Food and Nutrient
What are Genetically Modified Foods?
Few issues related to the use of gene technology have organized such a stir as Genetically Modified foods (GM foods). Environmental organizations have launched various campaigns warning of the risks that entails distribution of such foods on the health of people and the environment, even without providing conclusive evidence.
What are GM foods?
Genetically engineered foods are those that come from plants genetically modified by techniques in which man alters the genetic material of organisms (DNA) in an artificial way, or does not occur normally in nature.
This technology has different names, such as biotechnology, genetic engineering, recombinant DNA technology, or simply genetic engineering, and basically involves the transfer of certain selected genes from one organism to another organism or even other unrelated species. Read the rest of this entry »
Protective effect of caffeine for the memory in women
Drink at least three cups of coffee per day, or six cups of tea, would have beneficial effects on memory and cognitive abilities of women aged 65 and over by a French research published in the journal Neurology.
Woman drink Coffee
The study by the National Institute of Health and Medical Research (INSERM) in collaboration with the University of Lisbon, reviewed
for four years the effects of caffeine on cognitive function (mental abilities) in a group of 4197 women and 2820 men aged 65 and older.
Taking into account several factors that may affect cognitive performance (age, education, cardiovascular disease, depression, etc..) Analysis shows that women who drank at least three cups of coffee a day have a lower probability of 33% decline verbal memory and 18% of the visual and spatial memory compared with women not drinking one cup per day or less.
The benefits of caffeine on memory increase with age. “Our results show that more women are moving away from menopause, the greater the benefit of caffeine is important,” said Karen Ritchie, head of the study.
It remains to understand why caffeine protects only women: “It is possible that men and women metabolize caffeine differently or even that there is a hormonal interaction,” suggests the researcher.
Research on mice has suggested that caffeine blocked the accumulation of proteins that leads to mental decline.
Nuts and Allergy
The nuts are relatively high in fat, so we tend to exclude them from the diet when what is intended is to lose weight.
However, it is scientifically proven that, despite the high fat they possess, their are monounsaturated fatty acids. It was shown that by replacing saturated fatty acids with monounsaturated or polyunsaturated acids may decrease blood levels of LDL, the famous “bad” cholesterol.
But nuts also have other qualities: almost all of them – almonds, cashews, peanuts and walnuts – are an excellent source of antioxidants like vitamin E and selenium. Nuts and nut oils are also good sources of omega-3 acid, associated with reducing heart disease. Finally, these small delights have the power to give us a feeling of satiety that could prevent chewing anxious and weight gain.
One against the nuts – apart from its high calorie content, as we have seen – is that they can cause allergies. An estimated 1 in 200 people is affected, even slightly, this allergy.
For all this it is important that you consult your doctor nuts, what amounts to include in your diet and if there is possibility that you are allergic to them.
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Benefits of Broccoli
Each day reaffirms the benefits of broccoli for health. Broccoli is the family of cruciferous vegetables such as cauliflower, Brussels sprouts or red cabbage. It comes from Italy was popularized by the U.S., who consume large quantities. Boiled, steamed, or sauteed broccoli is a vegetable full of advantages.
Benefits of Broccoli:
- It is beneficial against atherosclerosis due to sulforaphane, a molecule is abundant in broccoli and other vegetables like cabbage, cauliflower. This molecule has a very beneficial effect on atherosclerotic plaques (responsible for cardiovascular disease). Professor Peter Weissberg, medical director of the British Heart Foundation, which funded this research on the benefits of broccoli in atherosclerosis states that “this fascinating finding sheds light on a possible mechanism, through which, the diet rich in vegetables (such as the Mediterranean diet) protects against cardiovascular disease. “
- Has antibacterial effects,
- Reduces risk of ulcers
- Broccoli is the beneficial properties against anemia
- It acts against cancer-causing free radicals.
- It acts as a hormone regulator and the level of estrogen
- Its consumption improves the intestinal transit.
- Are recommended in the diet of pregnant women for their excellent contribution and minerals as well as antioxidants, potassium and vitamins that help prevent cellular aging.
There are delicious recipes with broccoli, has almost no calories and if many healthy properties.
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Various Benefits of Bananas
Power Source Power
Bananas are easily digested, the sugar contained in fruit is converted into a good source of quick energy, and that’s good in the formation of the body, to the working muscles, and is great for relieving fatigue.
Benefits for Pregnant Women
Bananas are also recommended for pregnant women consumed because they contain folic acid, which is easily absorbed by the fetus through the uterus. However, do not be too much, because one banana contains about 85-100 calories.
Benefits to Patients with Anemia
Two bananas are eaten by patients with anemia of every day was enough, because it contains Fe (iron) high.
Benefits for Stomach and Intestine Disease
Banana milk mixed with liquid (or inserted in a glass of milk) can serve as a remedy in cases of intestinal disease. It can also be recommended for patients with abdominal pain and cholik to neutralize gastric acidity. Read the rest of this entry »
Inhibitor of Nutrients Absorption III
When ingested, these compounds hinder the absorption of carbohydrates and proteins.
