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Vitamin B

Saturday, February 27th, 2010

Vitamin B vitamins is one of the most famous, but we know very little about its benefits and its importance to the health and welfare.

Vitamin B is actually a group of eight distinct vitamins, B1 – thiamine B2 – riboflavin, B3 – niacin, B5 – pantothenic acid, B6 – pyridoxine, B7 – Biotin, B9 – folic acid, B12 – cyanocobalamin, known collectively as Vitamin B complex Vitamin B is water soluble, which explains all versions of effervescent supplements of vitamin B.

The B vitamins work in sync to support the health of many body systems. The B complex improves immune function, promotes the proper functioning of the nervous system, maintains the metabolic rate, increases mitosis and meiosis, and helps in the prevention of depression and cardiovascular diseases. (more…)

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Vitamin A is helpful against acne

Thursday, February 25th, 2010

Vitamin A is especially valuable for the body and is good for your skin but who could get to thinking it might be a useful weapon for those who fight against acne? His action is a broad spectrum detoxifies and helps prevent the action of bacteria on the skin is to regulate the formation of sebum. The health of the cells is in first place in the proper physiological functioning of the skin and vitamin A can do a lot.

It is through food consumption, and then we can intervene before they turn to drugs and foreign intervention, which can support the action but not always, unfortunately, resolve it. Introducing the diet foods rich in vitamin A but a small step forward may be decisive in solving the problem. (more…)

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Food supplements for sport: work or bad?

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010

Proper eating habits usually make all the nutrients needed to properly practice any physical activity, and to cover all the nutritional needs and energy of the athlete or sportsman. In 90% of cases, if the person follows an appropriate diet for the type and frequency of activities carried out, not be using any supplements, especially not to risk needlessly jeopardizing the health products with little or harmful indicated.

Supplements or nutritional supplements for sports are many, some are only composed of minerals, vitamins or other only by amino acids (proteins): energy drinks, herbal extracts, etc… (more…)

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Food safety: Here are the products most at risk

Sunday, February 21st, 2010

In our country when it comes to labeling on food products you have to do with a real puzzle, to say this is the CIA, Italian Confederation of Agriculture, because unfortunately our domestic market is flooded with food products that are passed off as Italian but instead come from abroad, are prepared with imported raw materials, and often contain elements harmful to health. Not by chance, the federal government dell’agropirateria emphasizes how business is such that the competent authority shall seize food at a pace that has tripled.
But what are the most foreign food products at risk, often among others, are sold at bargain prices? Well, the CIA stressed that care must be taken to products that enter our country illegally ranging from pasta sauces to pasta and passing cheese, canned food, rice, garlic, fish, fresh and processed, but also mushrooms, and fresh, and those prepared and preserved.

And yet, canned tomatoes, olive oil and eggs. The turnover of food products is estimated illegal immigrants in the Italian Farmers Confederation than two billion euros per year, with attendant risks to the health of consumers, and substantial damage to agricultural producers against Italians. Very often, the case of food products that have not expiration date, with countries like China from which a bit ‘of everything: tomatoes and garlic through the vegetables, apples and vegetables.

It must therefore be careful not to be attracted by food products sold at prices far lower than current retail and in any case, you should prefer products with the label, and even those sold through direct sales, i.e. at markets that directly manage the farmers. This way you can be sure to buy local products.

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Saturated or unsaturated fat?

Friday, February 19th, 2010

Hydrogenated fats are the bugbear of those who are attentive to the quality of food. Hydrogenation is a process that tends to make more “solid” and less perishable vegetable fats, but introduced a significant proportion of Tran’s fatty acids in the form. Few know that in most baked goods and savory snacks we buy, under the heading “vegetable oil” is hiding lots of saturated fats, harmful to our health. This type of fat, in fact, raises the level of “bad” cholesterol (LDL) in blood and contributes, along with a too sedentary lifestyle and other factors, which increase the risk of cardiovascular disease. Recent research in the field of nutrition and health are all agree in fatty acids, which can be formed during the hydrogenation process, a significant negative impact on our health, especially in the cardiovascular system. (more…)

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Butter or margarine?

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010

The butter should be banished from our tables, to save thousands of people from heart disease. Butter is the major source of saturated fat in our diet, and replace it with margarine or other derivatives could take shelter from cardio circulatory problems and save thousands of lives. It is the opinion of Kolvekar Shyam, a famous surgeon at University College London Hospital in Britain. However, according to nutritionist, Dr. Antonio Pacella, the best fat dressing is still by far the extra virgin olive oil, although you can insert into the small amounts frequently and very occasionally other types of fat, as well as reduce the consumption processed foods that contain these types of fats. The extra virgin olive oil is a natural product into the use of which may have some benefits on the organism.
According to studies credited the extra virgin olive oil has the following therapeutic effects: (more…)

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Vitamin D: from sun lamps and a remedy saves bones

Monday, February 15th, 2010

But not only! That the vitamin D had extraordinary healing properties was known, but the scientific debate is more than ever on, because vitamin D and essential for the formation of bone and teeth, is proving to be miraculous for many other aspects of our being.
We can find in some foods and is activated during exposure to sunlight and ultra violet rays of sun lamps.
Vitamin D has always been known for her role in prevention of rickets has been in more recent even a panacea against heart disease, osteoporosis and colon cancer and, among other positive effects of contributing to a significant Improvement of the problems linked to menopause. Researchers from Creighton University in the United States have shown that a group of women in Nebraska for only 4 years taking 1100 IU of vitamin D decreased the risk of any cancer by 70%. (more…)

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Childhood asthma: fish and fruit

Saturday, February 13th, 2010

It is well known the great qualities and nutritional values inside the fruit and fish along with vegetables, are necessary nutrients that must become common in the menu of our baby. But now, it has also known the results of a study by the School of Public Health Harvard University, that the consumption of fruit and fish helps combat the symptoms of childhood asthma. (more…)

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Multivitamin Helped

Friday, February 12th, 2010

If you want to enjoy optimal health well a multivitamin can help

It is never too late to change your habits, and if you are not in the habit of taking a multivitamin supplement regularly, it’s time you did. The alteration of behavior in this one respect will greatly improve your chances of living a long and healthy life. Good nutrition is needed to maintain optimal health, and a multivitamin supplement will ensure that you receive what your body needs help to prevent and fight disease and improve its welfare state.

What good nutrition means? (more…)

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Natural Multivitamin

Thursday, February 11th, 2010

natural multivitamin

all foods have some kind of vitamin or mineral and always, in varying amounts. Therefore, in most cases, need to complement various foods to meet our nutrient requirements.

Not only is a natural multivitamin that has existed since prehistoric times, but, this food is very rich in minerals and proteins, even being a food of plant origin. (more…)

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