Showing posts with label vitamins. Show all posts
Showing posts with label vitamins. Show all posts

5/10/2009

Different types of milk

Milk is an important source of protein, calcium and vitamin A. There are different types according to their treatment to make it fit for consumption:

The natural one that has not been treated. Marketing is prohibited. If taken, must be boiled twice, at least.

The certificate, which must be consumed in 24 hours, which is derived from farming and, although it has not been heat-treated, has gone through a rigorous control.

The sanitized has been subjected to a temperature that destroys pathogens and must be consumed in 36 hours.

The pasteurized, usually as concentrated milk, need not be boiled, but should be consumed within four days.

The sterile, having been treated at high temperature increases the time consumption of three to six months, and when you remove the water, becomes evaporated milk.

3/03/2009

Eliminate swelling and dark circles

And in winter the days are short, it is likely to sleep longer hours in summer. And if you spend too much time in bed, face down, accumulates excess fluid in your eyes, causing swelling and dark circles.
The fastest way to get rid of the bags is sleeping with his head on a pillow because it provides high drainage. Another option is to implement a simple five minutes for black tea bags in cold rain on the eyelids. Its chemical properties desinflamar tissues to help relieve the pressure because of the blood vessels.

Then Take five minutes to apply your dark circles and small dots on a cream that has a specific component acid and vitamin C to eliminate signs of fatigue and unify skin tone.

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.

What are vitamins?

Some, like A, D, E and K are fat soluble, ie dissolve in fats, and other C-and B-complex, water soluble, but all are essential for growth and health. Do not provide calories. Nor are tissues such as proteins. Its function is to regulate the complex metabolic processes in the body. This can not synthesize and therefore must be ingested through food.

Eat everything. Are found in foods from all groups (to a greater or lesser proportion): green leafy vegetables provide vitamins E and B2, others (carrots, asparagus) containing protovitamina A; dairy products are rich in vitamins A, D, B, B2 ... vegetables contain vitamins E, B2, Bs and B9 or folic acid. To avoid missing vitamins Be and Bi should consume whole grains, vegetable oils such as sunflower or wheat germ, can secure the necessary contributions of vitamin E, fish and meats, vitamin B12, among other .

In small doses. Vitamins are essential in tiny cantidades.Una diet, varied and guarantees sufficient supply of these necessary nutrients. If the child meets this requirement, you do not need vitamin supplements.
Too much vitamins is not useful to the body, which gets rid of water through urine. The fat-soluble, however, accumulate, which can be dangerous.

11/27/2008

A fresh diet for pregnancy

The great alternative to the lack of appetite itself is the hot days in the cold dishes. "You can eat vegetables in salads, soups and cold dishes of fruit and vegetables, which are refreshing and potassium removed replenished with perspiration," explains our consultant nutritionist, Dr. Elizabeth Zamarrón.

If the pregnant woman does not want to cook at noon, there is no problem with resorting to the plate only. But it has to contain vitamins, carbohydrates, fats and proteins.

"For example, you can combine cold salad with grilled chicken, cheese or tuna, pasta with minced meat or meat or fish with a lot of garrison," said the specialist.

Creams or cold soups, salads, meat and fish on the plate are a perfect choice for dinner. In recent months, should drink a liter of water (or juice) than usual.

11/13/2008

Deviation of the legs

The arched legs, genu in men, according to the medical terminology, are one of the reasons most often arise in the consultation of the orthopedist. In many cases the cause is a deficiency of vitamin D and calcium, or a symptom of rickets. The problem is corrected as soon as the small receives the necessary input of these nutrients.

At other times the legs because warp has taken the baby to walk before they were prepared to do so. These children, especially if they are chubby, they will have their legs twisted around the 14 or 16 months.
Less frequent than the two previous cases is that the deviation is caused by an alteration of the cartilage growth.

In this case, the bones of the legs grow more on one side than the other and often needed to correct with surgery but, sometimes, splinting or simply put a brace at night.

