Showing posts with label vitamin C. Show all posts
Showing posts with label vitamin C. Show all posts

12/08/2009

Benefits of CitrusCitrus


Citrus fruits are known for their high content of vitamin C, essential for good health of our body. Science has discovered that also contain a wide variety of phytonutrients and various kinds of dietary fiber. Citrus fruits grow optimally in subtropical climates of the Mediterranean type and most common varieties are oranges, lemons, tangerines and limes.

Recent studies have revealed that people consume daily have a risk up to sixty percent less stomach cancer than those who do not. It is believed that vitamin C in fruit blocks the formation of carcinogens in the stomach. Also, the fiber of the white rind of citrus is insoluble, which helps to increase stool volume and velocity to circulate, reducing the risk of colon cancer.

Also, vitamin C helps the body absorb dietary iron. Is essential for vegetarians eat foods with vitamin C, and thus reducing the risk of iron deficiency, a cause of anemia.

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.

9/15/2009

Improve your skin with Vitamin C


According to a study in dermatology, loss of elasticity and density of the dermis is one of the effects produced by chronic sun exposure. Topical application of vitamin C stimulates dermal collagen synthesis improving photodamaged skin.

The specialist conducted an investigation with 10 women aged 50 to 60 years, treated daily for six months with cream of ascorbic acid (vitamin C) 5%, which were compared to an equal number of volunteers, under the same conditions, using the cream without the vitamin.

Skin biopsies taken at end of treatment were studied by light and electron microscopy. Although they all could see the damage from sun exposure, skin treated with vitamin C had a greater number of elastic fibers and fibroblasts metabolically structured assets, compared with skin treated with placebo alone.

7/23/2009

Benefits of Vitamin C in skin


Vitamin C is known scientifically as ascorbic acid. Its action is essential in the synthesis of collagen, responsible for maintaining the elasticity of the skin. His attributes do not stop there. Softening properties and helps to accelerate the renewal process of the surface layers of the skin (like a natural peeling process). Also performs an important action at the immune system.

Helps maintain the levels of calcium and phosphorus in the blood. Prevents the formation of free radicals, it replaces old tissue, helps heal wounds and erase the stains on the skin.

9/05/2008

Benefits of vitamin C

To maximize their profit and efficiently prevent the flu, making dosdosis separate vitamin C every day. Vitamin remains in your body 12 hours after you've done ia digestion, so taking two doses, one in the morning and another at night, keep your defenses throughout the day.

If, for example, get used to ingest a dose of 1 000 milligrams per day, you can take breakfast with 500 milligrams and 500 milligrams other with dinner. Moreover, Experts claim that taking it well and will have greater protection against cancer and heart disease, which takes only once a day.

2/22/2008

Hepatitis

You are named hepatitis to the diffuse inflammation of the hepatic gland, what produce injuries destrictivas of the hepatocitos, associated to an exudative process.

When the inflammation returns, all the hepatic destroyed cells are reabsorbed and they are substituted by new cells regeneradoras, at the time that the exudation and the inflammatory cells disappear little by little.
This box of injuries doesn't have anything of specific, that is to say, the hepatic gland reacts in the same way before aggressive numerous agents, among which should stand out: the toxics (chemical or biologic) that give place to the toxic (industrial, fortuitous, you commit suicide or therapy) hepatitis; the infectious agents not viral that give place to an infectious fortuitous (pneumonia, syphilis, paludism, amoebiasis, recrudescent fever, etc.) hepatitis; and, finally, the viruses (that they produce infectious mononucleosis, fever, yellow, epidemic hepatitis and for homologous serum).

You be which are the lawsuit that cause the hepatitis, the clinical manifestations they are usually always the same ones, although the graveness of the path of the liver damage varies according to the aggressive agent.
The epidemic hepatitis or for homologous serum it is the one that are given in the clinical practice with more frequency.
Most of they have a communio origin, being the responsible one a filterable virus; the viral hepatitis is classified in two big groups: epidemic hepatitis, caused by the one that one comes naming virus TO or YH; and hepatitis for homologous serum, taken place by the compound number B or SH.
In both hepatitis, the clinical box and the histological injuries are identical, although the virus YH is always transmitted for via oral, and the period of incubation hard from two to four weeks, while the virus SH is transmitted by inoculation of blood or products of the same one with syringe, and your period of incubation oscillates between 10 and 20 weeks.

The viral hepatitis is almost always manifested by a box of dummy flu (seudogripal), characterized by a great decline and lassitude, appetite ullage, general breach associated to pains articulares and even headache more or less intense. The fever oscillates, and few times you pass of 39º. A slight pain can be given in the hepatic field, being very strange, on the other hand, the one that show up alive pain of cholic hepatic.
This box flu-like pseudo dura around 8 to 10 days, to the end of which the urination is darkened until acquiring the shade of the brandy.
Next an icterus appears that begin in the eyes to go covering the whole body little by little. During a, two or three weeks, the color of the icterus is intensified to go remitting slowly during an or two weeks later.

Whichever it is the etiology of a hepatitis, the treatment is always the same one. The main base is the absolute rest in bed.
This debit side to last, as minimum, until the lab analyses demonstrate that the bilirubin of the blood has returned to your normality.
Many cases that have evolved secondarily toward the chronic condition or malice, are due to an interrupt of the corporal rest. The second base of a good treatment is mainly the abundant, compound power supply of hydro-carbonados, vegetables and fruits, associating you a protean minimum of around 2 g newspapers for kilogram of body weight.
You should be excluded of the alimentary régime all type of excitant, sauces, mustard and alcoholic drinks. As background processing, the sick person should take a vitamin supplement, mainly of the complex B, associated to vitamin C.