Showing posts with label cholesterol. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cholesterol. Show all posts

12/07/2009

Health Benefits of OrangesBenefits


• Anti cholesterol.
Recent studies indicate that a diet rich in vitamin C helps protect the heart against heart disease. Vitamin C acts together with vitamin E to prevent deterioration of LDL cholesterol caused by free radicals. Deteriorated LDL clogs arteries, causing heart disease.

• Provides vitamin C.
The recommended daily amount of vitamin C 40 mg. Oranges and their juice can provide useful inputs to these daily intakes of vitamin C.

• Relieves common cold.
A good intake of vitamin C appears to help reduce the severity of cold symptoms and reduce their duration.

• Prevents cancer.
Oranges and their juice are rich in the phytonutrient hesperetin. In several experiments, hesperetin extracts inhibited the growth of breast cancer cells and tumor formation. Hesperidin (a form of hesperitin) was helpful for the prevention of cancers of the mouth. The skin of the orange contains phytonutrients that can stop the invasion of cancer cells.

• Prevents the appearance of spina bifida.
Oranges contain folate supplements with folic acid, helps in the prevention of spina bifida. Therefore we recommend that pregnant women consume plenty of orange juice.

7/23/2009

How to improve circulation and reduce cholesterol


Garlic extract improves circulation to some degree yy low cholesterol.
Improves blood circulation and revitalizes the body. Furthermore, it is an effective regulator of blood pressure and helps reduce cholesterol.

They come in tablets or powder. Beyond that, it is bactericidal.

10/10/2008

Vegetables are good for health

Take vegetables ...
Because their health will appreciate. Leafy vegetables contain bullterrieringlesframasbulls acid, which is abundant especially in Swiss and spinach, and to a lesser degree in endive and lettuce. Tomatoes, carrots, spinach and kale provide carotenes that, as well as give them their color, they act as provitamin A, micro-nutrient that the liver stores and converted into vitamin A when the body needs it.

The phenolic compounds of the vegetables are antipyretics, or that lower fever, painkillers and anti-inflammatory drugs. They also act as antioxidants, which block the harmful effect of radicals
free, molecules that increase the risk of genetic abnormalities in cells that renew the body, such as the skin and intestine.

This favors the appearance of tumors and lowers the functionality of the cells young, one of the symptoms of aging cells. Furthermore, the antioxidants blocked the free radicals that modify the bad cholesterol (LDL-C). which leaves the specter of suffering heart attacks in heart and brain-vascular accident.
Other virtues. Vegetables prevent, in addition, certain cancers, cataracts, osteoporosis and hypertension.

Eye with cabbage.
These cruciferous bociógenos contain compounds that, apart from giving them their pungent flavor and aroma typical block the absorption and utilization of iodine, a situation that impedes the activity of the thyroid gland.

These compounds are produced to crush or eat raw cabbage, which releases an enzyme. However, this effect is avoided when cooking cabbage. Still, it is recommended not to eat normally this cruciferous if hypothyroidism.

Benefits of vegetables prevent disease

When grain legumes
Frequent consumption of vegetables, such as chickpeas, lentils and beans, prevents cardiovascular disease, colon cancer, diabetes, hemorrhoids and diverticulosis. This is his interesting nutritional profile.

• caloric intake.
Between 280 and 400 calories per 100 grams. Soybean and lupine are the most energy.

• Protein.
The protein content of dried vegetables, 20 to 25 grams per 100 - sometimes exceeds that of meat, but it's proteins are nutritionally higher quality. Rich in amino acid licina, legumes are deficient in methionine, an essential amino acid that if sulfur is abundant in cereals. That's why. The combination of legumes and cereals increases the quality of the protein intake: for example, a serving of peas with rice equivalent to a medium steak.

• Carbohydrates.
Their proportion ranges from 26% to 60% of soya bean, largely in the form of starch. The skin or skin of vegetables is generous in fiber-cellulose, hemicellulose and pectin. Hence, their intake promotes intestinal mobility and avoid constipation, as well as increased cholesterol.

