Isabella Turner
Folic Acid Reduce Colorectal Cancer Risk
A team of South Korean scientists reported that consuming folic acid would significantly reduce the risk of developing colorectal cancer, at least in women.
The study on 596 patients with colorectal cancer and 509 healthy people, the authors found that women who consumed the most folic acid, or folate, had two thirds less risk of disease than women who ate the least amount of vitamin B.
But the consumption of folate did not significantly alter the risk of colorectal cancer in men, the team of J. Kim from the National Cancer Center in Goyang.
The colorectal cancer mortality was multiplied six times in the South Korean since the 1980s, said the team, and increasingly Westernized diet influence the increase.
There is evidence that consumption of folate that is found in green leafy vegetables and citrus fruits, reduce the risk of colorectal cancer, although some studies suggest that this protective effect may vary according to ethnicity. Continue reading
Magnesium is An Indispensable Macromineral
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Magnesium is an essential mineral in human nutrition for the many benefits it brings to the body. It ranks among the macro-called because their daily requirements are greater than 100 mg.
Magnesium Benefits
Although there are many benefits in magnesium, is known especially for contributing to the absorption of calcium and for being a powerful muscle relaxant. We know that is involved in various bodily functions such as production and transportation of energy and protein production performance of certain enzymes.
Magnesium helps maintain healthy nervous system, is a powerful natural tranquilizer that promotes sleep and relaxation, so it is recommended antidepressants and anti-stress treatments.
Other offers many benefits magnesium are: prevent kidney stones; decreases premenstrual pains to intervene in the hormonal balance, prevent premature birth, protects cardiovascular disease, controls intestinal flora and acts as a mild laxative and as an antacid.
Magnesium may be reduced considerably by refining processes and cooking foods that are submitted, as well as chemical fertilizers used in cultivation. Continue reading
Healthy Eating – Food Laws
1. Law of quantity: The amount of food should be sufficient to meet the body’s caloric needs. Foods that provide mainly calories (energy) are carbohydrates and fats.
How many calories should be enough to provide heat to maintain body temperature, the energy of muscle contraction and the nutritional balance.
From the standpoint of calories, a diet may be, sufficient, insufficient, or too generous. According to this law, slimming considered “insufficient” because they allow a decrease in weight at the expense of a reduced calorie content.
The caloric requirement for each particular person must be determined by a nutrition professional, considering age, sex, complexion, activity, special situations: diabetes, obesity, malnutrition, etc..
2. Quality Act: Any diet should be complete in its composition, ensuring the proper functioning of organs and systems. In any regime must be present: carbohydrates, proteins, fats, vitamins, minerals and water. According to this law, the regimes are classified as complete (varied) and incomplete. Continue reading
Tips and Advice for Healthy Eating II
To lose weight without being hungry is to eat everything, because they discover that to obtain a healthy weight is more important how to cook and eat the amount of each major food group.
To follow a boring mono-based diet of celery and lettuce, you have to eat what is needed and no power save that we provide food, you have to spend through physical activity that is the best ally to lose weight and avoid kilos gain with age and that the body adjusts to stay nimble and healthy.
Make a change in our dietary habits by implementing a proper plan our daily requirement is not easy but not impossible and is worth a try as they get many benefits including:
* Do not starve
* Enjoy your meal
* No need to eat a different menu to the rest of the family Continue reading
Tips and Advice for Healthy Eating I
Food Attitude
When a patient tells me I lost weight with “such a diet ‘, I ask you this: do you really gained weight?. No, because if they really have done, would not be trying again to lose weight.
Just what these people have done is one of those fad diets that are anecdotes after them, because they did not solve the fundamental problem is to lose weight, learn to keep it and learn to eat well.
Most people who have lost weight and keep it at the time could not follow a specific diet, have learned to eat.
They are aware that your weight stays on the point that they want because they take food to suit your lifestyle and spending power that they do.
To achieve this they have learned that eating healthy is to eat everything, good portions, less fat and have no excess with food, ie now have another “attitude” toward food. Continue reading
Prevention of Allergies
Can I prevent allergies. What recommendations could give us a better way to address them?
The doctor after examining the patient, perform a physical examination and knowing your medical history and family history, you can perform a series of tests such as skin test.
The skin test and allergic skin test involves applying a series of known substances that often cause allergies. Are injected through a lance to a few millimeters below the skin.
