Showing posts with label nutrition and metabolism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label nutrition and metabolism. Show all posts

Thursday, March 15, 2012

Does your body's lack of fiber ?

Fiber in the diet is known to have significant benefits for the human body. In fact, the benefits of fiber consumption in the health field has been known since 1970. Dietary fiber is actually the material that make up plant cell walls are usually found in plants.
Many cases which prove that people who frequently consume fiber rarely get sick. 
Fibrous foods in the process will be absorbed by the digestive tract. There are two kinds of fibers are commonly known in the medical world that is water-soluble fiber and insoluble fiber in water.
Well, if you less intake of vegetables, and grains, then you should be careful because of lack of dietary fiber can cause potential heart disease, cancer, and so forth. 
There are four main signs to consider when you are short fibers.

Saturday, March 10, 2012

Danger of dysentery in Toddlers

When the little one looks weak with alternating bowel movements accompanied by high body temperature and pain to remove dirt and feces each dibarengin blood and mucus, if yes then this is a symptom of dysentery. According dr.Hadjat S. blood and mucus is the main symptom of dysentery.
Dysentery syndrome can be caused by all the microbes, bacteria or parasites. 
It could also be due to lactose intolerance.Dysentery syndrome is generally caused by the shigella bacteria and parasite Entamoeba histolityca, though the germs cause infections that are different but both indicate the presence of faecal
bloody and slimy. 
Dysentery syndrome is one type of acute diarrhea.

Dysentery syndrome can be transmitted through various means and media, this syndrome experienced by many days of a toddler, but rarely hit a child under one year of age because at this age are very strict parental supervision.

Monday, January 10, 2011

Symptoms of Hemorrhoids

Definition :
Hemorrhoids (hemorrhoids) is swelling of the tissue containing veins (veins) and is located in the wall of the rectum and anus. The anus is a hole at the end of the digestive tract where waste (feces, dirt) out of the body. The rectum is part of the gastrointestinal tract above the anus, where stool is stored before it is excreted through the anus. Hemorrhoids may become inflamed, causing blood clots (thrombus), bleeding or will enlarge and bulge out. Hemorrhoids that remain in the rectum are called internal hemorrhoids (hemorrhoids) and hemorrhoid is out of the anus are called external hemorrhoids (external hemorrhoids).
Cause :
Hemorrhoids can occur due to repeated stretching during bowel movements and constipation (difficulty in bowel movements, constipation) can make peregangannya worse. Liver disease causes an increase in blood pressure in the portal vein and sometimes causes the formation of hemorrhoids.

Monday, December 20, 2010

Fat-Burning Foods

The most effective way to speed up metabolism, the process by which the body burns calories, is to lose weight or build more muscle. However, you can also do it routinely mengasup the following foods:

Cereal and whole oat
Complex carbohydrates and fiber increases your metabolism by keeping insulin levels remain low after we eat. This can be useful for the production of insulin will send a signal to the body to store fat.And when the body stores fat reserves, so a slower metabolism so you burn fewer calories.

Calcium Milk
Although it contains fat, but milk will trigger sebenarnyaKalsium in metabolism. The research team from the University of Tennessee


Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Benefits of Green Tea for Health

Green tea is a type of tea made from leaves of Camelia sinensis only, which suffered minimal oxidation during the manufacturing process. Green tea comes from China, and is associated with Eastern cultures.

Green tea is served with green tea leaves soaking in hot water in the cup. Depending on the quality of tea, the better the quality the less time it takes to soak. Usually the time required to soak the green tea is 30 seconds to 3 minutes, with water temperatures between 61-87 ° C. When the water is too hot or too long soak, then the resulting tea will taste bitter.

Green tea contains caffeine. The caffeine content will be reduced proportional to the length of time of immersion and temperature of water used. In addition, green tea also contains theophylline and theobromine.

Drinking green tea has long been associated with various health benefits.

