onset latency

Choline And Betaine Reduces Inflammation

WHFoods: Eggs:

"Eggs' Choline Reduces Inflammation

People whose diets supplied the highest average intake of choline (found in egg yolk and soybeans), and its metabolite betaine (found naturally in vegetables such as beets and spinach), have levels of inflammatory markers at least 20% lower than subjects with the lowest average intakes, report Greek researchers in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition (Detopoulou P, Panagiotakos DB, et al.)"

Selenium Could Help Prevent Diabetes

French study shows selenium could help prevent diabetes:

"French researchers have found that selenium, known for its cancer-preventing power and anti-aging benefits, may also have another crucial application: The prevention of diabetes."

DIM From Broccoli And Other Brassica Vegetables Prevents Metastasis In Mice

DIM From Broccoli And Other Brassica Vegetables Prevents Metastasis In Mice - Food for Breast Cancer:

"This study extends the result of a previous 2005 study which found that DIM inhibited the growth of transplanted human breast cancer cells in mice. Numerous other studies have found that DIM reduces the growth, proliferation and migration of human breast cancer cells in the laboratory"

Green tea protect against oxidative damage

Consumption of green tea favorably affects oxidative stress markers in weight-trained men:

Consumption of GT (Green tea), a beverage rich in polyphenols, may offer protection against the oxidative damage caused by exercise.

Lifespan Essential Foods

Lifespan Essential Foods:

Professor Gary Williamson highlight twenty 'lifespan essential foods', vital for living as long and healthy a life as possible. All these foods are high in polyphenols.

According to Gary Williamson the top 20 Lifespan Essential Foods are:

apples
blackberries
black tea
blueberries
broccoli
cereal bran
cherries
cherry tomatoes
coffee
cranberries
dark chocolate
green tea
oranges
peaches
plums
raspberries
red grapes
red onions
spinach
strawberries

Antioxidants Can Impair Muscle Function

Some Antioxidants Reduce Vasodilators:

"Antioxidant therapies that reduce levels of vasodilators will reduce oxygen delivery to muscle.

'We're now learning that if antioxidant therapy takes away hydrogen peroxide – or other naturally occurring vasodilators, which are compounds that help open blood vessels – you impair the body's ability to deliver oxygen to the muscle so that it doesn't work properly,' Poole said.

The body produces free radicals to serve signaling functions. Unfortunately these same free radicals damage us."