Health Blog Yankiki

No one can bail out your health but you. One must make sure that amid all the diving economic figures, your health will stay up there. Here are some tips and pointers on how you can make sure that you and your family will be healthy despite the budget cut:

Go Back to the Basics

Not all expensive foods are nutritious. There are forgotten items in the grocery which are really cheap but can suffice the needs of our bodies. No you don’t have to do with stone soup or fat rich diet to fill you up but it is understandable that we can cut on the steak, creme brulee, and lobster diets. Loads of cholesterol, and not very affordable either!

Those who lost their jobs or struggling on their budget may have to rediscover the aisles of the supermarket for the good old stuff which can deliver the nutrients our body needs. Economical but nourishing foods are all over the supermarket, we just need to learn how to grab them again into our carts.

Extra Effort for Real Food

Experts are suggesting that people must remember the kinds of food that helped us though difficult times in history. Today is not the right time for turning into empty calories but finding the right stuff for the right price.

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A recent research conducted by experts in The Whitehead Institute at Cambridge, Massachusetts reveal that skin cells from patients with Parkinson’s can be converted to the type neurons the disease destroys.

The treatment that is being developed will involve lower risk of cells being rejected by the body since they will be coming from the patient’s own body.

Whitehead scientists recorded success in converting the skin cells of five Parkinson’s patients into neurons that can produce dopamine, the primary neurotransmitter affected by the disease. The lack of dopamine in people with Parkinson’s disease manifest as tremors, rigidity, and difficult slowed movement.

The short term goal of the study is to reproduce dopamine producing cells and expose them to toxins which are suspected to contribute in the development of Parkinson’s. In the long run, the proponents are hoping to use the developed dopamine producing neuron in transplantation to give more meaningful years to potential Parkinson’s patients. The cells of patients afflicted with the disease are shown to have predisposition to it.

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