Sentences with phrase «protect against disease for»

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She has the powers to «guard the boundaries of her territory, to protect all those inside these boundaries against disease in humans and cattle, particularly epidemic disease, and to bring rain for those who worship her.»

It has an abundance of carotenoids and beta - carotene that is great for eye health and also helps protect against heart disease.

It is well known that all blueberries are loved for their flavor and their high antioxidant capacity pleasing taste buds and helping to protect against disease and age - related health risks.

Packed with phytochemicals such as anthocyanin, Wild Blueberries are being studied for their powerful antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties that may help protect against diseases such as cancer, heart disease, diabetes and Alzheimer's.

Eggs — Once demonized for their possible link to higher cholesterol and heart disease, eggs are gaining in popularity now that it has been shown that they actually help protect against heart disease.

Antioxidants are so beneficial for our bodies because they boost the immune system, protect against free radical damage and degenerative diseases, and help slow the ageing process — win!

Conveniently, pure orange juice is also a source of the B - vitamin folate, needed for white blood cells (that protect the body against infectious disease) to rapidly reproduce.»

For most vacation destinations in Canada, the U.S., Mexico, the Caribbean, South America, Europe, and Australia, your routine immunizations are enough to protect your child against diseases and illnesses that have been mostly eradicated in North America, but are still very much present in some parts of the world.

Ameda was also the first to put backflow protectors on their milk collection kits — a huge improvement in hygine standards, protecting against transmissible diseases, and preventing mould from entering the breast pump motor and making them suitable for multiple users.

it's just, it's perfect for them and it really helps kind of coat their gut in which we'll talk about, you know, protecting against disease, but, essentially it... nothing man - made can replicate it.

The main indications for breastfeeding are to provide an ideal food for the infant and protect against disease.

''... breastfeeding is an unequalled way of providing ideal food for the healthy growth and development of infants;... it forms a unique biological and emotional basis for the health of both mother and child;... the anti-infective properties of breast milk help to protect infants against disease; and... there is an important relationship between breastfeeding and child spacing».

Additionally, working in the garden has fantastic benefits for supporting their microbiome and gut health, allowing them to build up a strong gut that will help protect against disease and illness.

Essential oils are commonly known for their aromatic qualities, but they can also protect against disease and illness.

The Division of Pediatric Infectious Disease at Floating Hospital for Children is home to preeminent researchers who are working to find improved ways to protect against and treat infectious diseases.

Breastfeeding is the ultimate nutrition because it supplies all the necessary nutrients for proper development, protects your baby against illness and disease, it fights against allergies and obesity, it's easily digested, and breast milk caters to your baby's specific needs through their saliva!

Not only does breast milk have the right nutritional balance for your baby, but it also contains growth factors, antibodies, and other mechanisms that protect your baby against infections and other diseases throughout his lifetime.

Learn how the hepatitis B vaccine protects your child against liver disease and liver cancer, and the immunization schedule for...

Based on the most current evidence base for practice, it includes four new chapters: * Normal Infant Behavior * Change Management * Developing and Managing a Hospital Lactation Service * Nutrition for the Breastfeeding Child New to this edition are figures of breast anatomy and infant suckling and sections on mentoring future lactation consultants, protecting against chronic disease for the lactating mother, and breastfeeding late preterm infants.

The scientific rationale for ORT, and for continued feeding during diarrhoea, has been established beyond doubt: The challenge now is to place that knowledge in the hands of parents so that they themselves can protect their children against the dehydration and malnutrition caused by childhood's most common disease.

«Our study results are the first to argue that we may be able to treat inflammatory bowel disease and protect against transplant rejection not only by blocking TNF alpha as is done currently, but also by stimulating ATG16L1 to prevent early death of cells lining the gut,» says study senior investigator Ken Cadwell, PhD, an associate professor at NYU School of Medicine and NYU Langone Health's Skirball Institute for Biomolecular Medicine.

With this strength in mind, he sat down at his typewriter and began tapping out an argument for full - fledged animal studies to examine phytic acid's potential for protecting against heart disease and cancer.

Using a modified version of the CRISPR genome - editing system, MIT researchers have developed a new way to screen for genes that protect against specific diseases.

Vaccines against one subtype won't protect you against the others, says Harold Margolis, head of the dengue branch of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Dr. David Cavanagh, of the University of Edinburgh's School of Biological Sciences, who led the study, said: «There is a desperate need for an effective vaccine, which can be made easily in large quantities, to protect against this devastating disease.

While the possible protective effect of smoking against PSC seems rather unique to this particular liver disease, coffee consumption has been shown to protect against multiple other liver conditions including liver cirrhosis and liver cancer — and now for the first time also against PSC.

