Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Cholesterol-Good and Harmful Cholesterol


Good and Harmful Cholesterol

Not just for holidays, but every day, you should very carefully choose the food. Wondering why? Think of cholesterol.
Cholesterol is a waxy, fat-like substance that is found in all body tissues, more than it is in the nervous system and liver. Formed in various organs (mostly in the liver) in the body but we also make it with food. The human body is indispensable, but only in reasonable limits.
Good and harmful cholesterol
All cholesterol is not the same, a distinction is made between LDL and HDL cholesterol. LDL accumulates in the walls of blood vessels and therefore could be narrowed. Also called ˝ harmful cholesterol” because it can lead to arteriosclerosis, heart attack, stroke. Quite different is the HDL cholesterol, which has a protective function and it is called “good cholesterol ˝. On the blood is transmitted with the lipoproteins back to the liver, where the bile is excreted from the organism. It also prevents the loading of cholesterol on the walls of blood vessels.
High cholesterol
According to the experts, about 75 percent of cholesterol occurs in the body, 25 percent of it entering the food supply. When too much cholesterol is in the blood, begins accumulated on the walls of blood vessels. The reasons for the increased content of cholesterol in the blood are different, in addition to excessive intake of cholesterol in the body with food, its level in the blood increase the disease (diabetes, obesity, and thyroid disease) and certain medicines. Researches, conducted in the past, have shown that reduction of blood cholesterol significantly reduces the risk of these diseases.
How to reduce cholesterol in the blood
Eat a balanced diet as much as possible, avoiding the frequently consume foods of animal
origin, including meat, cheese, milk, eggs, cream and the like.
Enjoy the more fruits and vegetables, nuts, seeds, in the preparation of meals, however, mandatory
Use herbs. Highly effective in the fight against cholesterol is also cool
garlic and onions.
Avoid pastries, preserves and fast food.
Drink green tea, which increases the content of beneficial cholesterol.
Stop smoking and excessive consumption of alcoholic beverages.
Check for regular physical activity (at least half an hour a day).


High cholesterol

Thursday, April 9, 2009

Common wormwood


Common wormwood

Common wormwood against intestinal cramps
Applied root and flower
Common wormwood has a number of healing effects: helps in the treatment of nerve disorders and menstrual problems.
In medicine and in the kitchen is very used, we accumulate wormwood at the time of flowering and then dried. In autumn accumulate also the root. It should not be washed, only dry it and then hunks.
From common wormwood prepare tea. It helps to delay menstruation or at menstrual problems, as well as in diarrhea, vomiting and intestinal cramps.
Dust from the roots in force as a means to treat nerve disorders (epilepsy, hysteria). Half of a teaspoon pour with a cup of cold water and drink several times a day.


Common wormwood

Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Five Tips for Flat Stomach


Five Tips for Flat Stomach

Five tips for the level of the stomach
Spring is the time when we considers the belly and on the stocks that have accumulated on it over the winter. If you want to make this summer more than the level of physical activity in addition to think about the diet.
No to carbonated drinks and chewing gum's
If you’d like to have a more flat stomach, it will help you a small changes, such as drinking water and natural juice instead of sweet carbonated drinks. These are largely one of the main perpetrators of feeling fullness, in addition to having a lot of sugar and calories. Instead mineral water, select normal water and add a little lemon. You’ll avoid fullness, if you do not chewed chewing gum's. Why? In addition to the chewing swallow a lot of air, chewing gum in the digestive function is misleading - because the digestive tract receives signals, the same as when you eat, start to produce digestive juices, which may lead to fullness.
The white flour
Since the fiber is the key to healthy digestion, avoid the intake of white flour and foods made from them. They contain very little or no fiber, slow down the digestive system and are often the reason for the closure and fullness. Replace the white bread with healthy seed bread, white rice with brown, try also integrated pasta.
Fiber
Eat the white beans, lentils and other legumes, berries of all kinds, dried apricots and puree. All these foods contain high fiber, improve digestion and give a feeling of satiety. On a day, try to eat about 30 grams of fiber. If you are not accustomed to these, by the food add them gradually.
Several small meals
Notwithstanding this, if you watch for a healthy diet or not, you will achieve the greatest success with the proper spread smaller meals throughout the day. Eat at least five times a day - three meals and two lunches if you're hungry, you can afford lunch several times. Don’t skip meals, eat as well at the evening - just make sure that at this time does not eat sugar or carbohydrates.
Exercise
Fatty pads to the belly will not disappear from the same itself. Without running, cycling, swimming or stepping is not going to work, exercises for the abdominal muscles will come to term only when they no longer fat pads. Be persistent!


Five Tips for Flat Stomach

Monday, April 6, 2009

Dangerous E's in Food

Dangerous E's in Food


Dangerous E's in Food

Dangerous E's in Food




Watch what you eating
Dangerous E's in food
Some supplements can come in the interaction with natural ingredients, and some may reduce the yield of nutrients, but some are shown carcinogenic. All registered food supplements, which are allowed, marked by E. Just because E’s represent a mixture of additives necessary and unnecessary, natural, and even the synthesis of GM, is for the many people very difficult to know, what is really in the product.
It should be noted that all the E's are not dangerous. Among the additions marked with this label, find coloring beetroot, vitamin C, an extract of carrots and the like. It is true that it is currently registered in the thousands of E's. Most of them are unnecessary and are merely cosmetic device.
Before a year, the study showed a link between certain pigment and increased child excessive activity. The latter was also one of the reasons for the reassessment review of dietary supplements. The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) in many countries of the European Union carried out extensive checks of authorized additives in food. EFSA also assess whether the additives in food in the safe in the light of scientific advances. For consumer information on what food you buy contains, however, must all additives in the diet, indicated by the title (the pigment, a preservative ...) and with the letter E (or the full name). EFSA assessment of any additive, however, before it enters the market.
Consequences
Consumption of dietary supplements can affect the body in several ways. The most problematic and damaging is the long-term consumption of small quantities of additives, which are capable of eliciting chronic effects, there is a risk inorganic materials in the appendices, some accessories, such as, for example, preservatives may cause allergic reactions. In order to avoid the deleterious effect of additives is therefore important good information.
Dangerous E's in food:
102, 104, 122, 123, 124, 127, 131, 132, 133, 142, 150, 151, from 210 to 228, 310, 311, 312, 320, 321, 407, from 412 to 414, from 620 to 625, 951, 952, 954, for children to 420th


