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I have been gaming since 1992 and building PCs since 2003. I enjoy Linux, supporting FOSS projects and am a tinfoil hat connoisseur.
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Compounds in chili, ginger found to slash risk of lung cancer
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(NaturalNews) Eating a meal containing both chili peppers and ginger may help prevent cancer, according to a study published in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry.
Researchers have long been divided over the cancer-fighting potential of capsaicin, the chemical that gives chili peppers their "burn." Some studies have suggested that diets high in capsaicin might be linked to a higher risk of stomach cancer, yet many other studies have also shown that chili peppers and capsaicin help prevent cancer, instead.
The new study boosts the anti-cancer evidence, finding in particular that the combination of chili pepper and ginger is a more potent preventive than either alone.
Cancer-fighting power dramatically boosted
Previous research had shown that capsaicin and 6-gingerol -- the chemical responsible for the distinctive pungency of ginger -- bind to the same receptor on tumor cells. In the new study, the researchers took mice that were predisposed to develop lung cancer and fed them either capsaicin, 6-gingerol, or a combination of the two chemicals.
The highest number of lung tumors was seen in the mice fed capsaicin alone. A lower number (50 percent) was seen in the mice fed only 6-gingerol. But only 20 percent of the mice fed both compounds went on to develop lung tumors.
The researchers hope to conduct further studies on how the two chemicals interact to affect cancer risk.
Prior studies have also suggested that in addition to helping prevent cancer, capsaicin may also directly kill cancer cells. Studies have shown that capsaicin can kill prostate cancer cells, for example, while leaving healthy prostate cells untouched. A more recent study discovered that capsaicin can bind to the membranes of certain tumor cells, eventually causing the membranes to lose their integrity and break. This may partially explain the effects seen in the recent study.
Ginger alone has also shown the potential as a cancer treatment. Studies have shown that ginger extracts can directly kill breast cancer cells, and may even kill the cancer stem cells responsible for metastasis and much of cancer mortality.
Both foods are also natural painkillers
Ginger and chili peppers don't just taste great together and fight cancer together -- they have also both been shown to act as potent natural painkillers.
One such study was conducted by researchers from the University of Georgia and from Georgia College and State University and published in The Journal of Pain in 2010. The researchers fed volunteers capsules containing two grams of either raw ginger, cooked ("heat-treated") ginger or a placebo for 11 days, then had them engage in a level of exercise designed to induce moderate muscle injury in one arm. For three days before and after the exercise, the researchers measured arm function, inflammation, pain, and a biomarker of pain.
The researchers found that participants in both ginger groups experienced 25 percent less pain following exercise than those who had not been eating ginger. This also shows that ginger's painkilling effects seem to be unaffected by cooking.
A 2009 review published in The Cochrane Library evaluated the evidence for the use of capsaicin creams as treatments for pain and discomfort caused by peripheral neuropathy.
Peripheral neuropathy is caused by dysfunction of nerves outside the central nervous system, and can be caused by health conditions including diabetes, arthritis, shingles and AIDS. Symptoms include tingling, numbness, weakness and burning pain.
The researchers found that about 40 percent of participants gained relief from capsaicin cream, although it did cause undesirable skin irritation in some of those people.
Researchers are also studying the way that the body reacts to the heat and pain caused by hot peppers to attempt to better understand the pain response, with the goal of developing more effective painkillers.
Ginger
(NaturalNews) Eating a meal containing both chili peppers and ginger may help prevent cancer, according to a study published in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry.
Researchers have long been divided over the cancer-fighting potential of capsaicin, the chemical that gives chili peppers their "burn." Some studies have suggested that diets high in capsaicin might be linked to a higher risk of stomach cancer, yet many other studies have also shown that chili peppers and capsaicin help prevent cancer, instead.
The new study boosts the anti-cancer evidence, finding in particular that the combination of chili pepper and ginger is a more potent preventive than either alone.
Cancer-fighting power dramatically boosted
Previous research had shown that capsaicin and 6-gingerol -- the chemical responsible for the distinctive pungency of ginger -- bind to the same receptor on tumor cells. In the new study, the researchers took mice that were predisposed to develop lung cancer and fed them either capsaicin, 6-gingerol, or a combination of the two chemicals.
