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Healthy Diet with Healthy Food

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010

Healthy Diet
Maintain a healthy diet, with a general trend of healthy cooking, is essential to maintaining good health. Below is a list of healthy foods with a brief description of their properties and how they influence their physical well-being.

Olives: combat constipation and gallstones. The olives are capable of dissolving the gravel and small stones in the gallbladder. The mineral salts battling intestinal fermentation.

Olive oil: Lowers cholesterol and risk of heart disease, lowers bile acids and prevent ulcers. However, it should be borne in mind that pure olive oil in Spain is being adulterated with hazelnut oil and groundnut, as recent complaint to the European Union by the National Association of Edible Oil Packers.

Garlic: It’s ideal for hypertension. Reduce breast cancer and prostate cancer and slows the progression of tumors in people who already have the disease. Facilitates blood supply to the brain, which protects from Alzheimer’s and even Parkinson’s and relieves symptoms of depression and fatigue.

Artichoke: Its use is beneficial for the treatment of liver diseases.

Apricot: Fight obesity and nausea. Apricots agree to people who need treatment at the same time tonic and purifier. The apricot is alkalizing and energy, facilitates cellular regeneration and strengthens the body’s resistance. It is also rich in vitamins A and C.

Sweet Almond: Shape meat healthy and neutralize the acidity in the blood.

Celery: Clean your body of toxins.

Rice: Rich in fiber and vitamins of group B. It stimulates the immune system and helps digestion.

Broccoli: Rich in calcium, vitamin C and fiber. Anticancer properties.

Brown: Food enable intestine and relieves the kidneys.

Khaki: Nutritious and antidiarrheal.

Onion: Expectorant, ideal for the treatment of bronchitis. Anticarcinogenic.

Cherry antacids, combat indigestion, anemia, gout and rheumatism. Besides strengthening the blood, give good color and enhances renal function.

Cherimoya: Very nutritious.

Plum: Stimulates the liver and intestine. It has laxative properties and purification.

Dátil: Increases organic heat and nervous energy. Very nutritious.

Peach: Laxative, diuretic and alkaline.

Raspberry: It soothes the nervous excitement and purifies the blood.

Strawberry: Cooling, diuretic, laxative and solvent of uric acid. The strawberries in addition to its exquisite aroma and taste are antigout properties and worming. Wild species dissolve joint concretions of uric acid. Whoever cultivates strawberries and wish them a taste wild, pine needles that spread around the plant.

Wheat germ: The high selenium content slows the signs of aging.

Sour cherries: blood alkaline.

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Healthy Food

Monday, March 8th, 2010

Healthy Food

  • Granada: Antidiarrheal.
  • Figs and plums: tonics, laxatives and cleansing the breast and lung.
  • Egg: It contains vitamins A, D and B, iron and protein. In Spain, 10,000 million eggs consumed each year. Be careful with the eggs of farm. Provided antibiotics and tranquilizers sometimes farmed chickens are transmitted to their eggs. Moreover, since the late 80’s, farmers used to feed meat and bone meal, which idees carotene are added to brown buds and arsenic to prevent parasites.
  • Kefir: Aids circulation, nervous system, balances the intestinal flora.
  • Kiwi: It contains 8 times more vitamin C than lemons.
  • Milk: Rich in calcium. However, be careful with the milk industry. The rogue unscrupulous employers is limitless. Add water to milk is an easily detectable fraud.
  • Brewer’s yeast: Helps digestion, beautifies the skin and helps your heart stay fit. Strengthens the body’s defenses. Prevents anemia.
  • Lemon: desinflamantes and purifiers. (They go a little stress). It is detoxifying and astringent-inflammatory.
  • Apple: Antacids, active liver and uric acid dissolves. It is recommended in diseases of the stomach, bladder and kidneys. Reduces cholesterol.
  • Peach: This is the most important fruit for those with cancer.
  • Melon: Nutritious and laxative. It is used in special cases such as emollient, laxative and diuretic. It is recommended for nephritis and liver diseases.
  • Hip: The fruit of wild roses. Are stomach, diuretic and blood purifying.
  • Orange: Alkalinizer blood, activate the intestine and dissolve uric acid. It is tonic, sedative and cleansing. It is recommended for pregnant women.
  • Loquat: antacids, laxatives and anticatarrhal. Antidiarrheal.
  • Walnut: It has the property of eliminating all the toxins your body and make it refractory to the action of many poisons.
  • Raisins: Activate the organic combustion, are good for the brain, memory and kidney.
  • Bananas: Food and laxative.
  • Pear: Diuretic, digestive and blood cleansing.
  • Polen: Recommended for depression, anemia, hypertension and mental fatigue.
  • Grapefruit is also diuretic stomach.
  • Watermelon: Refreshing and diuretics. It is recommended in those infected with gonorrhea, gonorrhea and syphilis.
  • Soybeans: Helps prevent breast cancer, colon and prostate. Lowers blood cholesterol levels.
  • Tomato: Laxative and antiarthritic.
  • Grape: Avoid constipation and liver decongestant. Prevents cancer.
  • Wine: Reduces the risk of heart attacks. A glass of wine with dinner protects against some food poisoning.
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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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    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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    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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    Healthy Recipe: Pumpkin and cream cheese

    Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010

    The soups are the best allies of the diet to lose weight because they are satiating and nutritious recipes, I recommend you handle the soups slimes your daily menus No if you want to lose weight.
    Today’s healthy recipe: pumpkin cream cheese, creamy and flavorful soup that provides nutrients and is ideal for: dinner and the end of the day. I hope the test at home!
    Ingredients for 4 people
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    Best Natural Smoothies

    Thursday, January 28th, 2010

    Best Natural Smoothies

    Nutrition experts insist ever more strongly in the need to consume fruits, vegetables and dairy products.

    The arguments of nutritionists are based on the calcium that gives us milk and vitamins that make fruits are essential for the proper functioning of our body.

    Despite the recommendations, many people consume these foods not because they are unattractive or inconsistent. Fortunately there is a simple solution: the preparation of shakes, with a mixture of both ingredients. In a few minutes with some minimal knowledge of cooking, we have a very nutritious preparation also can enjoy a wide variety of flavors, so many fruits on the market.
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    More fruits for better health

    Saturday, January 16th, 2010

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    Eat more fruits for better health

    The more fruit you eat, the more you will gain in health. Summer offers a lot of fruits rich that benefit the body with its properties. In the previous entry learned to make the batter that helps you lose weight with a balanced diet, it is time to add to their lives most refreshing fruit, ideal for heat, which will have a source of minerals and essential vitaminales the body needs. Moreover, in this era naturally by the body leans and cold light meals.
    Do not forget that it’s best to eat fresh fruits and avoid canned or cooked because they lose or saved properties preserved, since the enzymes and some vitamins are destroyed by heat, the best way is to exploit the properties of fresh fruits and raw.

    The most refreshing fruit and its properties

    • Pineapple

    It is a tropical fruit of very low caloric value and provides water and fiber to the body. Furthermore, contain vitamins B, C, potassium, calcium, phosphorus and magnesium. The Pineapple aids digestion because its components has bromelain, an enzyme that facilitates protein digestion, preventing stomach heaviness after meals. It is ideal to consume diets because it is a diuretic and helps eliminate toxins because of their high water content. Finally, acts as a laxative, stabilizing intestinal flora and has antiseptic power because it enhances the inflammatory conditions of the mouth or throat. The areas most influential body: kidney, bladder and prostate.

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    Turmeric

    Wednesday, January 13th, 2010

    Turmeric

    Turmeric is used both as a spice and as a colorant in food preparations. There is also a major constituent of curry (curry), a special mixture of spices used in Indian cooking. Yet few studies have evaluated the effects of consumption of turmeric. Moreover, most of them have used turmeric (or its active ingredients) in quantities exceeding what could be commonly used, then falling more than supplement the usual spice

    Active and properties

    Antioxidants

    Antioxidants are compounds that protect body cells from damage caused by free radicals. These are highly reactive molecules that are involved in the development of cardiovascular disease, certain cancers and other diseases related vieillissement1. In one study, turmeric is the fifth largest in its content of antioxidants among over 1 000 food analysés2 (calculated from 100g diet). As usual a portion of turmeric is closer to 2 g (5 ml), it still contributes less than other foods to our daily intake of antioxidants. Turmeric contains flavonoids and compounds phenoliques, but curcumin is considered the main antioxidant compound.

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    The truth about health foods!

    Tuesday, January 12th, 2010

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    The omega 3 are good for the heart, the soybeans are beneficial for women, we must enrich their diet with iodine and avoid the bad sugars … Many health claims circulating on the content of our plate. How to distinguish true-false?

    Obviously, what we eat has an impact on our health. But how do we know precisely what is “good”? To get a clearer picture on the health claims of some manufacturers claims, here are some details from the book of the French Agency for Food Safety “Nutrition and food safety risks.

    We need to increase consumption of omega 3?
    “True”

    Products enriched with Omega 3 have invaded the shelves of supermarkets. And they seem to suddenly become essential to our health. But what is it really? For scientists, the Omega 3 have undeniable virtues against cardiovascular disease. They help to lower blood pressure in hypertensive and triglycerides in people who are in excess. But they have no effect on bad cholesterol. Only flat, all these profits were essentially proven in people with a history of cardiovascular disorders. The benefits among healthy individuals are mainly extrapolations. However, AFSSA said that we consume too little omega 3. Then they should represent 0.8% of our total energy intake, investigations show that they reach 0.1 to 0.4%. Focus on fish oils from rapeseed or fortified foods actually seems inevitable.

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