From the second year of life, to a greater or lesser degree, all children have the legs in the form of X (genu worth), that is, knees together and feet apart. In these cases, the orthopedist may prescribe some wedges in shoes that force the legs to straighten out.

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.

10/08/2008

Caring for the elbows, knees and heels?

Not to resequen how do I take care of your heels, elbows and knees?
These points are the eternal forgotten and are areas that are fourth most rapidly than others. Allantoin and should be treated with vitamin A, prior to exfoliation to remove dead cells. If you do not have these products rub elbows with water and mild soap and then apply glycerine.

As for the stubs that are resected in summer move smoothly pumice and then a moisturizer and nutrient.

The knees should also be massaged with moisturizing lotion and nutritious.

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.

10/06/2008

Take the child enough Vitamins?

These substances are essential in achieving many and important functions in the body.

• The child needs between 40 and 60 mg / day of ascorbic acid or vitamin C. Where do they get? A citrus (orange, grapefruit, 100 g of berries) contains 50 mg. Two medium-sized potatoes provide 22 mg. One hundred grams of green or yellow vegetables provide 15 mg, and two cups of milk, 4 mg.

• The eggs and meat provide B vitamins, the milk and dairy products contain valuable B 2 and B 12. To avoid shortages, should take a small amount of approximately 100 grams of meat per day, cereals and 2 or 3 eggs a week.

• The oil and butter contain vitamin E. With 10 g of butter and 3 tablespoons of oil a day, the inputs of this nutrient are fully insured.

• legumes and vegetables are the main source of beta-carotene or protovitamina A. If you take 125 grams of vegetables and 2 pieces of fruit, consuming the 3 mg / day that the child needs.

On average, the small, fed a traditional diet, is not usually a lack of vitamins. It has assured the contributions recommended by the agencies.

10/01/2008

Lack of appetite in children

Vitamins, calcium and iron are not used to open the desire to eat, as many parents think. For that there are specific drugs that act on the regulator's appetite center, located in the brain.

But they are only recommended when a child has an illness, and must be prescribed by the pediatrician. If you do not eat the small to ensure that parents are awaiting him and make him more cases, stimulants are useless. In such circumstances, the recipe is honey, a little care and patience.

9/29/2008

Striations in pregnancy

In the pregnant something similar happens: it is very common, especially in the first quarter, in some women to wake up a voracious appetite, resulting in few kilitos over. This causes the warming of the skin, which acts on the ground that gives the increase physiological steroids.

Therefore, it is essential to care intake during these months. In a normal pregnancy weight gain should be about 10 kilograms (see this number just weight). It can be used to moisturize your skin every day from all over the body with products containing collagen, elastin, rosehips, and so on.

Once the striates is installed you can try mitigated with the use of retinoids (vitamin A acid), in high concentrations and prolonged. This treatment improves the skin, but should only be done under the supervision of a physician specialist.

9/22/2008

Some lies about baldness

There are many good tips that we have all heard that one again. Most of them have no medical basis and may even harm.

• The need more power baldies
sexual. And sexuality alopecia have nothing to do. The presence of a different potential of male hormones in the blood is not tantamount to being a master in the arts amatorias.

• Wash your hair every day is unhealthy.
The frequency with which he washes his hair in his downfall does not influence abnormal. On the contrary, specialists warn that it is better to avoid excess fat.

• The hair falls over in Autumn. The hair is not a plant. Therefore, it is not influenced by seasonal changes.

• Cut the tips of the hair makes it grow faster. Another falsehood.
Always grows at the same speed: one centimeter per month, more or less. Cut it often does not accelerate the pace of growth.

• Vitamins are conducive to the strengthening of hair.
Although the intake of vitamins in their correct proportions acts as a system of prevention, there is no direct relationship between consumption of vitamin supplements and additional parking brake hair.

Alopecia cure?

Until recently, anti-baldness remedies wore the label of magical elixir. At present, circulating in the market thousands of potingues manufactured with all sorts of substances, placentas, plants, algae and hundreds of formulas in the miraculous converted potion that promise eternal hair.

