Sentences with phrase «fight disease among»

There are people looking after these animals and trying to bring the numbers down as well as fight disease among the animals.

Not exact matches

Chief among them, perhaps, is Omada Health, which in September added a $ 48 million third round of financing to fight obesity - related chronic disease, which is estimated to cost the economy $ 500 billion a year.

Juice is brimming with brilliant phytochemicals, which are the substances in plants that are among the most powerful ways to fight disease.

VAD can damage the immune system and decrease the body's ability to resist or fight infections, therefore increasing the risk of mortality from common diseases especially among young children.

Based on his experience as a marine ecologist and Congressional Fellow, he authored «Learning from the Octopus: How Secrets from Nature Can Help Us Fight Terrorist Attacks, Natural Disasters, and Disease» (2012), among several other recent books.

The substantial amounts of antibiotics given to farm animals are among the reasons bacteria are becoming more resistant to medicine's disease - fighting vaccine arsenal

These so - called allelochemicals are used to, among other things, attract pollinators, fend off herbivores and pests, fight diseases and keep unwelcome competitors away.

«Promoting such lively and fruitful exchange among researchers greatly strengthens our fight against brain diseases,» said Mucke, who hosted the event.

Among them are mechanical engineers, microbiologists, environmental chemists and marine ecologists, as well as immunologists and scientists engaged in fighting tropical and infectious diseases.

He yields to no one in his accomplishments and in his efforts to bring all the resources of the nation to bear in fighting cancer and other diseases, to reigning in the tobacco industry, and to extending health insurance coverage to all Americans, especially the most vulnerable among us.»

If you're not among these 158 million, you might want to consider swapping dark roast for loose leaf, and here's why: Tea is rich in one of the best - known flavonoids called catechins, a type of disease - fighting antioxidant that has shown to reduce the risk of heart disease, stroke, certain cancers, and dental caries (i.e., tooth decay and cavities), as well as aid weight loss.

Among these are genes that regulate stress, our ability to fight disease, our sleep - wake cycles, inflammation, and aging.

Measurements show that the cranberry has more disease - fighting antioxidants than strawberries, spinach, broccoli, apples, and cherries, among others.

Curcumin is a potent agent in the fight against colon cancer, an insidious form of the disease that ranks second among cancer deaths taking the lives of more than 50,000 Americans each year.

Curcumin is taking its rightful place among a small handful of agents that fight cancer at the genetic level by inhibiting ten critical initiation steps necessary for development and progression of the disease.

Plants contain generous amounts of cancer - fighting anti-oxidants and phytonutrients that demonstrate a genuine ability to protect and even reverse cancer, among other chronic diseases.

I have a physician friend into integrative health who shared an interesting perspective regarding the mitochondria cells not getting proper sulfur protein (among other nutrients) on a vegan diet in order to properly fuel themselves and fight off diseases like Barrett's.

Spay / neuter decreases the fight for resources among stray animals, preventing the spread of diseases like the deadly parvo virus and reducing mating related aggression which can often lead to dogs being rounded up and put into public shelters where they have little chance of survival.

Kittens and young cats primarily get the disease from their mother, grooming, or fighting — primarily among cats who go outdoors or multi-cat households.

He suffered from a type of Babesia common among fighting dogs; he and many of his fellow Vicktory dogs arrived with the disease, carried by a blood parasite spread through bite wounds.

Among his many accomplishments, Carter has helped to fight disease and improve economic growth in developing nations and has served as an observer at numerous political elections around the world.