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How much you know about nutrition? (II)

Saturday, January 30th, 2010

fiber

1. The fiber tapers
No. We relate take fiber to lose weight, but in reality the fiber or fat or thin. Fiber is the part of food that is neither digested nor absorbed by our bodies because we lack the enzymes that would be required to do so. So do not add calories but not the rest. However, it has wonderful properties it acts as a regulator of intestinal function, prevents constipation, regenerates the intestinal flora and produces satiety thereby decreasing hunger.

2. Margarine is less fattening than butter
No. Both are considered within what are called solid fats. The difference lies in their origin and way different from how you get both. Butter milk is obtained by mixing the batter and cream.

The margarine fats obtained from animals, plants or both which are subjected to a chemical process called hydrogenation, which converts liquid fats into solid fats. It has the advantage that they can produce margarine, unsaturated vegetable oils, but the disadvantage that in the process of hydrogenation changes the chemical configuration of the fat, creating trans fatty acids are unsaturated fats that behave in our bodies as if they were saturated.

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How much you know about nutrition? (I)

Friday, January 29th, 2010

about nutrition

There are many false beliefs about nutrition that are accepted as true by most people. Assertions are without foundation and may even interfere with proper nutrition. How much you know about nutrition?

1. The alcohol removes the cold
The Saint Bernard dog who comes swift with his barrel of rum to assist the skier is an image that all we keep in our memory. It should give joy to see your face approach with good-natured but today we know that it is best not to test the alcohol that carries his keg.

Alcohol is a vasodilator. It makes the skin capillaries dilate so that more blood reaches them. This produces a momentary sensation of heat to the cold comfort but in reality it is producing a heat loss, since the blood to be so close to the body surface cools faster.

This causes a decrease in body temperature that can cause death by freezing. Not infrequently, there have been cases of people drunk bastards who have died from cold.

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The relationship between longevity and nutrition

Thursday, January 28th, 2010

nutritions

The secret of healthy aging could be a proper.

According to new research with fruit flies, a diet with adequate protein mixture could be one of the keys to enjoying a healthy and long life.

Scientists have discovered that manipulating the amount of a unit of protein ingested by fruit flies can extend your life expectancy, without producing side effects in other physiological functions, such as fertility.

Although the effect has not yet been identified in mammals – for example, in mice – promises to shed light on the biological pathways involved in human aging. The hope is that, over time, may be possible to manipulate these pathways with drugs, in order to make people live longer.

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Healthy Lifestyle

Thursday, January 14th, 2010

Healthy Living is the Norm
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With penetrating research on the reduction of disease risk is advertised for more discipline in the conduct of life.

Who wants to live long and healthy, should have no excesses. The many scientific studies that we want to hammer home the healthy lifestyle that has now been re-added one new from the German Institute for Nutrition Research/Deutschen Institut für Ernährungsforschung (DIFE), which promises long-term austerity for some great successes.

Those who smoke and / or is thick, has the power elite and its self-inflicted, look for a lack of discipline, disclosing defects has long any more. Back to the lifestyle of the winners is also to be physically active, and no big mountains of meat, but eat plenty of fruits, vegetables and whole grain bread. It is cultivated and has a clearly recognizable by all lean, muscular and powerful body. (more…)

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Tips to live longer

Monday, January 11th, 2010

healthy life

Food. A 1,500-calorie diet is beneficial to health and age more slowly helps. Moderation in food and fewer calories than recommended promotes a longer life. Our diet should include fruits and vegetables antioxidant foods with bright colors and grains. Fish preferable to meat consumption. A glass of red wine with meals is also highly recommended.

Physical activity. Physical exercise according to age: walking, climbing stairs, win, do simple exercises, golf, yoga practice commensurate with age and so on. contribute to improving the sense of wellbeing and almost all health indicators, especially those related to the cardiorespiratory system.

Laugh and think optimistically. It is essential to the mind on positive thoughts. The mind has a role in the functioning of the human body.

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