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Medicinal Use of Banana
Since ancient times it was said that the banana has ideal properties for the treatment of some digestive disorders, which has been tested in our day because research has shown that the pulp contains substances with antiseptic (kills bacteria), in the intestinal smooth oils that reduce inflammation and irritation of mucous membranes (tissues that line the inside smooth digestive system) plus a protein, pectin, which favors the evacuation of the colon.
Specifically, it is said that when the fruit is ripe helps relieve discomfort caused by gastritis or ulcer (inflammation and perforation of the stomach wall, respectively), in addition to combat constipation and is effective in the treatment of colitis (inflammation of the intestine thickness due to infections, stress or eating disorders), and hemorrhoids (dilated veins located in the rectum or anus). Moreover, evidence shows that when green is effective in controlling diarrhea. Read the rest of this entry »
Energy and Minerals in Banana
The plantain or banana is a fruit that many excluded from your diet because they find it difficult to digest or believe it has lots of calories, but these ideas are only half-truths, and that in fact the consumption of this food offers unique health benefits. Know it and integrate it in their food!
The banana is a fruit that is popular in the world, especially in Asian countries from which, like India, Bangladesh, Myanmar (formerly Burma), Malaysia, Thailand and China, South Africa, including Botswana , Namibia, Mozambique, Zimbabwe and South Africa and in tropical regions of Mexico, West Indies, Central and South America, where European settlers introduced the crop to note that successfully acclimatized.
The different species of banana tree (Musa paradisiaca, scientific name means “fruit of paradise”) produce fruits that, in general, are elongated and have soft, sweet flesh that is protected by a tough skin, almost always are yellow and are united in groups called fronds. However, each type has unique characteristics in size, color and flavor, which can distinguish many varieties that are more or less accepted. Read the rest of this entry »
Calcium in Vegetables (II)
Calcium is one of the most abundant mineral in the body.
Their highest concentrations were found in the bones and teeth (up to 98%), but is also present in the blood, muscles and even your hair.
To form hard structures such as bone calcium must be attached to the phosphorus, and absorption through the gut. But for the calcium go where it should, has to have enough vitamin D, as well as the proper pH acidity in the digestive system and a minimum dose of exercise. They are also essential for certain quantities of fat and protein assimilation. Read the rest of this entry »
Calcium in Vegetables (I)
Healthy bones and strong teeth, achieving this goal depends largely on calcium, one of the most important and abundant minerals in the body, and the best-known source for it is dairy products.
But an exclusively vegetarian diet can also be rich in this mineral, provided that consume the right amounts of products containing it and make the right food combinations.
There is no doubt that vegetarianism has many health benefits. Read the rest of this entry »
Oyster Mushrooms
Fungal efficacy for healthy body is evident. In addition to containing a variety of essential amino acids, fats, minerals, and vitamins, there is also an important matter affecting the medical aspect. Since many centuries ago, the fungus has become a special diet so many people become fans.
It’s hereditary Japanese and Chinese society to complete the menu with the mushrooms. Not only delicacy of taste, but also high in nutritional value. The ancient Greeks believed, cause a person to eat mushrooms become stronger and healthier. The result of their more powerful, brave and mighty. Pharaoh, King of Egypt’s famously nasty, heavy penghobi eat mushrooms. So special, it was called the king of mushrooms as a food of the gods.
Nutrient
Not only appetizing, mushrooms have a good nutrient content. Contained the chemical composition depending on the type and place of growth. From the results of the study, the average mushrooms contain 19-35 percent protein. Compared to rice (7.38 percent) and wheat (13.2 percent), he had higher protein yield. Essential amino acid found in mushrooms, about a nine kinds of the 20 known amino acids.
A special 72 percent unsaturated fat, mushrooms also contain various types of vitamins, including B1 (thiamine), B2 (riboflavine), niacin and biotin. In addition to micro elements, mushrooms also contain various types of minerals, such as K, P, Ca, Na, Mg, and Cu. Fiber from 7,4-24,6 percent very good for digestion. Mushrooms have calories so low that works for dieters.
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oystermusrooms for colesterol/Zingiberaceae: Curcuma Longa
The plants of the Zingiberaceae family are used on all continents, mainly in the tropical-equatorial regions, for their odoriferous properties, cooking (spices) and medicinal plants, which are shared to varying degrees by all genres
The best known, Zingiber, Curcuma, Hydechium, from Eurasia but subspontaneous or cultivated throughout the world even for purely American genres (Costus, Renealmia).
