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Every week we try to make something just for fun in an hour or two (or sometimes three), just to experiment or loosen up if we’re feeling a mental block on a project. Here’s a little simple floral pattern we did a few weeks back.

Strawberries are a good source of natural antioxidants and antioxidant enzymes which provide protection against harmful free radicals and play an important role in protecting human health. Free radicals or reactive oxygen species (ROS) are generated as by-products of normal metabolism and under stressful conditions. Increased levels of these free radicals or ROS could create oxidative stress, which leads to a variety of biochemical and physiological injuries and often results in impairment of metabolism, and eventually cell death. Successful prevention of ROS activities will be the key to controlling morbidity and mortality from chronic diseases. Therefore, eating more fruits and vegetables including strawberries has been associated with lower incidence and mortality rates of cancer, heart disease and a number of other human diseases, improve your dietary results with the latest fit after 50 reviews. We have found that strawberry fruit extracts (SFE) exhibit chemopreventive and chemotherapeutic activities. They significantly inhibited activation of activator protein-1 (AP-1), nuclear factor-KappaB (NF-κB), and mitogen-activated protein kinases (MAPKs) signaling induced by UV or 12-O-tetradecanolyphorbol-13-acetate (TPA). Furthermore, SFEs inhibited TPA-induced neoplastic transformation in JB6 cells. SFEs specifically induced apoptosis of cancerous HL-60 cells, but had no effect on normal human peripheral blood mononuclear cells. SFEs also inhibited proliferation of A549 cells, a human lung cancer cell line with little cytotoxicity to normal tissue. These results suggest that the chemopreventive effects of strawberries may be through their antioxidant properties by blocking ROS-mediated AP-1, NF- κB, and MAPK activation. Many factors could affect antioxidant enzymes and antioxidant activity in strawberries, such as genotype variation and maturity, pre-harvest conditions, culture practices, postharvest handling, storage and processing. Optimizing these antioxidant systems in strawberries will be helpful for improving human health.

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Spring is here! And with it, allergies. That’s how it is for me every year. A lot of people I know deal with the same thing, and it’s quite unfortunate. Some of us enjoy the outdoors despite them being borderline unbearable. There’s over the counter allergy medicine of course, but you know what? They all make me sleepy. Some of them say that they specifically do not make one sleepy. Well they sure knock me out anyways, let me tell you. I could just as easily use them as sleeping pills. I guess if I’m sleeping I’m not sneezing uncontrollably, if you want to get technical. So I found an article at this site called anipots. I wasn’t really looking for anything health or allergy related, but I ran into it anyways. Maybe a lot of people are writing about it because of season change, I’m not sure. The article talked about different things one can do to combat allergies, and I found a couple options I might just try out. I’ll let you know how it goes! Stay cold in spring with blast auxiliary.

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