The highest number of lung tumors was seen in the mice fed capsaicin alone. A lower number (50 percent) was seen in the mice fed only 6-gingerol. But only 20 percent of the mice fed both compounds went on to develop lung tumors.
The researchers hope to conduct further studies on how the two chemicals interact to affect cancer risk.
Prior studies have also suggested that in addition to helping prevent cancer, capsaicin may also directly kill cancer cells. Studies have shown that capsaicin can kill prostate cancer cells, for example, while leaving healthy prostate cells untouched. A more recent study discovered that capsaicin can bind to the membranes of certain tumor cells, eventually causing the membranes to lose their integrity and break. This may partially explain the effects seen in the recent study.
Ginger alone has also shown the potential as a cancer treatment. Studies have shown that ginger extracts can directly kill breast cancer cells, and may even kill the cancer stem cells responsible for metastasis and much of cancer mortality.
Both foods are also natural painkillers
Ginger and chili peppers don't just taste great together and fight cancer together -- they have also both been shown to act as potent natural painkillers.
One such study was conducted by researchers from the University of Georgia and from Georgia College and State University and published in The Journal of Pain in 2010. The researchers fed volunteers capsules containing two grams of either raw ginger, cooked ("heat-treated") ginger or a placebo for 11 days, then had them engage in a level of exercise designed to induce moderate muscle injury in one arm. For three days before and after the exercise, the researchers measured arm function, inflammation, pain, and a biomarker of pain.
The researchers found that participants in both ginger groups experienced 25 percent less pain following exercise than those who had not been eating ginger. This also shows that ginger's painkilling effects seem to be unaffected by cooking.
A 2009 review published in The Cochrane Library evaluated the evidence for the use of capsaicin creams as treatments for pain and discomfort caused by peripheral neuropathy.
Peripheral neuropathy is caused by dysfunction of nerves outside the central nervous system, and can be caused by health conditions including diabetes, arthritis, shingles and AIDS. Symptoms include tingling, numbness, weakness and burning pain.
The researchers found that about 40 percent of participants gained relief from capsaicin cream, although it did cause undesirable skin irritation in some of those people.
Researchers are also studying the way that the body reacts to the heat and pain caused by hot peppers to attempt to better understand the pain response, with the goal of developing more effective painkillers.
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You know what tolerance gets you? Pedo tranny principals at public schools.
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MR needs to purchase a full page ad in every newspaper in America, and post his admission AND APOLOGY.
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My #gnomeshell Mutter MR to support scaling and cropping via KMS landed in time for #gnome46
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/merge_requests/3177
I'm really happy about this one because it should improve things for multiple use-cases:
1. It allows full hardware offloading of fullscreen video playback for cases when the video dimensions don't perfectly match the screen, i.e. up- or downscaling. There are not many clients supporting this yet - but hopefully we'll see more soon, especially #gtk ones.
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Hello, world! 👋 It’s your friendly neighborhood Linux app store here on the Fediverse! Check our profile, we’re verified. 😎
Speaking of which… if you’re an app developer and want to get your app verified on Flathub, check the docs! If you need any help, give us a shout here.
https://docs.flathub.org/docs/for-app-authors/verification
#Flathub #Flatpak #OpenSource #Linux #FOSS #FLOSS #introduction
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Flare 0.12.0 is now out on Flathub and the AUR!
This adds many features and improvements compared to last version, like separate draft messages per chat or higlighting of the selected chat in the sidebar. This release also got a revamped UI for the channel information dialog.
(Note to packagers: Downstream added a new build-dependency `protoc`, this therefore also needs to be added to the build depdendencies of Flare.)
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Railway 2.3.0 is now out on Flathub and the AUR!
This release contains most of our recent work regarding the application to GNOME Circle (there are still a few items left though).
The most important changes in this version are probably many strings changes in the UI, work on updating the remarks-section of journey legs, and displaying the frequency of trains if available.
There were also many minor improvements.
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Meanwhile, the ATF will yank your local mom and pop gun store's FFL if they transpose a single digit on a serial number or fail to notice that you didn't write your middle name in the right spot on a 4473.
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Scythian Gold Double Dragon Torc Necklace from Central Asia (200 BC).