A team led by Ron Dagan, a pediatric infectious disease specialist at Soroka University Medical Center in Beer - Sheva, Israel, wanted to know if a new pneumococcal vaccine based on tetanus toxoid would change infants» immune responses to the standard regimen of vaccines, including those for diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis (DTP), and Haemophilus influenzae type B, which protects against meningitis.

Despite years of trying, scientists still haven't created an HIV vaccine that can protect people against the virus, says Alan Aderem, a biologist at the Center for Infectious Disease Research in Seattle.

Scientists are searching for — and finding — answers to how to protect cereal crops against the rust and powdery mildew diseases.

The experts attending the Bronx Zoo - hosted Vaccines for Conservation: Exploring the Feasibility of Protecting Wild Tigers and Other Endangered Carnivores Against Distemper recommend the following «Top 5» actions aimed at protecting the world's wild carnivores of conservation concern from distemper and other infectiousProtecting Wild Tigers and Other Endangered Carnivores Against Distemper recommend the following «Top 5» actions aimed at protecting the world's wild carnivores of conservation concern from distemper and other infectiousprotecting the world's wild carnivores of conservation concern from distemper and other infectious diseases:

Studies have found evidence for various health benefits of drinking coffee in recent years, from helping to fend off diabetes, heart disease and stroke to protecting against depression and Alzheimer's disease — and even, ironically, liver cancer (SN: 10/3/15, p. 16).

For Longo, it all added up: The same growth genes that regulate aging and protect against age - related diseases in yeast, mice, and roundworms might have an identical effect in humans.

CETP inhibitors have been sought by the pharmaceutical industry as a method for increasing HDL levels and protecting patients against heart disease.

Next, Holstege hopes to hunt for clues to genes that protect against Alzheimer's disease by comparing van Andel - Schipper's genome to that of people who succumb abnormally early to the disease.

«In addition to how well a vaccine works to protect against disease, safety is another important aspect for vaccine development,» said Chopra.

«The optimal strategy for protecting people and animals against this deadly disease would be through vaccination, but there are no FDA - licensed plague vaccines available in the U.S.,» said Ashok Chopra, UTMB professor of microbiology and immunology.

But as researchers turn to diseases that are more difficult to protect against, such as malaria or HIV, they are setting their sights lower, aiming for vaccines that prevent severe disease but not infection.

The study is «important as a proof - of - principle,» adds human geneticist Daniel MacArthur of the Broad Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts, who himself is on the hunt for rare genes that protect against disease and wrote a commentary accompanying the new paper.

The study, published in Scientific Reports, demonstrated that animals injected with synthetic DNA engineered to encode a specific neutralizing antibody against the dengue virus were capable of producing the exact antibodies necessary to protect against disease, without the need for standard antigen - based vaccination.

«We've known for a long time that exercise protects against metabolic and cardiovascular disease,» says Robert Gerszten, director of Translational Research in the Cardiology Division at Massachusetts General Hospital, and co-author of the new study.

A mixture of the four protected mice against the 12 strains responsible for the majority of GBS disease in humans.

Scientists have previously hypothesized that zebras» stripes evolved for one, or a combination of, four main reasons: confusing predators, protecting against disease - carrying insects, controlling body temperature and social cohesion.

«Our ultimate hope would be to use these findings to create a lipoxin - based drug for obese people to help protect them against associated illnesses, such as kidney and liver disease,» she said.

A University of Southampton - led study has found that blocking a receptor in the brain responsible for regulating immune cells could protect against the memory and behaviour changes seen in the progression of Alzheimer's disease.

For example, centenarians not only have retarded biological ages, they're also more likely to carry specific gene variations (called single nucleotide polymorphisms, or SNPs) that protect against disease.

Their findings on telomeres, the stretches of DNA at the ends of chromosomes that protect our genetic code and make it possible for cells to divide, suggest a potential target for preventive measures against cancer, aging and other diseases.

There are four strains circulating in the world, and antibodies for each of the strains interact with each other in such a way that if a vaccine does not protect against all forms simultaneously, it could backfire and put a patient at risk of severe disease if exposed to the other types.

Building on these extreme examples that emphasize the potential roles played by healthy lysosomes in protecting neurons against the age - dependent accumulation of toxic cellular debris, we ultimately seek to understand how neurons sense and regulate the status of their lysosomes, how lysosomes are affected during age - related disease states and whether lysosomal function can be modulated for therapeutic purposes.

«These genetic differences between people are the biggest reason why it is difficult to make a vaccine that works for everyone — people respond differently, and not all the responses will protect against disease.

These vaccines aim to protect against future infections and look to create new therapies for diseases already affecting people.