Parkinson disease

Url: http://healthblog.dallasnews.com/2013/05/peppers-are-a-new-hot-topic-in-the-prevention-of-parkinsons-disease.html/

Article Name: "Peppers are a new “hot” topic in the prevention of Parkinson’s disease"

Author: Jane Sadler

Date: May 14 2013

Summary:

         This article is about Parkinson's disease and how eating foods like Peppers could lower the risks. Peppers compared to other vegetables has lots of nicotine. It is a common fact that smoking can surprisingly lower the risks of getting Parkinson's. "One pepper a day can keep Parkinson's away! Compared to other vegetable's like tomatoes, pepper's have a high amount of nicotine in them and eating peppers is a better alternative to smoking. Pepper are from the Solanaceae plant family which contains a lot of nicotine.

Relevance:

         This article is related to the nervous system which we had just recently studies. Since Parkinson's disease affects the nervous system which is part of the body it disrupts homeostasis of the human body which we also studied about.