They also include types Kaemferia, Alpinia, Ammomum, Boesenbergia.
These are generally large weeds, perennial from a rhizome, preferring damp locations
They are grown for their rhizome (turmeric, ginger) or as decorative plants for their colorful flower spikes and large leaves (pink porcelain iris from Florence).
In traditional medicine it is used to treat many ailments:
* As “regulators” of female genital disorders: Antiabortifacient, emmenagogue (see glossary), regulator of menstruation,
* As an anti-inflammatory, antipyretic (see glossary), antirheumatic,
* In the broncho-pulmonary diseases: asthma, cough suppressants and expectorants (see glossary)
* Finally, to treat various digestive disorders: antiemetic, antiulcer, antispasmodic and antidyspeptiques (see glossary).
The TURMERIC been important crop in India, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, China but also in the Caribbean and some Pacific islands. Vivace by its rhizome, turmeric has large sheathing leaves and a spike of yellow flowers with bracts tinged with pink or purple. We harvest the rhizome after withering of the aerial parts, it is dried, stripped of its roots and scaly skin. The fracture shows the inside yellow to red-orange smell aromatic
Soy and Estrogen
In addition to the recognized disadvantages of all milk and milk products, seem to be blacklisted by the latest scientific discoveries, demonstrating that adopting a diet based on cow’s milk is probably due to a real trauma organic in the baby, followed by a period of pathological disorders more or less important, and finally, an apparent adaptation cache, in fact, many functional imbalances that persist throughout life.
In adolescents and adults, of course the damage is not so dramatic, but nevertheless still exists in the form of demineralization, inflammation or tissue fouling can lead to hardening of simple … or certain cancers!
Specifically, research conducted in various countries over-consumers of dairy products, such as Switzerland, France or the United States, compared to underdeveloped countries, consumers have actually found higher rates of cancer.
INDIGESTION
Cow’s milk in the rough among this number of disadvantages known and long acknowledged its undeniable lack of digestibility. In fact, the adult human stomach does not contain rennet in the stomach of the calf, can curdle milk, we must make the lactase in large quantities for it to be digested. While this is not the case, the digestion process remains blocked and the other early fermentation and putrefaction are triggered.
That is why we often prefer to turn milk into yogurt or cheese forms predigested. But the enormous amount of animal fat content in most cheeses make them indigestible enough to all those with hepato-biliary system is not at his best! This disadvantage even if it is shared with fatty meats and sausages, is no less real: the bread mixture and cheese fat is tricky.
Moreover, when milk or milk product does not come from organic farming, they are proving to be more toxic because all pesticides, insecticides, and antibiotics are concentrated in the fat cells produced by the cow. So that whole milk and cheese contain non-organic fatty proportions far greater pollutants than any chemically treated plants ..
Finally, milk and dairy products are among the most allergenic foods and digestive problems posed by these intolerances are also many insidious.
The beneficial properties of caffeine
What do you think when you hear the word “coffee”? A color? A drink? Something warm? Also probably comes to your mind the word “caffeine”, right? Caffeine is one of the most important and well-known coffee-flavor, color and aroma.
This substance is very important when it comes to one of the most widely consumed beverages in the world. And is that caffeine is the element that gives coffee its most beneficial properties to Read the rest of this entry »
Antioxidants can not forget in your diet if you make physical activity
Antioxidants are chemical substances and compounds that can be found among the vitamins, minerals or enzymes, which neutralize the damaging effect of so-called “free radicals”.
All generate free radicals in the body as a result of each of the metabolic processes that occur there, but there are activities, circumstances, or certain body compositions that due to their internal processes increase their production.
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Antioxidants need to be taken before sports
We know that making hard sport free radicals attack our body and rust, that’s why we take antioxidants found in foods and prevent premature cell aging. We do not know is when to take them.
It seems that the best time to take antioxidants is prior to intense activity or sport: competition, training and antioxidants cane … have proved to be most effective, neutralizing the harmful effects of free radicals.
Let’s take a brief survey of the main antioxidant-rich foods: tomatoes, cacao, nuts, berries and fruits and vegetables in general. The most comfortable for the athletes is to take as a smoothie or juice one hour before the activity and also step moisturize.