25 Amazing Food Cures

25 Amazing Food Cures

There has been a lot of interest in the media about the health benefits of red wine. It isn't the alcohol in the wine that provides a health benefit but the anti-oxidants, the red wine polyphenols, anthrocyanidins and resveratrol.

Resveratrol, in particular, has been demonstrated to be a potent anti-oxidant (about 20-50 times as effectively as vitamin C alone) and act synergistically with vitamin C enhancing the effects of each. Resveratrol has been demonstrated to have an anti-clotting effect that prevents the formation of thrombi or blood clots in the blood vessels. The formation of thrombi that block small blood vessels is believed to be a cause of heart attacks and strokes. Resveratrol has been demonstrated to have anti-cancer effects as well.

The incidence of heart disease and cancer among populations who consume a lot of red wine is dramatically less than those that don't even though they may also have a high fat diet. Resveratrol has also been demonstrated to promote the formation of new dendrites in the brain. Resveratrol and the other bioflavonoids and polyphenols are present in large amounts in the leaves, twigs and bark of the grape vines. Thus, red wine, which is fermented with the skins, seeds, twigs, etc. tends to contain much larger quantities of the beneficial substances than white wine which is fermented only from the pressed juice of the grape.


http://eatocracy.cnn.com/2010/09/25/enviropig-the-next-transgenic-food/?iref=allsearch

Health

Investigating: HEALTH

Discuss and analyze health, modern and traditional medicine, including key vocabulary and concepts.

Remedies........ Needles....... cure
treatments...... claims ......... prevent
ailments........ longevity .... inhabitants
(part 1 vocabulary on p.133 and part 2 on p.141)

-video of nutrition and traditional foods
-various readings (reading p. 133 & p. 142)

Culminating Activites; Students will design and create a presentation on a topic related to traditional medicine.
Students will also write a paper to accompany their power point presentation.
There will be two vocabulary quizzes (part 1 and part 2)

Traditional Treatments
-Using a vocabulary chart (writing p. 111)
-write a topic sentence for your paper and presentation
-create a Mind Map organizer
-watch and discuss a video about acupuncture

Part 2
advice.....decisions
bacteria..... birth defects.......damage
engineering.......genes....geneticists
parasites......patients
dishonest....fraudulent