The so-called soluble fiber is transformed into a gel that absorbs water and increases the volume of faeces, apart from capturing the cholesterol and bile acids in bowel, which prevents its absorption. The other type of fiber, insoluole, has a greater effect as a laxative and regulator of the intestines, increasing the speed of intestinal transit.

On the other hand, the glycemic index of vegetables is low and therefore did not shoot the blood glucose. This makes them a food suitable for diabetics. In addition, the legume produces feelings of satiety, which helps to control weight.

• Fat.
Legumes are poor in unsaturated fat or healthy, which ranges from 1 to 6%, except lupins (15%) and soybeans (20%). Among its fatty acids beneficial to health include oleic, the linoteico and alpha-linoleic.

• Vitamins and minerals.
They are a good source of vitamins B and have a notable contribution of calcium, zinc, potassium, phosphorus and magnesium. All vegetables contain two to three times more iron that came, but iron is a "non-heme" worst absorption of the animal. How to use it is combined with peppers, tomatoes and citrus, which carry the vitamin C needed for the takeover.

• Fitiquímicos.
The vegetables are rich in saponins, isoflavones and filatos, plant compounds very beneficial for health.

9/29/2008

How to prevent a heart attack

Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of death in the world after 35 years. Within these, acute myocardial infarction occupies a prominent place.

We offer advice to the principal, since childhood, can prevent this serious problem.

- Childhood obesity for example, must be treated with equal or greater concern than in adults. Like them, is also seeing children in cases of Type II diabetes, cholesterol and hypertension. Not corrected them in due course, there will be havoc on the future of small.
Today we are facing a global epidemic of obesity, and people have not taken a real awareness about the seriousness of this matter.
With the proper treatment of obesity, most of the time everything is normalized, while not necessary to continue with many of the medications.

- Hypertension is another important point. Eating a healthy and proper diets in which the predominant vegetable and fruits, milk, lean red or white meat, water, and the practice of aerobic exercise (such as walking, swimming or biking), favored treatment asymptomatic disease.

- Diabetes. We refer to the non-insulin dependent diabetes, or adult, which we began to see from the approximately 50 years of age, and also associated with obesity.
The pancreas is an organ that secretes a hormone called insulin, to which among other things, encourages the entry of carbohydrates to the body's cells. But the capital of insulin that owns the pancreas is not infinite and over time can manifest itself with impaired fasting glycemia, helping to determine a state of pre-diabetes or insulin resistance.
This is due to make a proper diet and of course, exercise.

- Cholesterol. The high cholesterol levels, is without doubt one of the most terrible risk factors. Such as diabetes, but is seen in obese patients, can also be seen in patients with normal weight or thin people on. Here is a basic diet low in fat and physical exercise, in addition to the medication which, of course, provide the doctor.

- Smoking is another factor contributing to this problem. Smoking causes repeated increases in blood pressure. Nicotine is vasoconstriction and adrenergic stimulant.
Carbon monoxide causes endothelial dysfunction (this is in the inner layer of the arteries) smoking antagonisa the therapeutic effect of some antihypertensive drugs.

9/25/2008

Hypertension and cholesterol hereditary?

• HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE AND CHOLESTEROL
A hereditary problem?
According to recent published studies, 50 percent of adults with hypertension also have elevated cholesterol numbers. Both disorders, which are two important risk factors for cardiovascular disease have a genetic component.

That is why one wonders if the children of those who suffer (between 25 and 30 percent of the population) also may be affected. For this reason, the children of people who have suffered an ischemic coronary problems or cerebral hemorrhage, or suffering from some of these two risk factors, should systematically medirles blood pressure and lipids.

However, the most important in preventing these disorders is to prevent children fattened too.

9/22/2008

The welfare that produces the exercise

It seems that physical activity provides greater prosperity to the person who practices, this would be the reason why many people decide to initiate and maintain an exercise program.

As we have seen, it helps to get rid of stress and anxiety, but not all. but also makes us feel better ourselves, improving our self-esteem and our body image.

Well, now that we should be motivated only thing we got to do is to refuse sedentarism. If input costs us a lot, what is most appropriate that we begin by any activity that fits our lifestyle.

