Showing posts with label Malaria. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Malaria. Show all posts

Thursday, 8 August 2019

Lime Juice Could Save 100's of Thousands of Lives Each Year

Lime Juice Could Save 100's of Thousands of Lives Each Year:

Recently I posted an article about Lemons and their health benefits, today it is Limes that are a wonderful source of good for our health!

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Lime Juice Could Save Millions of Lives Each Year
While billions of dollars are poured into research and development for pharmaceutical drugs, the humble lime has been proven to mitigate and even cure diseases that cause millions to suffer and hundreds of thousands to die each year worldwide.

The lime is best know for its role in key lime pie and margaritas, but did you know it possesses remarkable healing properties as well?

An impressive array of research on lime juice from the National Library of Medicine indicates that it could either cure or greatly accelerate healing time from a variety of life-threatening illnesses including:
  • Sickle cell anemia (SCA): According to the CDC, SCA afflicts about 95,000 Americans and is diagnosed in 1 in every 500,000 African-American births. A hereditary blood disorder, SCA is characterized by an abnormality in the oxygen-carrying hemoglobin molecule in red blood cells. A clinical trial on lime juice was recently found to reduce painful episodes (50.0% lime juice intervention versus 92.7% control); febrile illness (46.6% lime juice intervention versus 87.3% control) and hospital admission rate (3.4% lime juice intervention versus 34.5% control) for sickle cell anemia in children.
  • Malaria: Malaria is a mosquito-borne parasitic disease, which the WHO estimates causes 219 million of illness resulting in 660,000 deaths each year. A wide range of highly toxic drugs are used to treat the disease, but a recent study found that lime juice greatly increased malarial clearance when combined with standard drug therapy.[1]   They concluded: "lime juice when used with the appropriate antimalarial may enhance malaria parasite clearance especially in those with uncomplicated malaria."
  • Bacterial Agents In Food: A recent study found that the popular food known as ceviche, naturally containing pathogenic agents from fish, could be completely sanitized with lime juice. Both Vibrio parahaemolyticus and Salmonella enterica (two common causes of food poisoning) were all reduced to below detection limits through the addition of lime extract.[2]
  • Disinfecting water: Lime has been found to enhance the disinfection of water, by both killing norovirus as well as Escherichia coli.[3] Lime has also been found to kill the cholera pathogen, which is believed to affect 3–5 million people and causes 100,000–130,000 deaths a year as of 2010.[4]
  • Killing pancreatic cancer: Pancreatic cancer is a notoriously difficult to treat type of cancer. Lime juice was found to induce programmed cell death in pancreatic cancer cells.[5]
  • Stopping Smoking: Likely the most preventable cause of death on this planet, a clinical trial comparing nicotine gum to lime juice extract found "Fresh lime can be used effectively as a smoking cessation aid."[6

Friday, 12 June 2015

The Pros and Cons Of Genetically Modified Mosquitos

 Even insects are genetically modified nowadays but all in order to protect the human population from disease.  As this procedure has been somewhat satisfactory with Olive Flies it is nevertheless interesting to learn about the pros and cons of this procedure.


Genetically Modified Mosquitos

Tuesday, 26 August 2014

Mosquito Bites And How to Prevent Them

 Here is good advice if you are prone to be bitten by Mosquitos each summer or if you are living in a hot climate where this is a regular threat.  Of course there is the danger of Malaria in hot climates and so it is doubly important to protect yourself.
 
Simple Preventives on How to Avoid Mosquito Bites