Showing posts with label fruits. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fruits. Show all posts

9/07/2009

The benefits of fruits


The great religious and philosophical traditions have always alluded to the importance of eating fruit. This is the most perfect food, which consumes less energy during digestion and that, in turn, better for the body.
Easy to digest, the fruit provides sugars and helps cleanse the body.

When you wake up and throughout the day, while I can stand comfortably, eat nothing but fresh fruit or freshly squeezed juices. The more you resist no other food in the fruit body, the body will have more hours to clean. By eliminating coffee and other elements that often poison your body from the early hours of the day, you will notice a new flow of vitality and energy, which currently can not even suspect.

6/02/2009

Fruit against osteoporosis

A major challenge undertaken by the medicine of the past few years is to find a solution for osteoporosis, ie, the abnormal loss of calcium from bones, a predominantly female problem that is exacerbated after menopause.

Fortunately, encouraging news comes one that involves a mineral with an unsuspected until recently, activity against osteoporosis: boron. This mineral is one of the components necessary for the body to produce female hormones are important in preserving bone mass.

Specialists say that a small dose of boron and is a guarantee of good results, because the body needs only 4 milligrams per day. But most important is that the simplest and most effective way of incorporating this mineral is through food: apples, pears and grapes are foods rich in boron, therefore, good friends of the bones.

3/16/2009

The kiwi allergic according to scientific study

The kiwi is a significant food allergen that can cause severe reactions, especially in young children who have other allergies. The warning comes from a British study. The kiwi has been recognized as a food allergen for over 20 years, but this is the first large-scale study that specifically investigated the clinical characteristics of kiwi allergy in children and adults.

Nearly 300 people responded to a questionnaire by mail of researchers from the University of Southampton. Forty-five people who reported symptoms that indicated they could be allergic to kiwi were invited to a clinical trial. Tests revealed that nearly half of those 45 people were allergic to kiwi.

Among the reactions are rashes, vomiting, abdominal pain, burning in the mouth and swelling of lips, tongue and face. The reactions were more severe difficulty breathing, with wheezing and collapse.

2/03/2009

The kiwi, very nutritious fruit

Until recently it was a true unknown, but recently has become one of the most consumed fruit. Its appearance should be especially welcomed by parents of children who refuse to citrus. Because, although its size is small (weighing about 88 g), provides more vitamin C than oranges (which has an approximate weight of 180 g).

The kiwi contains 74.5 mg while orange provides between 67 and 70 mg vitamin C, which is half kiwi a day is enough to cover the daily needs in children. It is also rich in vitamins A, Bi, B2 and B3, and potassium.

11/10/2008

Fruit of love

No flowers were always typical even entertain the gift to the woman who loves. In the Middle Ages, the fruits of the forest were the true vehicle of male love.

The woman who received a basket with cherries or strawberries was very flattered and enjoyed its aroma as if they were roses or jasmine. Therefore, this recipe is ideal to be prepared for those men who want to fall in love with a woman. Remind.

10/07/2008

Plants Against Cancer

Recent studies show that there is some relationship between low levels of beta-carotene in the blood and some cancers such as lung, esophagus, stomach and uterus. Following this research, the American Institute of Cancer and the Ministry of Agriculture of United States recommends an increase in consumption of vegetables and fruit.

These foods contain, besides beta-carotene and other vitamins, minerals, trace elements and fiber, micronutrients that may also help prevent such dreaded disease. It is very appropriate, therefore, that children become accustomed to eating these foods.

9/10/2008

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.

7/04/2008

Hypertension

It increases from 40 following an increase of peripheral vascular resistance and some unhealthy habits: salt in the diet, consumption of snuff and alcohol ...

Your best bet because you are always on time if you want to achieve a better lifestyle is starting to consume more fruits and vegetables.

6/05/2008

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.