Sunday, December 12, 2010

Tips for slimming our body

There are many ways to lose weight, ranging from the various methods of diet, exercise, liposuction surgery, acupuncture, slimming medicine to drink. Which is safe and effective?
Referring to the World Health Organization, WHO, noted that a good weight loss can not be done instantly, but it is a long-term therapy.Needed to reduce the weight not only reduces the size of the meal, but also needed the guidance of a nutritionist before making dietary changes, along with physical activity and behavioral therapy.
To find out how slimming where a healthy, safe, and effective, please read the following descriptions to complete.


Liposuction  
How To remove the fat that is now the trend is liposuction surgery and tummy-tuck. This operation was chosen because the weight can be decreased drastically without the need to tired to exercise and diet, it is proved by the testimony of a famous artist. But why do so even if the fat is removed, the body is too stretched?
Basically, liposuction is surgery to remove fat under the skin, and made to achieve harmony of body, not to lose weight. While tummy-tuck is the removal of excess fatty tissue and overlying skin to form a more aesthetically pleasing body. Fat should not be reduced any more than 3-5 kg ​​once operations
According to nutrition specialist, dr.Johanes Chandrawinata, MND, SpGK, both types of operations are usually performed on patients who have a doctor's body sagged after the body weight lost. So, to lose weight first before surgery, rather than surgery to lose weight after 3 months because the body will be fat again.

Gastric binding & gastric by-pass
This action is selected if any slimming method did not work. Gastric binding is the installation tool "binding the stomach" which led to a smaller stomach pouch so that we will not eat too much because your body feel full faster. Through this act of weight loss can be reduced by 35-60 percent in 12 months.
Unlike the binding temporary gastric, gastric by-pass is permanent, the physician will make a 'road' connecting the base of the stomach with the small intestine so that food through the stomach but not directly into the small intestine. With gastric bypass, weight loss can be reduced to 80 percent. To perform these two types of action, patients should be aged over 35 years.

Acupuncture  
Until now akunpuntur method can not be scientifically proven to lose weight. Generally, the patients had stopped in the middle of the road because it did not get the ideal weight is expected.

Drugs and supplement 
Before you believe the lure of advertising, you should first carefully the content of drugs and supplements. Oversight bodies the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) even banned the consumption of supplements containing ephedrine akftif E.sinica or as a side effect of psychiatric symptoms, interfere with the digestive tract and makes the heart pounding.
Although states can reduce fat levels, not a slimming drug that is only capable of reducing the body weight of 1.2 kg for 6-14 weeks, equivalent to dietary calories by 1250/hari tranquility during the period of 0.5 weeks without any medication.

Popular diets  
Popular diets often referred to as "fad diets", a characteristic of other; promising rapid weight loss, can cure the disease, advocating the use of supplements, eating on time, limit or prohibit certain foods and only for the long view.
Which can be classified into fad diets such as low-carb diet, food combining, based on blood type diet, mayo clinic diet. Because of the prohibition to eat certain foods, usually the body's nutritional needs are not met due to lack of vitamins, iron, and fiber.
In terms of nutrition, all meals (breakfast, lunch and dinner) are encouraged to eat foods that vary in the amount of balance, because the body needs various nutrients as well.

Lose weight in a healthy  
Although no definite answer to the most appropriate diet to lose weight, but dr. John recommends a dietary pattern that carried out by the National Weight Control Registry (NWCR) in the U.S.. NWCR is a data set of people (there are 4000 people) who have lost weight over 13 kg and persisted for over 5 years.
Characteristic diet is low in fat (24 percent of calorie intake), intake of high carbohydrate, low calorie (1300-1500 kcal / day). Because we do not know how many calories are contained in food, dr.Johanes suggested to reduce the intake is smaller than normal portions.
"To reduce 500 calories a day is easy anyway, as if eating gado-gado, peanut sauce and reduce kerupuknya, prefer white rice instead of fried rice, and so on", the advice that doctors who practice in hospitals. St.Boromeus, Bandung.
Described by dr.Johanes, the majority of members enrolled in the NWCR to eat breakfast regularly, monitor their own weight and doing regular exercise. 