One of these products is Viviscal, a compound of extracts of marine origin with "proteins, mucopolysaccharides cartilaginous fish, minerals and amino acids briquettes" according to its prospectus says.

Another was Capivax, a Chinese cure of plant origin. Their effectiveness is yet to prove. Even the modern-drug treatments mainly based on the administration of minoxidil-only produce a growth of hair on, and not all patients.

And within the world of cosmetics, large firms have shampoos and treatments to combat the fall. One of the last preparations in the market is the Aminexil, a molecule antifibrosis related minoxidil, or that firms like Kérastase Vichy (L'Oreal) are already marketed.

For some specialists, however, the best solution is prevention. And a key factor is food. There are substances such as vitamins and trace elements in group B that are necessary for development, formation and growth of hair. The low consumption of oats, barley or wheat conducive to its downfall. And the snuff and alcohol are triggers for a loss of these substances which, if not replace, weaken the hair.

Maintaining a diet rich in vitamin A, B complex, proteins and carbohydrates can help delay the alopecia, and, in the same way, frequent massages and heat promote the reduction of the fall, and that increases vasodilation and metabolic activity.

9/10/2008

Symptoms of diabetes

What are your symptoms and how it is diagnosed
The most common symptoms of diabetes include excessive thirst, increased frequency of urination or impulse to urinate (especially at night), weight loss and blurred vision. If your presentation at least two of these symptoms, it is very important that as soon as possible acudir to consult your doctor so you can make the necessary evidence and discard or confirm the diagnosis, whatever the case.

A test that is performed to diagnose diabetes is known as "test glucose tolerance", and consists of chipping with a lancet the thumb or index of the person to be fasting, to review their blood sugar levels in the blood test before food. In healthy people, these levels should be less than 100 milligrams of glucose in a deciliter of blood.

Takes enough vitamin E
Recent studies have found lower concentrations of vitamin E in patients with diabetes than in healthy subjects completely. A new study conducted by the school of medicine at the University of Naples, said that taking daily supplements of the vitamin may improve the action of insulin in diabetes patients and in healthy men. Corn oil, wheat germ and nuts are rich sources of vitamin E.

Subsequently, it gives the person to swallow a drink containing 75 grams of glucose, it becomes to take another blood sample an hour, and then, within two hours. If the new person does not exceed 200 milligrams per deciliter of blood in the first hour, and 150 milligrams in the second, then is considered a normal state of health.

A diagnosis of diabetes must be confirmed positive, if at least two of three readings are abnormal.
If only one reading is abnormal, then it is possible that there is some sort of impaired glucose tolerance without this mean you want to be diabetes. But nevertheless, this implies that the person tends to introduce diabetes in the future and therefore it is advisable to begin to take care of now.
Another consideration that may make your doctor is the urine, which notes the possible presence of sugar in it.

If you have questions or want to know where to turn in the event that these symptoms above, it is more advisable to consult a doctor or endocrinologist, a nutriólogo, which can tell what to do in the event that your diagnosis proves positive.

Although diabetes can not prevent as such because there is a genetic predisposition to the disease, there are measures in the lifestyle of people who can reduce the risk of that disease. A balanced diet that contains few children from sugars (candy, cakes, ice cream, soft drinks, etc..), High in fiber (whole grains, fruits and vegetables), water and practice of physical activity throughout life, are factors that alone helps to have normal levels of blood sugar.

9/08/2008

The plant nutrients frozen

Although many people think that frozen vegetables have lost most of its nutrients, this is totally untrue. Several studies on nutrition indicate that frozen vegetables and fruits are generally as nutritious as fresh.

In one study examined the loss of vitamin C in a number of plants. This vitamin is considered a good indicator of freshness, because it is unstable and is very easy to miss during the treatment process food, its preparation and cooking time. If you still have to consider vitamin C, then this indicates that either have lost their other vitamins and minerals.

The percentages of nutritional loss may differ from plant to plant, and it is true that through the process of freezing reach lose vitamin C. However, this loss is minimal, and their nutritional levels remained almost constant.