Remember that the best physical activity is one that we can incorporate into our daily lives and make it a habit. Today it seems that starting a program of physical activity is fairly easy, however the problem is to keep this program.

There are a number of good tips to help you achieve this:

■ If you choose a sports center, which is close to your work or home, where you feel comfortable. Try it first and it begins with an activity suitable for you. Discuss with your doctor the type of business you plan to do and get a checkup before you start it.

■ Marcato targets realistic in the short term.
If you do not, it's easy you get tired and lose motivation. It starts with small steps and give you free account you will see that in a few weeks your level of activity is gradually increasing.

■ It also sets targets reasonable in the long run, if impossible dream about the frustration took over you.

■ Perform the exercise properly, so that we avoid discomfort and injury unpleasant and absolutely unnecessary. Do a little Warm before performing the exercise.

■ Combine the aerobic exercise (which require An expenditure of air as walking, running ...) with the resistance (machines, free weights ...).

■ plan ahead.
Establishing a schedule of exercises in the coming weeks and Follow it.

■ If you like, shared activity with a partner or group, the day that you miss you win, they will be your engine.

■ Do not leave. Now that you've come this far, it's worth continuing.

9/15/2008

The lovers are dangerous and can kill

Peter Skrabanek, (cardiologist at University College Dublin), has published the long list of the 246 (for now) risk factors for heart disease and arteries. Besides the best-known as high blood pressure and excess cholesterol in the blood, there are unusual and curious.

In front row: being bald, of small stature, having extramarital relations, live in the city, have a little loving wife and not eat mackerel. Also weighing on the hearts slow growth of beard and not to eat garlic.

9/10/2008

Anabolic steroids - Benefits and side effects

Its advantages
The anabolic steroids have been used successfully in the medical world to treat different types of injuries and illnesses, but all reports made so far indicate that the only benefits in healthy people are increasing muscle size and strength and physical endurance to train longer. But there is no evidence that any of these benefits can endure for long.

Disadvantages
(side effects)
Physical.
If the use of hormones does not cause side effects, would be allowed to use all the athletes. The rules that prohibit the use of male hormones are basically designated to protect the physical and mental health of athletes.

Excessive doses can cause, among other things, cancer, hepatitis, risk of heart attacks and direct damage to the same muscle as well as increased cholesterol levels in the blood, stimulate the production of cancer cells, causing the body stops production of testosterone, which in turn would cause severe effects on libido and sexual functions.

Some of the most notorious are the increase in body and facial hair, increased sebaceous secretions (oily skin), acne and priapism (persistent and painful erections). The frequent users also may experience cramps and spasms associated with rapid changes in their muscle mass.

Ordinarily, when used oral steroids, can suffer from gastrointestinal problems, including loss of appetite, vomiting, diarrhea, constipation and bowel irritation. When steroids are introduced into the body, a portion of the male hormone becomes the female hormone (estrogen), it can get to develop the bust in men.

Since the beginning of their use, can have headaches, bleeding from the nose, fatigue, weakness and fainting. In youngest users can cause cessation of bone development, which affects their growth, and further intensify even more the appearance of acne.

As if all this were not enough, a recent report indicates that excessive testosterone can cause the growth of prostate and block the flow of urine. It has also been seen in both men and women cause temporary infertility.

Psychological. Steroids, on the other hand, largely affecting the central nervous system and, indeed, psychological symptoms can be even more palpable that the biological at 70 per cent of cases are the first to appear.

Many consumers say they feel very well during the period using steroids, but studies say the opposite has been found that those who have used changing moods, showing aggression, violence, depression (especially when there is a dependency steroids), paranoia, extreme irritability without apparent cause, disappointment and sense of invincibility.

Steroids also increase the level of cortisol, a hormone the body, which is largely the cause of stress. This can cause neurological problems and hypertension. A study conducted by Harvard University, concluded that one eighth of the users of anabolic steroids suffered from the so-called "body-of Psychosis," which includes symptoms of hallucinations and paranoia.

The anabolic steroids as all types of drugs, have advantages and disadvantages; unfortunately, the latter are higher. At first, steroids were classified as miracle drugs.