Saturday, December 11, 2010

Benefits of Chocolate for Our Health

The word chocolate comes from xocoatl (Aztec language) that means a bitter drink. The Aztecs and the Maya in Mexico believe that the god of Agriculture has sent a chocolate that comes from heaven to them. Cortes then took him to Spain between the years 1502-1528, and by the Spaniards bitter drink was mixed sugar so it tastes better. Brown then spread to France, Holland and England. In the year 1765 chocolate factory was established in Massachusetts, USA.
In the development of chocolate is not only a beverage but also become the preferred snack of children, adolescents, and adults. In addition to good taste, chocolate was efficacious make life a person becomes longer. An epidemiological study was conducted at Harvard University students enrolled between the years 1916-1950. By using a food frequency questionnaire collected information about the habits of eating candy or chocolate at Harvard University students.
By controlling the physical activity, smoking, and eating habits found that those who love to eat sweets / chocolates age older than one year are not eating. Allegedly phenol antioxidants contained in chocolate is the reason why they can outlive. Phenol is also found in red wine that is well known as the drink is good for heart health.Brown has the ability to inhibit oxidation of LDL cholesterol (bad cholesterol) and increase immune function, which can prevent the risk of coronary heart disease and cancer.
So far, there is the notion that chocolate causes of dental caries and may also be responsible for the problem of obesity. No doubt that obesity is a risk factor for degenerative diseases. But a study at Harvard University shows that if you balance the consumption of chocolate candy with enough physical activity and eating a balanced diet, then the negative effects of chocolate candy is not much to worry about.
According to the Mayan belief, chocolate is the food of the gods.The original flavor of the cocoa bean is actually due to the bitter alkaloid content, but after going through the engineering process can be produced chocolate as a food liked by anyone. Cocoa beans contain 31% fat, carbohydrate 14% and 9% protein.Chocolate is rich in protein amino acids tryptophan, phenylalanine, and tyrosine. 

Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Benefits of Drinking Milk to Lower Risk of Breast Cancer

Benefits of milk is no doubt. Almost all of the nutrients found in milk of good quality. Protein and milk fat has a high ketecernaan properties. Vitamin and mineral content of milk is also relatively complete.
Milk can be consumed in various forms. There are fresh or in processed form, such as milk powder or condensed milk. Humans also consume milk from food products containing milk, such as cheese, ice cream, and yogurt.
However, there are still differences of opinion about the consumption of this milk. No group has claimed that the consumption of milk every day is not good for health, especially vascular diseases such as constriction of blood vessels. The argument is, milk increases blood cholesterol levels are a risk factor for heart disease. Second, a positive relationship between average milk production per capita in deaths from heart disease in some countries.
Other groups supporting the role of milk at a reduced risk of various degenerative diseases such as heart disease, hypertension, and cancer.



Monday, December 6, 2010

Food allergies

Have experienced swelling redness, and itching after eating delicious food? Or even to feel the tightness? If so, chances are you have a food allergy. Although the number of events a little, but food allergies should also be considered because its effects may lead to fatality. Food allergy is an abnormal response to a food triggered by the immune system. Allergic reactions that occur can cause a serious incident.

Mechanisms of Food Allergy
Immunological reactions of the body affects the incidence of food allergies. This reaction involves the immune globulin, a protein that helps the body's immune response, rather Imonuglobulin E (IgE) that make up the body's immune response. Immune responses that appear in allergic reactions through two stages, namely the allergen sensitization phase and elicitation phase.

Sensitization phase
Sensitization stage occurs when the body produces specific IgE antibodies. Sensitization phase is also called the induction phase, a first contact with the allergen (ie when eating food allergens).

Elicitation Phase
Elicitation phase occurs when there is repeated exposure. When exposed to food (allergen) is the same, the protein will bind to molecules in the cell mediators (basophils and mast cells cells).This elicitation phase causes the body to secrete molecules that cause inflammation (such as leukotrienes and histamine). Effects that arise as well as the severity of the allergy is influenced by the concentration and type of allergen, route of exposure, and organ systems involved (eg, skin, gastrointestinal tract, respiratory tract, and blood).

Causes of Food Allergies
In adults, the foods most likely to cause an allergic reaction to foods that come from the sea, such as shrimp, lobster, crab. In addition to seafood, nuts also cause allergies in some people. Other foods that commonly cause allergic reactions, namely fish and eggs.