The Dispersian of the Scythian Dragons
"After extending their country Scythia into more western lands beyond the Black Sea, many Scythians migrated into Europe and the Middle Eastern lands as far as Egypt while leaving new Dragon Families and Courts in their wake. The various tribes of Scythians included the Royal Scythians as well as the Ossetians, Pashtuns, Sarmatians, Kazakhs and Yakuts. Once in Europe, these Scythian tribes spread over much of their new continent, eventually separating into the Hungarians, Romanians, the Serbians, the Croatians of the south, as well as the Germans, Picts and Gaels of the north."
From Mark Amaru Pinkham's "An Initiates Guide to the Path of the Dragon"
The Dispersian of the Scythian Dragons
"After extending their country Scythia into more western lands beyond the Black Sea, many Scythians migrated into Europe and the Middle Eastern lands as far as Egypt while leaving new Dragon Families and Courts in their wake. The various tribes of Scythians included the Royal Scythians as well as the Ossetians, Pashtuns, Sarmatians, Kazakhs and Yakuts. Once in Europe, these Scythian tribes spread over much of their new continent, eventually separating into the Hungarians, Romanians, the Serbians, the Croatians of the south, as well as the Germans, Picts and Gaels of the north."
From Mark Amaru Pinkham's "An Initiates Guide to the Path of the Dragon"
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Silver head of a king. Iran, Sasanian Empire, 4th century AD.
Meticulously fashioned from a solitary silver piece, the artifact exhibits intricate chased and repoussé detailing. The monarch adorns himself with understated ovoid earrings and a beaded necklace. Notably, the arresting intensity of the king's gaze and the distinctive contour of his arched nose suggest that the artist's primary intent could have been to convey a sense of regality rather than achieving a precise likeness.
Identification of the specific individual depicted in such relief or sculptural representations often relies upon comparative analysis of facial features and attributes of the crown with those found on contemporaneous Sasanian coinage. In the case of this particular artifact, however, the decorative crescent embellishing the crenellated crown and the intricately striated orb surmounting it do not align precisely with any known counterparts. As a composite of stylistic elements, it can be inferred that this work was likely crafted during the fourth century, potentially during the reign of Shapur II (310–379 AD).
The lower segment of this sculpted head has been excised, whether this was intentional or not, it is inconclusive whether it originally constituted part of a more extensive sculptural ensemble or whether it served as an autonomous decorative bust intended for display.
This artifact is housed by the Metropolitan Museum of Art but is not currently on view.
Meticulously fashioned from a solitary silver piece, the artifact exhibits intricate chased and repoussé detailing. The monarch adorns himself with understated ovoid earrings and a beaded necklace. Notably, the arresting intensity of the king's gaze and the distinctive contour of his arched nose suggest that the artist's primary intent could have been to convey a sense of regality rather than achieving a precise likeness.
Identification of the specific individual depicted in such relief or sculptural representations often relies upon comparative analysis of facial features and attributes of the crown with those found on contemporaneous Sasanian coinage. In the case of this particular artifact, however, the decorative crescent embellishing the crenellated crown and the intricately striated orb surmounting it do not align precisely with any known counterparts. As a composite of stylistic elements, it can be inferred that this work was likely crafted during the fourth century, potentially during the reign of Shapur II (310–379 AD).
The lower segment of this sculpted head has been excised, whether this was intentional or not, it is inconclusive whether it originally constituted part of a more extensive sculptural ensemble or whether it served as an autonomous decorative bust intended for display.
This artifact is housed by the Metropolitan Museum of Art but is not currently on view.
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Fill your curiosity with open source in this weeks Follow Friday and remember to show some love with Boosts and Follows.
https://www.adamsdesk.com/posts/discover-fediverse-curiosity/
- CircuitPython @circuitpython
Python for microcontrollers.
- pnpm @pnpm
Fast, disk space efficient package manager.
- Mojolicious @mojolicious
A real-time web framework.
- Tuist.swift @tuist
Create, maintain, and interact with Xcode projects at scale.
#FollowFriday #fediverse #FreeSoftware #ff #oss #foss #floss #OpenSource
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- https://opencollective.com/matthew-boyd1
I have been gaming since 1992 and building PCs since 2003. I enjoy Linux, supporting FOSS projects and am a tinfoil hat connoisseur.
Many FOSS projects rely on donations. If you have money to spare but don't know which to donate to take a look at the above links on Ko-fi, Github, and Open Collective. Anything on there that I have sponsered or contributed to is something I have found to be worthy.
Joined Feb 2022