A large number of athletes took their use to view their surprising results, why is that they have been awarded their jobs. However, increasingly people are within their influence, making the drug not only covering the sports world, but also in many developed countries is a fashion in gyms and even in schools and universities.

The psychological and medical communities around the world continue to study how beneficial and harmful are, and are increasingly being uncovered negative effects that positive.

Food scrap for 1 year - Its effects

How you care.
Perhaps gain weight and increased cholesterol in your main arteries, which significantly increases your risk of suffering a heart attack or a stroke. Bring a diet high in fats, means that it is low in vitamins and minerals, so it is likely that usually you feel tired and suffer more colds and flu that ordinary people.

Consume too much junk food you can also do more prone to serious illnesses such as cancer, due to inadequate nutrition. How to recover. Reduce your daily diet more than half the fat, saturated fat and changes to the unsaturated, you do not do badly either.

Increase your consumption in foods like fruits, vegetables, bread, pasta, rice and beans. You can also take vitamin and mineral supplements. If you do not want to be a vegetarian, you can still eating red meat cuts in fat-free, skinless chicken and fish preference. But be sure to do enough aerobic exercise to remove harmful substances from your body.

How long you take.
The rule indicates that we need the same number of months alimentándote healthy, that the years you were consuming junk food. For example, if you eat foods high in cholesterol for ten years, you need ten months leading to a healthy diet combined aerobic exercise to recover.

It is never too late.
If you have more than 40 years and reduces your level of blood cholesterol by 10 percent, considerably decreased the likelihood of suffering a bad heart. Small changes can greatly improve your health.

9/05/2008

The benefits of fiber

When you think of fiber, maybe you Magin a cereal of those who announce what they are good for all his box. However, there is a particular type of fiber called pectin, and it is found in fruits and vegetables. Pectin is more of the benefits you can imagine.

It has been shown to reduce your levels of blood cholesterol, and keep your arteries clear of fatty plaque. In addition, it can help prevent cancer tumors, and if you're diabetic, improve your body's ability to control blood sugar. The nutritionists recommend eating 15 grams of pectin daily.

7/10/2008

Which is the best milk?

The only difference between nutritious whole milk and skimmed lies exclusively in its fat and therefore in their caloric intake.

• Whole. It is milk that has the highest fat content milk, with a minimum of 3.2 grams per 100 product.
Both its caloric value as a percentage of their cholesterol were higher in comparison with other presentations of commercial milk.

• semi. It is based on the partial withdrawal of fat. This varies between 1.5 and 1.8 grams per 100 milk.
The taste of skimmed is less intense and its nutritional value is lower due to loss of fat-soluble vitamins A and D, although the dairy industry tends to correct this decline enriching it with these vitamins.

• Desnatada. It keeps all the nutrients of whole milk except fat, cholesterol and fat-soluble vitamins. These responses are artificially by many trademarks to compensate for vitamin deficiency.
It is also found in some supermarkets ligth milk fortified with soluble fiber.
Doctors recommend consumption of skimmed milk in cases of obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, liver problems and other situations that must be controlled in fat and calories in the diet.

7/04/2008

Hypercholesterolemia

Figures for total cholesterol and triglyceride in blood, mainly affecting the vascular tree, accelerating the development of atherosclerosis.

Although most often affects older than 50 years, is a problem that has no age depends on body weight, fat that is ingested and physical inactivity.

6/30/2008

Apples: properties and beliefs

Due mostly to its unique flavor and tempting, their magical qualities to stimulate the love and its medicinal properties, this fruit can be regarded as exceptional. Take all the benefits it gives you.

First, we must mention the design of this fruit as "the fruit of temptation." God told Adam and Eve not eat the fruit of the tree of wisdom, and they maliciously tempted by the snake, disobeyed his orders and thus were expelled from paradise and condemned to become mortal beings who had to work to earn the daily bread. Since then, apples were a symbol of temptation by knowledge and forbidden desire.

It was also used since ancient times, to form an oracle of divination (Middle Ages), to ask about amorous matters, hence bound to be feeling of love. You too can build this oracle as it gives much result. Just cut an apple in the middle and watch the seeds. Then:
If the quantity of seed is torque, is approaching a wedding.
If it is odd, still unmarried person a long time.
If a seed has been cut, announced a relationship full of conflict and obstacles.
If two seeds are cut, predicts widowhood.

