With proper diet, weight loss was balanced, even more healthy body. Who want to maintain your weight, do not be vain to believe in myths about diet berkembagn. The following diet myths that need your attention
1. No dinner
Avoid dinner to lose weight, is a myth that is not right. Weight is influenced by the total calories minus calories diasup issued in a day (weight loss = diasup total calories – calories are issued).
If dinner is removed, then replaced it with a little food for the hungry, and eat a small meal to replace dinner high in calories, so weight will not stay down. Eliminating dinner will also result in the emergence of complaints body uncomfortable, hungry, or even gastric disorders (ulcer). Read the rest of this entry »
Healthy Diet with Prostate Cancer
Cancer, Diet Tips September 24th, 2009
CANCER same prostate for men with breast cancer frightening for women. Although prostate cancer is often not fatal, can damage the quality of life, the prostate often cause sexual dysfunction (impotence) and inkontinensi urine (wet).
Both side effects were clearly a heavy blow for him. Diagnosis of prostate cancer is like coming of the Hour. In fact, preventive measures for this disease actually is not too difficult.
A good diet or a diet may reduce prostate cancer risk by 50 percent. Thus disclosed John Hibbs, naturopathic physician experts from Bastyr University, Seattle, Washington, United States.
Preventing is always better than cure. Preventive measures that will be very profitable if run by those who are at increased risk of prostate cancer.
Who are these high-risk groups?
- Men aged 50 years and over.
- Having a history of prostate cancer in the family (father or brother had prostate cancer).
- African-American race (this still needs detailed study, but the race is expected riskier than whites).
Offered a way to prevent John Hibbs, namely diet, obviously very natural and easy to do. The men just need to discipline ourselves to live it. Steps include cutting the consumption of fat, more fruits and vegetables mengasup, and so on, such as falling below.
Adding fish intake and omega 3
Omega 3, a very friendly nutrients to the heart seems to help prevent prostate cancer. Research Laboratory demonstrate the power of omega 3 in stop the development of tumor cells of the prostate.
When Harvard University researchers tested 48,000 U.S. men for 12 years, men who ate fish more than 3 times per week, 44 percent less prostate cancer than those who ate fish less than twice a month.
Omega-3 fatty acids found in cold water fish such as salmon, mackerel, trout, and mussels. You can also fish oil supplements.
Reduce meat and dairy
If you want to avoid prostate cancer, stay away from fatty foods such as meat and milk. Many studies suggested, foods high in saturated fat increases the risk of prostate cancer up to two or three times as much.
Japanese men are still adhered to the traditional diet, which is a lot of eating fish rather than junk food, have a risk which is much less to get prostate cancer than American men.
Why is meat and milk are considered dangerous? According to Hibbs, saturated fat contained in them can stimulate inflammation, which in turn supports the growth of tumors. When you accumulate in animal fat in the body, it was tantamount to cutting the levels of cancer-preventing antioxidants.
Try to replace red meat with fish or skinless poultry meat. Forget the full-fat milk, and milk exchange with low or no fat. Once suggestions Hibbs.
Choose soy
Women are often advised to eat soy to strengthen bones and other healthful benefits. Based on the latest research, men are also advised to eat more soy.
Researchers have studied the health of 12,000 people for about 20 years. Men who drank soy milk more than once per day, not 70 percent more at risk for prostate cancer than men who did not drink it.
Therefore, should the men started drinking soy milk diligent. Can also change the mix of milk for cereal or coffee, with soy milk.
Expand vegetables
In 2000, researchers from the University of Hawaii examine diet of 3237 men. Half suffered from prostate and half did not. The survey proved, the men who were cancer-free mengasup more vegetables and legumes. A recent study in Canada showed the same results. So, if you want to be free of prostate cancer, eat at least five servings of vegetables a day.
Complete with Tomatoes
Vegetables that contain substances most prostate prevention is tomato. Tomatoes contain lycopene, a carotenoid family that are antioxidants.
The scientists from Yale University have analyzed blood samples from 473 men, both prostate cancer, or who do not. They found that men who have prostate cancer-free more lycopene in their blood than those who are sick.
The best of lycopene found in cooked tomatoes. Cooking tomatoes not only maximize the function of lycopene, but also adds flavor to the tomato itself. Now lycopene can be obtained in supplement form, but the best course of natural fresh ingredients.
