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Eating Fruits 1 or 2 day Is Not Enough

admin | May 13, 2013 | No comments

How many fruit consumption needs for the body? Two and three pretty, but for more leverage as antioxidants then eat ten pieces per day. Should meet all the needs of color and consumption in various ways

Healthy living is always synonymous with heavy effort. In fact, small actions performed continuously and becomes a habit, it will give you great results. Small actions in question are accustom consumption of fruits and fruit juices every day. Each of these pieces have different properties, therefore varying consumption will be better and healthier.

Being fruitarians or fruit enthusiasts should start from small portions. As has become a habit, then life can become more healthy and awake.

But, for a healthy, fruit consumption alone is not enough. You must be accompanied by exercise. Frequency of three to five times a week. There is an element of intensity to achieve the needs of the body, and if the result is not less than the maximum.

Therefore, it is recommended that in addition to eating fruits, you should also take the time to exercise at least 20-30 minutes. If you want to be healthier, allocate 20 to 60 minutes, according to the capacity measured body.

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Tomato juice Overcome Fatigue After Exercising

admin | May 3, 2013 | No comments

When your muscles ache after a gruelling session at the gym, what do you do? Are compressing with cold water or drinking energy drinks?

Apparently, there is a simpler way. Studies of the General Chemical State Laboratory in Greece revealed, tomato juice turned out better in helping restore the exhausted muscles after exercise. Because tomatoes provide important compounds, namely lycopene, which is believed to assist in the recovery of muscle and blood sugar levels back to normal after being stretched.

During the two-month trial of the 15 athletes performed various health institutions in Greece to observe their vital signs before, after, and during exercise. Nine of the 15 athletes drink tomato juice after exercise, and six others to consume energy drinks.

Apparently, those who chose tomato juice feel their muscles recover faster. Their blood sugar levels also returned to normal more quickly after strenuous exercise. Levels of harmful enzymes and proteins, which cause damage to the muscles and brain, also returned to normal more quickly.

Lycopene is a compound known as a provider for the red colour in tomatoes and some other fruits such as papaya, watermelon, guava and red. Lycopene is a powerful antioxidant containing high employment, which is known to fight cancer, heart disease, and several other diseases. That’s why a lot of people apply for extending the life of the Mediterranean diet.

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How Soy Slimming Your Body

admin | April 1, 2013 | No comments

In addition it contains many health benefits, fibber and protein content in soy could actually help you lose weight.

When the diet, you still have to pay attention to nutritional intake. An unbalanced diet will lead to an increased risk of diabetes. You should look at your diet, keep them high in fibber, low in calories, low in bad fats and glycemic index (level of food according to their effect on blood sugar) is low.

According to a study published in The Journal of Nutrition, the content in the soy protein isolate can reduce levels of triglycerides (fats in the blood) and increasing concentrations of the hormone adiponectin (a hormone that acts affect a number of metabolic processes in the body, including the metabolism of fatty acids).

High levels of the hormone adiponectin can accelerate the breakdown of fatty acids that reduce levels of fat in the body. During the hydrolysis of proteins into peptides, the rate of gastric emptying is slowed so that the stomach feel full longer.

Soy foods also include a high fibber content. Fibber, as you know, helps facilitate digestion and make the stomach full longer.

In one day WHO recommended fibber intake is 150-300 grams. But according to data from the Central Food Security in 2009, the people of Indonesia only eat as much as 30 grams of fibber per day. That is, it is still far below the recommended intake.

Instead, mix or combine soybean meal diet with fibrous foods such as vegetables and fruits. Mixing soy and vegetable or fruit will add to the value of fibber in your diet.
By eating lots of fiber, you are not hungry so easily put off the desire to eat other foods or overeating. As a result, the weight is slowly going downhill.

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Beware 8 Foods With High Natrium

admin | March 22, 2013 | No comments

Excessive salt intake has been associated with various health risks, such as high blood pressure, heart disease, and stroke. But often unaware of high salt levels in some foods.

Recommended salt intake for adults is 2,400 mg per day, and for people who are at a higher risk to be smaller this figure is 1,500 mg per day. Imagine if every food you eat contains about 300 mg of salt, could you exceed the recommended limits?

Well, so do not be fooled by high salinity foods, you should be aware of some of the following foods.

1. Bread

The bread does not taste salty, but it has levels of sodium (sodium) is high. Whole wheat bread is a type of bread is best because it contains the lowest levels of salt.

2. Frozen Food

Processed meats such as sausages and nuggets have a high salt content. The amount of sodium in foods can vary greatly. Some of them can reach 500 mg per piece.

3. Dressing on salad

Salad containing vegetables seem healthy, but when presented with the dressing, the levels of sodium in food is to be increased. One tablespoon of dressing can contain 214 mg of sodium.

4.Sereal

Certain cereals such as corn flakes contains about 300 mg of sodium per small bowl. And when eating cereal, people often not only take a small bowl.

5. Canned beans

A small bowl of canned beans contains about 1008 mg of sodium which is almost sufficient half of the recommended daily limit of sodium.

6. Spaghetti sauce

The average instant spaghetti sauce can contain 1,000 mg of sodium. So be wise when cooking pasta, you should cultivate their own spaghetti sauce because it will significantly reduce the sodium content.

7. Low calorie fizzy drinks

This drink is lower in calories than regular soft drinks, but the sodium content is higher. There are 28 mg of sodium in 350 ml low-calorie sodas, regular sodas while only 15 mg.

8. Canned soup

The canned soup can contain 1106 mg of sodium. If you had to choose canned soups, then choose labelled “low sodium”.

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Having Excess Salt Can Trigger Autoimmune Diseases

admin | March 11, 2013 | No comments

Limiting salt intake of the daily diet not only keeps us from high blood pressure but also autoimmune diseases.

Autoimmune diseases are caused by health problems the immune system attacks the body’s own cells. Some types of autoimmune diseases such as lupus, multiple sclerosis, thyroid disorders, and so on.

In a study of mice in the laboratory known high-salt diets increase the levels of immune cells associated with autoimmune diseases. Even the mice that were genetically engineered to develop multiple sclerosis (MS) disease getting worse if they eat too much salt.

The results showed that salt has a role in autoimmune disease which has not previously been known triggers, such as type 1 diabetes or MS.

High salt intake alone is known to increase the risk of heart disease and hypertension. But experts assess factors triggering the autoimmune disease is not just salt.

“Vitamin D also plays a small though. Addition, smoking also increases the risk of autoimmune diseases,” said David HAFLER, imunobiologi experts from Yale University.

HAFLER interested in researching the link between salt and autoimmune disease when he was doing research on intestinal microbes, a census of the gut microbes and cell function in 100 healthy people.

The research team found that when people are eating at fast food restaurants more than once a week, they showed increased levels of inflammatory cells that damage. This means that the immune system of the same responses if there is a virus or bacteria, but healthy cells.

Tues the active autoimmune T helper cells known is 17 or Th17 cells. The cell was triggered inflammation that is so important in the fight against pathogens. But these cells are also associated with MS disease, psoriasis, rheumatoid arthritis, and so on.

In the medical world today, the treatment of autoimmune diseases, such as psoriasis, is to manipulate the function of T cells

Although the research team did not know exactly how the occurrence of autoimmune diseases and their relation to the activity of T cells before, but those who suffer from autoimmune diseases are advised to limit their intake of salt.

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