Each substance is inoculated separately in order to see which of them is what causes the allergic reaction. After spending 15-20 minutes there is skin to see what red zone.
When it comes to other substances such as certain foods or medications, should be subject the patient to an induction to the reaction under medical supervision.
The Symptoms of Allergy Sufferers
What are the symptoms that allergy sufferers?
The pollen allergy rhinitis seasonal produce. Symptoms vary from patient to patient but, generally, are characterized by sneezing a lot and have congestion, itching or fluid in the nose. His eyes may also have itching, burning, swelling or be watery.
Other signs are itchy throat and cough. You can also have their ears plugged or diminish the sense of taste or smell. Sudden changes in temperature, smoke snuff and environmental pollution can worsen this allergy.
Some people have more severe symptoms as they are, in addition to the above, headaches, irritability, insomnia, sneezing and watery eyes. Sometimes you notice shortness of breath and wheezing with breathing.
Symptoms of food allergy: urticaria, eczema, swelling of lips, hands, feet, shock, and atopic dermatitis. The most common symptoms in children are diarrhea, abdominal pain and vomiting.
The Symptoms and Causes of Allergies
If you feel itchy eyes, sneezing more than usual and have welts on the body … Most likely you are suffering from the dreaded allergy, an enemy who attacks us with more force when the spring begins.
Intiminero spoke with the Doctor, Denisse Moran, Chief Medical Collahuasi to know more about allergies, how can we confront them, their symptoms and some basic recommendations for addressing, among other related aspects.
What are allergies, what causes them?
An allergy is an overreaction of the body to a substance perceived as a harmful agent.
The human body contains a number of components, cells and proteins that are responsible to defend when attacked by foreign agents. These components form the immune system.
Sometimes agents are considered harmful to the body, are not dangerous but that is as perceived by the defense system. When these agents come into contact with the body produces an exaggerated response that causes the symptoms of allergies.
The Benefits of Blueberries II
There are three or four species of cranberry, classified in two sections:
* Oxycoccus or Oxycoccus Vaccinium palustris (Common Cranberry or Northern Cranberry). It is found throughout the Northern Hemisphere cold area, including northern Europe, northern Asia and North America.
The leaves are small, between 5 and 10 mm. The leaves are dark pink with a purple central spike, and grow on stems finely hairy. The fruit is a small pale pink berry, with a refreshing sharp taste sour.
* Vaccinium microcarpum or Oxycoccus microcarpus (small cranberry), which occurs in northern Europe and northern Asia, and differs in that the leaves are more triangular, and flower stems are hairless. Some botanists include it in V. oxycoccus.
* Vaccinium macrocarpon or Oxycoccus macrocarpus (American Cranberry) native to northern North America (eastern Canada and eastern United States, south of North Carolina at high altitudes). It differs from V. oxycoccus in the leaves are larger, between 10 and 20 mm in length, and taste slightly similar to the block.
* Vaccinium erythrocarpum or Oxycoccus erythrocarpus (mountain cranberry south), is native to southeastern North America at high altitudes in the southern Appalachian Mountains, and also in East Asia.
The Benefits of Blueberries I
So it is a wild fruit in the form of berries, which are usually black-blue or red, which grows in mountainous areas, not too humid, or limestone, not too fertile.
Anthocyanins and carotenoids are abundant in the composition of all fruits. From the biochemical point of view are characterized by a high antioxidant activity; neutralize the action of free radicals that are harmful to the body.
These properties can lead to very different physiological effects, inflammatory and antibacterial effects of anthocyanins, among others. These fruits contain, in addition to the anthocyanins and carotenoids, other antioxidants such as vitamin C.
The dietary intake of these substances enhances our immune system or the body’s defenses and helps reduce the risk of degenerative diseases, cardiovascular diseases and even cancer. Also, vitamin C has the ability to promote absorption of iron from food.
The name cranberry refers to a group of evergreen dwarf shrubs in the genus Vaccinium, subgenus Oxycoccus, although some botanists believe Oxycoccus a separate genus. They grow in acidic bogs in the colder areas of the Northern Hemisphere.
The cranberry bush is low, with stems of 10 cm or less, with thin stems and small evergreens. The flowers are dark pink, with distinctive petals “reflected” leaving the style and stamens fully exposed, pointing forward. The fruit is a berry-sized authentic than the leaves. It is initially white, but turns bright red when ripe.