• peas. Retienen 60 to 70 percent of its vitamin C. This means that there are almost as much vitamin C in the frozen peas as the frescoes that are at the grocery store shelves.

• Green Beans. The frozen are so fresh as those that have been stored at room temperature for one day.

• Broccoli. It retains approximately 80 percent of its vitamin C, equivalent to broccoli that has been stored for three days at room temperature.

• Spinach. When frozen loses only 20 percent of its vitamin C, this is equivalent to the same loss when stored at room temperature for one day.
According to experts, the problem is not in plants, but in how they are stored. The worst way to save fresh vegetables is in fourth at room temperature.

• kept chilled, you reduce the time of deterioration, but does not stop completely.

9/04/2008

How your hands look beautiful

The sweeping or washing leaves much tripe, stains or marks that can not disguise the best jewelry or bright. Without going to extreme cases, women are mothers and housewives, we work constantly threatening the aesthetics of our hands.
To moisturize hands there options emulsions light and easy absorption.

Today, there are many brands of cosmetics that fortunately filters include anti-UV-A and anti-UV-B, moisturizing nutritious, solar reflectors and regenerative and soothing agents such as vitamins A and E.
But skin care is not enough. We must not forget the care of their nails.

The manicures and Techniques of nails, each day are more prominence and more products that allow them to work creatively. Beyond fashion or convenience that we look to when deciding whether to carry longer or shorter, square or rounded tips, nails strong and lengthy are essential to beautify our hands.

To nail very "brittle" or that "desquamation," there are specific products to harden its structure. It should be borne in mind that the nail plate is formed by a combination of flexibility and strength. The degree of harshness of layers depends on the threads of keratina, which are the strong part of the plate. Flexibility is a result of moisture present at the plate. Therefore it should not be abusing handwashing as nails too exposed to water weaken and end up part or scales.

One option "immediate results", is sculpted. Sculptured nails are ideal for avoiding all defects, even advisable for those with the habit of "Eat." The process ensures "as nails" and provides for the tastes of every woman with regard to length, shape and decoration, to showcase their hands 24 hours a day.

7/24/2008

Quality of food in pregnancy

It is important to take into account the quality of food. Protein, minerals (especially calcium, iron, magnesium and fluoride) and some vitamin complex, as folic acid and vitamins A, B12, C, D and others, must be present in the daily diet.

This is sufficient if it makes, in addition, 60 grams of protein and at least not less than 2,000 calories in total. Milk, ideally should not participate in amounts less than half a litre every day. Of course you can offset this amount including yogurts, cheeses and other food preparations containing it (flan, ice cream, etc.).. The dairy bring a bit of everything: calories, protein and calcium, among other nutritional elements.

While along the pregnancy Theory increases in the caloric requirement, is no less true that the activity decreases significantly by the largest volume it occupies the abdomen, particularly the position to be taken to offset the imbalance that the weight of pregnancy produces in front of the spine and fatigue by not being able to sleep comfortably and having to charge slopes greater weight to become accustomed. As a result, since practical purposes, it is sufficient to maintain the same diet without variants for nine months.

Vomiting may affect the first quarter producing a low weight when they are very frequent and intense-which only affects a minority portion of the total pregnant women.

In most cases, by their quantity, are not sufficient to determine a malnutrition. Given the doubt, always imposing the immediate consultation of the obstetrician. Fraction diet in six meals a day helps to control vomiting.

7/21/2008

The importance of the liver

In this organ of our body, was awarded more than 500 functions. Among many others, to store sugar and fat, the formation of antibodies, the elimination of toxins, digestion and absorption of fats and vitamins A, D, K and E.

Many hormones are processed in the liver, hence that when it fails it can cause alterations in the hormonal functions.

Moreover, cholesterol, from which they form the so-called "sex hormones (estrogen, progesterone, testosterone), needed when the liver was severely affected, causing thus disturbances in the menstrual cycle.

And that's not all: this is a body self-sufficient, being able to regenerate quickly. Even though much of its substance has been removed by surgery, in a few months the liver grows, standardizing its activity almost completely.