3/23/2008

The Sex Determines the Food

A studio carried out in 14.000 Americans determined that they prefer the flesh and the shellfish, while they lean for the fruits, vegetables and yogurts

WASHINGTON (AFP).- One of the biggest surveys that have been made lately about human health, determined in your first conclusions that men and women differ in your dietary habits.

The first prefer the flesh, while they opt for the fruits and the vegetables, according to an alimentary realized studio between May of 2006 and April of 2007 among 14.000 American adults.

The differences in the alimentary preferences of the two sexes have been on in evidence in the first survey carried out by the nutritional organization Foodnet, a network of surveillance of illnesses related with the foods.

"We have picked up such a variety of data that we consider interesting to see if they really existed differences between men and women as regards power supply", the physician explained to Beletshachew Shiferawa, epidemiologist and main author of this work, entered in the International Conference on Infectious Emergent, celebrated Illnesses this month in Atlanta.

Alimentary habits. "This is, as we believe, the realized biggest studio on the differences of alimentary habits between men and women", added. To the entrants they were asked what they habitually ate, included the usage of foods of risk, as flesh little cooked.

These investigators have discovered that the men prefer, with more frequency, to consume flesh, mainly of veal, pig and duck, as well as certain shellfish, as oysters and shrimps.

On the other hand, the women more frequently choose the vegetables, mainly carrots and tomatoes. They also have a marked inclination for the fruits, mainly strawberries, apples, blueberries and raspberries

The women also prefer the dry fruits, as the almonds and the nuts. On the contrary that the men, are also attracted by you the eggs and the yogurts.

Eat of risk. On the other hand, the investigators observed which your behavior was before six alimentary products with risk of producing some infection. This way, they had to choose among not very cooked hamburger, raw or not very cooked eggs, raw oysters, milk without pasteurizing, cheese also made of milk without pasteurizing and alfalfa buds.

The men with balance of probabilities would eat not very cooked hamburger and raw eggs, while the women that the women prefer the alfalfa buds.

According to the experts that carried out this studio, the results can be important for the inspectors of Sanity since when understanding the alimentary differences between men and women, he/she can help to create healthy new strategies.

The fruits and vegetables are the favorite of the women when establishing an alimentary diet

The roasted one is one of the favorite foods of the men, while the fruits and vegetables, of the women

1/25/2008

A Charm to Avoid the Envy

You are always people that surround you that for lawsuits in particular or in any reason, they envy you. Sometimes until the barest and petty thing it can serve like pretext to be the pillar for which the other ones envy you. And care, we are not speaking that you are pursued without reason, but that you can take the defensive in front of those forces. For ésto, we will help you to prevent you with this bare but effective charm.

To carry out it it comes in the following way:

Elije a fruit or vegetable that you displease yourself, either for your form, color or flavor. Not it imports the reason, the objective you are that you don't like. The only condition, is that this debit side to possess carozo. Then open it for the half and put in the cavity that he/she left the carozo a paper with the person's name that he/she think that you want to damage yourself.

You wrap the fruit or the vegetable that you have cut and elect previously in aluminum paper. Then save it in the freezer of your refrigerator. Leave it resting in this place for a term of three days, to the end of those which, you will retract the wrapping of the cooler. Have the diligence of putting on gloves for not receiving any negative vibration.

After ésto, put the fruit or vegetable in a bag of residual and you go to some place in ruins that you will choose before carrying out this ritual.

Once you are in the chosen place, you take out the vegetable or fruit of the bag (always wrapped in aluminum) and throw it to it there more far that you can. You are important that you go with the on gloves and carry out the whole procedure with them covering the hands.

We recommend you to practice this ritual one day Tuesday in the morning, to take advantage of the force of Mars, the God of the war and aliased natural in any combat, which are very necessary in this case to be about a defense.

You are also fundamental that for any reason you throw the fruit or vegetable to the jar of the garbage. You should be aborted to the bleakness. Otherwise, the contrahechizo won't have to be able to.

Practice it and you will see the results!