“Tomatoes contain more carotenoids, except lycopene, and all that important,” said Dr. William Dahut of the U.S. National Cancer Institute. Consumption of tomatoes at least 3 a week to prevent prostate cancer.
Selenium
Selenium into the belle of cancer prevention in 1996 when a study showed an unexpected result. Researchers from the University of Arizona provides supplemental selenium to skin cancer patients every day, hoping to prevent a recurrence. This did not give many benefits.
However, after six years of results showed that administration of selenium that can actually reduce the growth of prostate cancer. These results are corroborated by several other studies.
Selenium is found in plant foods such as garlic. To meet the need, you can also take supplements of selenium 200 meg per day.
Consumption of vitamin E
Finnish researchers found that vitamin E may reduce the risk of prostate cancer up to 32 percent. The problem is difficult to get vitamin E intake of adequate daily food. Vegetable oils rich in vitamins, but the process can change the levels of processing. Peanuts, beans, and green vegetables also contain this vitamin. So that the body needs adequate, you can get vitamin E from supplements with a dose of 400 IU per day. / *
Balanced Diet Corellation with Child Achievement
Diet Tips September 12th, 2009
NUTRITION balanced not only crucial to the growth of the child physically. But more than that, a balanced intake of nutrients can also improve the quality of intelligence and boost children’s school achievement.
Evidence of the importance of a healthy diet of children in school achievements expressed the results of research into students’ students in Nova Scotia, Canada, which published the Journal of School Health April edition.
From the results of the study revealed, students who consume a diet with balanced nutrients from fruits, vegetables, protein, fiber and other healthy components have significantly better test results at school.
Dr. Paul J. Veugelers who initiated this research with colleagues from the University of Alberta in Edmonton emphasized, although considered a healthy diet plays an important role for the intelligence of children, but research on this issue actually still fairly rare.
In a research entitled Children Lifestyle and shool-Perfomance Study, Veugelers and his team monitored about 4600 fifth grade children in Nova Scotia. Research data recorded 875 students or 19.1 percent of the participants who failed the basic skills test.
To measure the quality of students’ diets, researchers make judgments based on several indicators such as balance and diversity of food.
Research results show, the better the quality of the students diet lower their tendency to fail in tests. This conclusion is taken into account a number of researchers after the influence of factors such as income and education level of parents, school and gender.
Another important fact is the research habits of eating fruits vegetables in large quantities and mengonsumi sedkit fat, also associated with lower risk of failure in the test.
Looking ahead, Veugelers and his team hope that more research on diet and its relationship to achievement in school. Research should also focus on such things as the importance of breakfast, the influence of the pain of hunger and malnutrition (malnutrition).
Popular Diet
Diet Tips September 12th, 2009
When choosing a diet program, which sought the results of cespleng. But, every diet that there is an excess and deficiency. In order not one chose, first try to identify dietary patterns popular among dieters.
High-protein diet
Created by Dr. Robert Atkins in the tahun’70.
Rules of the game: Minimize your intake of carbohydrates and sugars, and replace them with more protein and fat.
Plus: When carbohydrate intake is minimized, the body will immediately burn fat there, so that your metabolism increases. As a result, the weight can come down quickly but with a natural way.
Minus: In the early days of the diet, there could be a phase in which the low carbohydrate intake can lead to excessive fatigue, headaches, and discomfort in the body. The reason this diet does not count the calories a person needs. Thus, there is the assumption that the perpetrators may mistakenly eat fat or oil at will. In fact, fat is meant by Atkins is the type of fat should be ‘good’ (unsaturated fats). If the ‘fat’ then translated freely eat fried foods or offal, that’s a dangerous thing.,
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Mediterranean Diet Reduce Depression Risk
Diet Tips September 2nd, 2009
It is impossible to live without stress. However, healthy lifestyle, including diet known effective to prevent adverse effects of stress or depression.
The Mediterranean diet is a diet loaded with vegetables, fruits, nuts, cereals (whole grains), and fish, recommended by experts to prevent depression. This is evidenced by a study conducted researchers from Spain to 11,000 people.
Respondents who followed the Mediterranean diet reduced the risk of depression by 30 percent compared to those with diets rich in vegetables and other foods like those found in the Mediterranean diet.
Research method is to record the daily intake of the respondents through questionnaires. Eating habits of the respondents viewed by some components, such as the ratio of saturated fatty acids consumed, intake of meat, milk and derivative products, intake of fruits and nuts, cereals, vegetables, fish, and alcohol consumption. Read the rest of this entry »