Dangerous E's in Food

Eating Disorders-Call For Help!!

Eating Disorders-Call For Help



Eating Disorders-Call For Help!!

Eating Disorders are a call for help!
Enjoyment of food is considered one of the pleasures in life, is a result of messages on food and weight, which we receive, for many of torment. Eating disorders are a call for assistance and as a result of emotional distress.
Anorexia
Often beginning with a normal weight loss, which over time is out of control, until the food is not fully become a way of stress management. Some people with anorexia not eat almost anything and live on small bite food, but others overeating and then in various ways cleaning - food secreted from the body.
Bulimia
Person with Bulimia first eats food, and then compelled to vomiting and thus controlled his weight. Some persons with bulimia more days do not eat anything, then in a very short time get themselves a huge amount of food, which again in full vomiting.
Compulsive overeating
This disorder is also known as syndrome of unmanageable overeating, and indicates the status of the frequent overeating with large quantities of food, but no subsequent draining the gut, which is typical for bulimia.
The main feature of o people with ortorexia is to choose to follow a theory of healthy food, which excludes a whole range of food unfit for consumption.


Eating Disorders-Call For Help!!


Eating Disorders-Call For Help!!

Variety of Foods: The Good and the Bad

Variety of Foods: The Good and the Bad
You will thrive best if you can learn to eat an array of fresh, natural foods to get the wide range of nutrients that are necessary for vibrant health.

Different foods provide different nutrients, so the greater variety of nature’s bounty in which you partake, the better health you will enjoy.

Eat an abundance of fruits and vegetables and try new ones every chance you get.

Look for brightly or deeply colored varieties as they are high in anti-aging antioxidants.

Variety is also important when choosing animal protein sources. Red meat poultry, nonfat dairy, whey protein, seafood, and fish all have very different nutritional profiles.

Try not to eat the same type of meat or fish day in and day out.

A mixture of protein sources will supply you with an array of healthful nutrients and still help you to avoid the over-consumption of potentially toxic substance that may be present in specific meats or fish.

For instance, tuna is fine once or twice a week, but if you ate it every day, you might end up accumulating toxic amounts of mercury.

Lean red meat is great in moderation, but when eaten in excess you might absorb too much iron, saturated fat, and heterocyclic amines (carcinogens).

Lean chicken breasts are low in fat but don’t have the beneficial omega-3 fats found in fish and seafood, or the high zinc levels of red meats.

Variety, however, have a dark side. The dramatic rise in America body weight over the past twenty-five years is paralleled by a line documenting the number of new man-made foods introduced into the diet over the same time period.

They are often advertised as low fat, low carb, or vitamin-fortified, but nearly all of these synthetic, caloric-dense delicious new foods are designed to entice us into overeating.

A whole host of designer “fat free” highly processed foods were gobbled up by the American public as it packed on pounds of fat tissue faster than grain-fed cattle in feed lots.
Variety of Foods: The Good and the Bad

Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Food that kills stress


Food that kills stress

Food that kills stress
Surely you know from your own experience periods of fatigue, exhaustion or you have ever had the feeling, that you harder think and your memory is locked. Usually this happens to us when we are in stress; the culprit may be the wrong diet.
Against Stress with food
In a period of increased stress, our body draws on reserves of certain vitamins and minerals. Even for people who are eating properly, at the end of hard and stress levels of some vitamins and minerals in the blood and tissues is reduced by up to 33 percent. Long-term deficits that weaken the immune system and opens the door to many diseases, from colds and respiratory diseases to asthma and heart disease, all the way to cancer.
Which substances is needed in periods of stress
Experts recommend that in periods of stress we consumed more magnesium, B vitamins, iron and antioxidants such as vitamins C, E and A. It should not be overtaken of decaffeinated and refined sugar, causing it fast rise and decline of sugar in the blood, which makes our body more vulnerable to shocks. Therefore eat food with fiber (fruits, vegetables, integral cereals and rice) and legumes. In the period of stress during the day you make several small meals, which is better than the usual three.
Valuable mineral in the fight against fatigue
With a sufficient amount of magnesium is easier to cope with stress and everyday stress.
Energy metabolism in the body needs magnesium, so it necessarily needs top-class athletes. This element makes sure that they can not be exhausted quickly. With the increased concentration of magnesium in the blood is our body and brain wakes from apathy.
Coffee drink in small quantities
Caffeine affects the central nervous system, in small quantities we lift mood, increase our focus and concentration in the bulk leads to anguish, agitation, headache, cardiac arrhythmia, raising blood pressure, panic attacks and insomnia. Sufficient for two to three cups of coffee per day, this takes away fatigue and increase mental liveliness. Therefore, the coffee not only helps many of alertness, but also an anti-fatigue, which occurs after heavy meal. Off course is better not to get used to the excessive quantities of coffee.


Food that kills stress