Monounsaturated Fats Are Good For You And You Know It

Monounsaturated fats have a protect blood cholesterol levels. They doing it by lowering LDL known as “bad” cholesterol and increasing HDL levels known as “good” Monounsaturated fats tend to have a protective effect on blood cholesterol levels by lowering LDL (bad cholesterol) and increasing HDL levels (good cholesterol). Therefore, monounsaturated fats are good for your health.

Cholesterol is a chemical compound manufactured in the body that helps the body to make steroid hormones and bile acids. It is a soft, waxy substance used to form cell membranes and some hormones. Therefore, it is a normal part of all our body cells. Cholesterol is essential for health and key to production of certain hormones, including estrogen and testosterone, and in production of bile essential for digestion

Because monounsaturated fat is lowers the “bad” cholesterol levels, it may assist in reducing heart disease. Adding monounsaturated fats to your diet shouldn’t be difficult as they are found in natural foods like canola, olive, and peanut oils, as well as most nuts, and certain cold water fish species such salmon, halibut, mackerel, and rainbow trout. They are also the main component of tea seed oil and olive oil. Most monounsaturated fats are rich in Vitamin E. Fat helps the body absorb fat-soluble nutrients such as vitamins A, D, E, and K. If you live long enough on the planet Earth, you KNOW Vitamin E is an anti-oxidant vitamin and is called the youth vitamin.

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Monounsaturated fats are at the center of the popular Mediterranean diet in those countries heart disease, bowel and breast cancer are less likely than the other parts of the Western world. Those fats are more stable than polyunsaturated fats, so they can tolerate higher temperatures for cooking.

Fatty acids are long-chained molecules having a methyl group at one end and a carboxylic acid group at the other end. Fatty acid fluidity increases with increasing number of double bonds. Fats, along with protein and carbohydrates, are one of the major macronutrients in the diet. Fat is used by your body to make hormonelike substances that control blood pressure and other heart functions.

Janet Jackson Feedback Video

Janet Jackson is back with vengeance and sexy as ever. If you fan of Janet, you must take a look at the preview of her "Feedback" video. It’s been today at 7:30 EST you could watch Janet Jackson’s Feedback video on yahoo. Tomorrow there will be yahoo’s worldwide premiere. Wow!

Additionally, Janet launches her new website: JanetJackson.com tomorrow. The special about Janet’s website is that her funs can participate in the contest in creating their own video adaptation of Feedback that would go through Janet’s YouTube channel: “Destination Discipline”. You may enter the competion because if your video is in the ten most viewed videos, you are for a treat of a brand new iPod with Janet Jackson’s videos and music.

So, the single “Feedback” is here and the rest of the album “Discipline” is due in February.

Here is what Janet says about her new album “Discipline”:

“I love the dance. I love the mid tempo stuff. I love slow songs and the baby making songs. I still has the element to it. (…) You don’t know how many people come up to me and say – ‘This child was conceived listening to you’”.

Thanks, Janet!

Watch the "Feedback" on YouTube here.

Nicole Kidman Confirms She Is Pregnant

Oscar-winning actress Nicole Kidman will take a step back from movie-making this year after announcing that she is pregnant.

The Australian film star ended weeks of speculation, releasing a statement confirming she and husband Keith Urban are expecting their first child together.
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"Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban confirmed today that they are expecting a baby," Kidman's publicist Wendy Day said in a statement.

"The couple are thrilled."

Pregnancy rumours have been circulating for some time, with scores of paparazzi photos focused on her "baby bump".

Ms Day said she learned only on Tuesday morning that the 40-year-old actress was expecting.

"I personally didn't know, so I'm excited today, very excited," Ms Day told AAP.

"For years I've seen speculation, and for years it's never been right, so I didn't think it was right this time.

"And then she's just rung this morning."

It is understood the star couple enjoyed lunch together at Lucio's Italian restaurant in the inner Sydney suburb of Paddington just hours after making the news public.

The pair have been relaxing with friends and family in Sydney over Christmas, after Kidman finished work on Baz Luhrmann's epic film Australia on December 21.

Ms Day said Kidman had announced her pregnancy after withdrawing from her next planned film project, the Stephen Daldry-directed post-World War II drama, The Reader, which was due to begin shooting this month.

The New York Post reported Kidman, who has suffered a miscarriage and ectopic pregnancy in the past, quit the film because she was "so concerned about the welfare of her unborn child".

"I understand she's had to withdraw from the film and therefore she's had to give them the reason, and therefore she's now able to confirm that she's pregnant," Ms Day said.

"I don't know how far pregnant she is, or when the baby's due.

"She just simply rang me and said, 'Wendy, I always told you I would tell you first, and I'd confirm it and you could make the appropriate announcement.'

"So I guess that statement ends all the rumours and... I guess the poor girl will be hounded by paparazzi and all that."

A pack of media was camped outside Kidman's Darling Point residence in Sydney's eastern suburbs, as flowers were delivered to the expectant parents.

Kidman and country singer Urban met in Los Angeles at a G'Day LA event honouring Australians in January 2005, and married in Manly, on Sydney's northern beaches, 18 months later.

It was Kidman's second marriage. Her first, to fellow Hollywood actor Tom Cruise, broke down in 2001.

During their 10-year union, Kidman and Cruise adopted two children, daughter Isabella, now 14, and son Connor, 12.

The children live with Cruise and his new wife, actress Katie Holmes.

Kidman has said she had an ectopic pregnancy at the beginning of her marriage to Cruise and suffered a miscarriage at the time the couple split.

Nicole's mother, a clearly thrilled Janelle Kidman, hinted that the baby may arrive around Nicole's 41st birthday.

"I think it's in July," Mrs Kidman told the Seven Network, adding that she and husband Antony were excited about the news.

And in Queensland, Urban's father Bob also welcomed the news.

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Nose Bidet Helping Thousands Allergies Sufferers

Nose Bidet may be the answer for endless sufferers of sinuses and allergies. Nose bidet finds its way to the American medicine cabinets with this alternative medicine this winter. You may ask what is nose bidet is. As funny as it may sound, it is pot or nasal irrigation pot looking a bit like an Aladdin’s magic lamp and rumored to help with allergy symptoms. It is known also as Jala net pot. Nasal washing has been has been used for centuries but with the development of modern medicine has been nearly forgotten.

Newly nose bidet became popular again, mainly because of the appearance of Oprah’s favorite doctor, Mehmet Oz on her talk show. As Dr. Oz is becoming slowly becoming a household name with the segment: Ask Dr. Oz, Americans are excepting his endorsement of nose nasal irrigation with the help of the nose bidet on that show. Nose bidet suppose to irrigate or rather clear nasal passage way and helps treating inflammation of the sinuses and allergies.

It is good to know that nasal cleansing has been a part of folk medicine in many parts of the world and belongs to ancient Indian yogic tradition.

So, what to use with nose bidet? According to Dr. Oz, not just regular water as it can irritate your nostrils and certainly not cold water. The best in your nose bidet is warm water mixed with a quarter teaspoon of non-iodized salt.