Metallothionein is a protein which binds heavy metals and provides us with protection against such dangerous toxins as cadmium, cesium, arsenic, mercury, lead and carbon tetrachloride which get into an body from food.

Extracts from green tea gained fame of slimming agents when it turned out that a complex of active substance contained in it intensifies thermogenesis – the increase in the production of thermal energy at the cost of the oxidation of fat reserves.

Far-flung studies in the results of the supplementation of organic chromium preparations, widely known as GTF, were conducted at the University of Minnesota under the supervision of the chemistry professor Gary Evans, PhD. The research program included...

The scientists of the University of Nebraska Medical Center conducted an interesting study in hamsters. The animals were divided into two groups. Both groups were fed with a standard normocaloric diet with the proper content of proteins, fats...

The paleobotanic findings suggest that tea was used by a lateral lineage of our species – homo erectus – some half a million years ago.