The digestive system has enzymes called amylases that are responsible for breaking the chains of carbohydrates into simple links so they can be absorbed and enter the blood.
The wheat and pulses have these amylase inhibiting substances that cause so carbohydrates are absorbed less. This makes them suitable in the treatment of diabetes or obesity, although some of these inhibitory substances are destroyed by stomach enzymes.
The digestive system also has substances such as trypsin that breaks the chain of proteins called amino acids links diet, suitable for absorption and passage into the blood.
Soybeans, beans, peas, lentils, beans, etc., Antitrypsin have a factor that prevents the absorption of amino acids in dietary protein. But the substance is inactive when these foods are calientan.Otros foods such as cocoa, beans, bananas and nuts have substances called tannins, which combine with proteins and hinder the absorption of these.
Inhibitor of Nutrients Absorption II
Dietary fiber has the same effect. Other vegetables in the cruciferous family such as mustard greens, turnips, radishes, cabbage, broccoli and oil seed rape, have substances called glucosinolates that are capable of generating isocyanates, which interfere with the metabolism of iodine in the diet can cause goiter disease if they are abused and not compensated by intake of other foods that provide iodine, like fish.
2. Substances that interfere with vitamins
Some vegetables such as carrots, squash, cabbage, tomatoes and melons have an enzyme called ascorbasa that transforms vitamin C to dehydroascorbic acid which has no such capacity as vitamin C. Blanching of these foods destroys this enzyme and prevents the destruction of vitamin C.
3. Substances that alter the absorption of proteins
Other foods such as legumes, cereals and tubers have substances act on the ground to defend it from attacks by insects and microorganisms.
Inhibitor of Nutrients Absorption I
Did you know that the composition of certain foods are substances capable of interfering with the absorption of nutritional elements necessary for the body?
That the amount of calcium, iron, vitamins and protein you take with some food not used at all in the company of other foods?
1. Substances that alter the absorption of minerals
Some vegetables such as spinach, beet greens, parsley, celery and fruits such as strawberries and raspberries, including cocoa and tea have excellent nutrition with vitamins and antioxidants but they also have a substance, oxalic acid and its salts, which precipitates of the calcium we take with the diet, thereby reducing its absorption by the body.
This is no risk to human health, but should know and not to abuse these foods without offset higher intakes of foods that provide calcium as milk, yogurt or cheese.
Cereals, pulses and oilseeds have a substance called phytic acid and phytase that hinder the absorption of calcium, copper, zinc, magnesium and iron by the intestinal mucosa.
No Need to worry about Aspartame
Rampant issues about the dangers of the artificial sweetener aspartame which is often repeated is actually not much to worry about. Artificial sweetener aspartame is safe for health, and so far have not found evidence of research would negatively impact the use of this sweetener in the long term.
Society is always shadowed by fears of using products containing aspartame because of information received by half-measures. Plus a misunderstanding about the content of phenylalanine in aspartame that can lead to phenylketonuria.
Phenylalanine warning labels that must be included on products containing aspartame to patients with phenylketonuria who actually had to manage the disease early. However, this label is often misconstrued that aspartame contributes to the phobia.
In fact, phenylketonuria is a very rare metabolic disease, ie, only 1 in 15,000 people. These abnormalities arise because someone is born with his body does not produce an enzyme called phenylalanine hydroxylase digest phenylalanine. If not handled since birth, phenylketonuria can come up with mental retardation and various other permanent effects that it is impossible to normal people infected without knowing it.
phenylalanine is an unusual protein components that can be digested by the body perfectly. In addition to phenylalanine, aspartame is digested too perfect to be aspartic acid and methanol.
Because the three components that can be digested in a perfect body that is categorized as a sweetener aspartame non-Xenobiotic. Aspartame is different from the other two types of popular sweetener, saccharin and cyclamate that which belonged to Xenobiotic.
Saccharin and cyclamate Xenobiotic called because it contains compounds in the body decomposed into foreign components not metabolized to produce the calories and is not a structural description of the body. No wonder when saccharin and cyclamate have the aftertaste (feel follow-up) bitter. Bitter flavor is obtained from material that can not be metabolized by the body.
For security reasons, the public can also watch the amount of allowable daily intake of aspartame. Various agencies oversee food safety, including POM, is already implementing acceptable daily intake (ADI) for aspartame is 50 mg per kg body weight per day.
Reduce Hypertension squash
Who does not know squash? In everyday life, squash is known as a healthy fruit vegetables. The fruit can be cooked vegetable Lodeh, oseng-oseng, or vegetable acids. Stem and leaf buds used to make lalap youth as a friend to eat rice.
In Mexico, a year old tubers delicious food made after boiling. No wonder, the plant known as the pumpkin jipang, and in the international world of this so-called supernumerary chayote food for the people of Mexico.
These plants are planted people in the field or in the yard. Plants named Latin Sechium edule this reinw spread and wrapped around the trunk so that should be planted close to another tree or pergola-arbor provided that can be wrapped around the stem. This plant is native of South America, the leaf-shaped curve of the hand, while the bell-shaped fruit. Read the rest of this entry »
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