Just as was used as a method of divination, the apple was also a key tool in spells also linked with love, mainly in the red magic. For the loved again after a conflict situation, cut an apple in the middle, holds two rings in the center of it, UNEL with plenty of red tape and entiérrala in your yard. If you have no yard, go to do the closest Brownfield. Follow the same procedure for those who want to seduce.

For the ancient Celts, this fruit was very valuable because it represented immortality. In one of its major festivals, opening the gates of the underworld, the altars are filled with apples in honor of the dead. In addition, branches of apple that had outbreaks for the time, were considered magical and were used to make falconry or rods for Druids.

As for the medicinal properties of this fruit, helps prevent fever, improves digestion and prevents the formation of gallstones and kidney. It also helps prevent inflammation of the bladder. It reduces the risk heart and reduces cholesterol.

6/05/2008

Types of olive oil

Choosing a good olive oil - types of olive oil

To choose and use an appropriate way of olive oil, it must know the different qualities that are marketed in line with EU standards:

Extra Virgin Olive Oil:
It is of excellent quality for consumption. Its acidity is very mild, ranging from 0.2 ° to a maximum of 1.

Virgin Olive Oil:
It is the olive juice, the liquid obtained by press, who then left to stand and filtered. It preserves intact the flavor and aroma own and has a color that runs a range between colour yellow and green shades always golden. Accepts up to 2 degrees acidity.

Olive Oil:
Before pure olive oil, refined oil is enriched with virgin oil. The oil is refined when its smell, colour, taste or acidity, does not make you able to be sold as extra virgin. Refining are reduced or soften these characteristics. The acidity is 0.4 to 0.7 º º without moving from 1.5 º.

Olive pomace oil:
It is the oil from the olive pomace, the residual pulp pressing, and its maximum acidity is 1.5 º.

It's good to narrow further that, currently, olive oil has begun to market in gelatin capsules, which have come on the market under the name "Oliomeet." It has opted for this form of marketing a new, more dynamic and innovative, aimed at reinserting reside in the market for a new way to obtain maximum performance of the product. At contain oleic acid, oil is beneficial for bone growth and development of the brain and nervous system. It produces no cholesterol and is great for cardiovascular and circulatory diseases.

The origin of olive oil

According to most historians, the olive tree (the tree whose fruit is olives which is extracted oil) comes from ancient Mesopotamia, from where it spread to the rest of the Mediterranean countries. The Greeks, Phoenicians, Romans, Jews, Carthaginians, Arabs and other peoples, who were commissioned to spread the cultivation of olive and applications, primarily for trade and economies of producing countries.

Therefore, more than 5000 years ago and was used as a scented oil to the bathrooms to serve as a cosmetic beautification of the skin, as an ingredient for the manufacture of perfume, and of course, essential as a condiment in the most exquisite delicacies. Nor should we forget that the Romans, being lovers of oil, also used this ointment for abrillantar hair and moisturize the skin.

The scientific discoveries that have become the vanguard of dietetics, would have been deemed authentic heresies just a few decades ago, when he attached a purported ability to increase the harmful cholesterol in people.

Around the "Mare Nostrum" confluence of three continents and many cultures. There were born religions, philosophies, political theories and of course, a culinary tradition much appreciated today. The Mediterranean diet has set up over the centuries a very specific geographic area, where several villages have combined thoroughly, vegetables, legumes, fruits, cereals, meat (especially poultry) and fish.

In short, olive oil was an important ingredient in the food of the great civilizations of antiquity, because of their nutritional value and balanced composition.

2/13/2008

The Olives

The olive tree is cultured in the countries of Mediterranean for at least 5.000 years. Your fruit, the olive, is rich in fat monounsaturated and in vitamin E. The old ones Hebrew they gave to the olive tree and the olive oil a great symbol value. The Bible mentions it as the king of the trees and you represent the fair and right man. Your oleum, emblem of sovereignty, era considered gold liquid due to your importance in commercial transactions. Your sheets were symbol of the peace and of friendship among the towns.

