Anti-Stress Meal

Because of heap of work and high life demand, many career women easily get stress. How can they avoid it? The answer is choose carefully your food. According to Dr. Tecce of Nutrients Study Center, Boston University, USA, food that contains vitamin B and C can help overcome stress condition stres.

There is also a kind of food called comfort food that is capable to raise comfort feeling because it improve serotin level in brain. The food usually contains high carbohydrate such as baked potatoes and wheat bread.

However, how much food must be consumed, it depends on every one metabolism. It is better to take counsel with nutritionist. because if we consume it without rule, body weight can leap.

New Therapy for Tuberculosis Patient

Many researchers believe they have found a new tuberculosis medicine. The wonderful medicine is a free telephone pulse. For years, many doctors struggled to make tuberculosis patients constantly consume their medicines at least for six months respectively.

Currently, a research held by MIT student (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) has developed the use of cellular phone.

How this can happen? The patients will get free telephone pulse if they obediently follow doctor guidance. The patients must examine their urine using paper strip designed to be able to show a numeric code if their really urine contains tuberculosis medicine. The code then can be sent via sms by the patients in order that they get a free telephone pulse for several minutes.

By this way, patients are motivated to consume their medicines and examine their urine respectively to prove they have ate their medicine. Meanwhile, the doctors will easily know that their patients have drank their medicine, because if they send the code via sms, it means that they have drank their medicine.

Lick Your Wound, It will Recover!

You do not ever think that dog or cat instinct to lick their wound can be proved scientifically. They lick their wound and then they recover in a few days. Their unique customs make some Dutch researchers examine a compund in salliva, especially human salliva. The compund is predicted enable to faster wound recovery.

Researchers team finds that histatin, a small protein in salliva which previously believed it can kill bacteria, has responsible to the recovery. The research result is then published in the newest edition of Journal of Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB). The invention clearly gives hope to the patients who has chronic injury in connection with diabetes, traumatic wound, and burn. Furthermore, because there is possibility it can be produced massively, the substance can be shaped as an antibiotic cream or linement.

'We hope the findings benefits for everyone who has unhealing wounds, such as ulcer on foot, diabetes injury, and it is also useful for traumatic injury medication like burned injury." said Gerald Weissmann, Editorial Chief of FASEB. The reseach also reveals why wound because of tooth withdrawl recover faster than wound at skin and bone.

Translated and edited from: Kompas Online

Training bacteria Eating Caffeine in Coffee

Scientist now is training bacteria to eat and destroy caffeine contains in coffee plant. if this is successful, we will enjoy drinking coffee with no caffeine but still has its comfort flavour.

Coffee contains many caffeine because coffee plant produces coffee fastly but its proccess to destroy its caffeine is very slow," explain Justin Gallivan, chemical scientist from Emory University at Atlanta, USA.

"We will create bacteria that can destroy caffeine fastly. That is why we will create bacteria depending on how they live in caffeine." he explains.

Galllivan and Shaw Desai, a university student, find a way to install bacteria with theophylline. Theophylline is a compound made for destroying caffein on coffee and tea plants.

According to American Chemical Society October edition, most coffee which has low caffeine is made using chemical solution which can absorb caffeine in coffee seeds. There is also a technic called "Swiss Water Process" using hot water and steam to
separate caffeine from coffee seeds.

"The bacteria's life depends on theophylline. However, they do not know how to fabricate it themselves. We will train bacteria to produce theophylline needed to destroy caffeine," he said.

The bacteria which has gene that can convert caffeine into theophylline will survive. The scientists hope they can isolate the gene and make caffeine annihilation proccess faster. However, it still needs years more to make the bacteria successful in producing coffee without caffeine with natural and delicious flavour.

Translated from Jawa Pos