The Buddhist world comprises three broad traditions. Much of
Southeast Asia (Ceylon, Burma, Thailand, Laos and Cambodia) preserves an early form of
Indian Buddhism, the Theravada. A very late and highly evolved expression of Indian
Buddhism, Vajrayana or Tantra, has dominated in Tibet, Mongolia and Nepal. In East Asia,
we find Buddhism greatly transformed at the hands of the Chinese. It is this
“Sinified” form of Buddhism which enters Korea, Japan and Vietnam. Zen is a
product of East Asia. Continue reading ‘How Meditation Works’
Archive for July, 2006
Cranberries, the tart little treasures touted as fighters of urinary tract infections, also contain antioxidants that take a bite out of tooth decay, dental researchers reported here.
According to Hyun Koo, D.D.S., M.S., Ph.D., of the University of Rochester (N.Y.) and colleagues at Rutgers in New Brunswick, N.J., cranberries can protect teeth against the ravages of Streptococcus mutans, the bacteria chiefly responsible for dental caries.
Continue reading ‘Berry Good for Tooth Decay Prevention’
Researchers have used a specialized type of MRI to detect 88 percent of cases of coronary artery disease in a group of patients with chest pain. The results suggest that the imaging technique can detect heart disease as accurately as conventional methods, but with much less risk.
Continue reading ‘A Safer Way to Detect Heart Disease’
A new enzyme originally developed for commercial food processing turns out to also quickly and nearly-completely break down whole gluten molecules as well as the T cell stimulatory peptides that cause celiac disease, a digestive disease with no current effective treatment other than avoiding wheat, barley or rye products.
In addition, the enzyme operates best in just the kind of physiological environment found in the human stomach and works 60 times faster than an earlier promising enzyme, which was not effective in acidic conditions and was inactivated by pepsin, both of which are found in the stomach.
Continue reading ‘New enzyme efficiently degrades gluten’
British health food shops will soon be offering customers iced cannabis tea, its Swiss distributor said.
Sold under the label “C-Ice Swiss Cannabis Ice Tea”, the beverage contains five percent of hemp flower syrup and a tiny (0.0015 percent) quantity of THC, the active ingredient of marijuana.
Continue reading ‘Iced marijuana tea to debut in British health food shops’