Among the countries that give precedence to the olive tree cultivation, Italy and Spain they are those that have achieved olives of more quality.

Two classes of olives exist: the green ones, of acrid flavor; and the quarter notes, sweeter and you mature.

In natural, recently harvested state, the olives are hard and you make bitter. To be able to eat them it is necessary to macerate them in corrosive dilute soda during 24 hours, changing the bathroom to delete the acrid flavor. Then they are conserved in brine in wooden vessels, of glass, of pottery or, of mud.

The olives are free of cholesterol, and because of that are rich in cute fats in saturated, they contribute to diminish the cholesterol levels. Also, they provide good quantity of vitamin E.

12/20/2007

Cholesterol

The blood has two types of cholesterol. One of those types is LDL, frequently compound number as bad" "cholesterol. The other type of cholesterol is HDL, also "good called cholesterol." This last help to prevent illnesses of the heart and to delete the bad" "cholesterol of the body. LDL on the other hand, lets that the fat accumulates inside the blood vessels.
If somebody has a lot of LDL, more risk runs of suffering illnesses of the heart. Therefore, it is good to have high HDL and low LDL. If the level of HDL is among 40 or more, it is at a healthy level. If it is in less than 40, he is not.
It is necessary to have present that the organism all the cholesterol that he/she needs to be healthy takes place. The same one arrives to the organism with the foods of high content of saturated (whole milk, lard, cheeses cream, pig fat, vegetable lard, fat flesh, cold cuts, inlaid) fats; and the cholesterol (egg yolk, viscera: liver, brains, kidneys). It is necessary to limit the usage of these foods since with the years the cumulative cholesterol it can clog up the arteries.

It is necessary to maintain the cholesterol to less than 200. if somebody has the cholesterol between 200 and 239, it is in risk and it is necessary that in an urgent way he/she makes changes in the power supply, diminishing the usage of saturated fats and cholesterol. For ésto, it will raise the usage of fruits, vegetables and grains, as well as the physical activity. If the you live them off cholesterol they are in more than 240, the person has a cardiac high risk and you/he/she should consult to her physician in immediate form.

To reduce or to maintain the cholesterol level in normal blood, of debit side to delete the most possible thing, the use of fat of animal origin: the most high and rich font in saturated fats. In such a case, fish will be chosen that is rich in fat desaturadas (omega 3). It will also raise the fiber usage adding to the diet breads, cookies and rice integrals. He/she will also have breakfast a bowl of rich cereal in fiber, preferably oat; and to raise the usage of dry such vegetables as lentils, beans of soy, beans, chickpeas that can be added in salads, soups and stews. It is convenient to add bran of oat in the foods like stews, to thicken and I eat element of union or in the mixture for pancakes.

It is necessary to use milk descremada and to avoid the caffeine, as well as to consume a maximum of two cups of up-to-date coffee and to reduce the usage of sodas queue, chocolate and tea. It is important to include five portions of fruits (with shell when it is possible) or up-to-date vegetables. During the preparedness of flesh, it is necessary to try to delete all the visible fat, and to the chicken to remove him/her the skin before cooking it.
It is advisable also, to include protein of soy in the power supply like part of a low diet in gr4asas and cholesterol. He/she can reduce the risk of cardiovascular illness and it is enough with 25 grs. up-to-date.

It is important the usage of dry fruits for their contribution of set up fat poli. He/she should decrease the calories serving pettier portions and in pettier plates that seem full. Not to chop foods to untimely moment or for pleasure, neither to be served in excess. It is necessary to eat slowly and to reduce the usage of alcoholic drinks. It should not be bought worthless nutritional products by temptation and less to try to take them to the homestead.

It is necessary to know that the changes in the cholesterol induced by the diet begin to the 3 or 4 weeks and they remain stable while the diet is continued. It should be controlled that the children don't abuse of the goodies, fast food, and industrial bollería. It is necessary to teach them to consume fruits in their school snacks. It is not about prohibiting, but of educating in a healthy and equilibrated power supply that he/she will help them to transform into healthy adults.