Benefits of Bananas
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Banana is a fruit that is easy to find in Indonesia. In addition, the price is also relatively inexpensive compared to other fruits. However, you may not suspect that the simple banana fruit has a myriad of benefits, ranging from cardiovascular protection, maintain eye health, bone repair, and prevent kidney cancer.
Cardiovascular Protection
Bananas are one of the best sources for potassium, which is an essential mineral that maintaining normal blood pressure and heart function. On average, consisting of 467 mg of potassium banana and 1 mg sodium, can help prevent high blood pressure and atherosclerosis.
Good Afternoon Sleep To Heart
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As a child, parents often tell us to take a nap, but then we were enjoying playing with friends. Quite often, we are often annoyed and wondering, why should nap?
Advice turned out for a nap is good for heart health. The person making the Mediterranean region as a tradition of siesta. This tradition is proven to reduce the risk of death from heart disease.
People who nap at risk of dying from heart disease 34 percent lower. If the frequency nap more then the risk of death would be lower, especially for male workers.
Apart from a nap, eat plenty of vegetables in a high number is good for your heart.
Benefit Strawberries
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Fruit is a trend to be made into juice today, so many benefits for your health.
With beautiful shapes and colors are red, the fruit that comes from North America contains high levels of vitamin C. Red color due to the strawberry fruit is rich in color pigment anthocyanin, and contains high antioxidants. For health we can eat this fruit is in a state that is still fresh.
Nutrient content and nutrients in strawberries:
- Contain carbohydrates, vit. A and C
- Ellagic acid
- Rich pottasium
- High in iron
- Contains calcium and phosphorus
- Containing boron
B Various properties of strawberries:
- A and C in strawberries is important to maintain immunity, Vit. C useful for growing children.
- Elagic acid in this fruit may help knock out the active labor cancer
- Calcium Content and Phosfor for maintaining strong bones and teeth, as well as
– Helpful whiten teeth. Reduce the risk of brittle bones
- Helps restore normal kidney function. Pottasium strawberries good for healing in the kidney.
– Strawberries able to shrink the cholesterol content
– Leaves of strawberry is also nutritious because it has astringent substance.
Three to four cups of water to the stew strawberry leaves per day, can effectively stop the attacks of diarrhea.
- Strawberry juice is useful for cooling, reducing fever.
– Strawberries can prevent the symptoms of stroke
Fit With Vitamin C
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Many people only know that vitamin C is only useful for healing canker sores alone. Vitamin C possessed far more function not only just healing sores.
Vitamin C is necessary to maintain the structure of collagen, a protein, which connects all fiber network, skin, tendons, cartilage, and other tissues of human body.
Beware of Caffeine Poisoning
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Caffeine had a substance that causes many benefits such as pressing sleepiness, reduce boredom, increase the spirit at work, and increase alertness. Thus, both caffeine consumption.
However, caffeine functions are often misused. Even consumed in excess. Though caffeine is a chemical that has powerful effects in some systems of the body, so it needs special attention. Thus, consumption of caffeinated beverages is a good idea should be limited.
Caffeine is a type of alkaloid that is naturally present in coffee beans, tea leaves, and some beverages.
Caffeine works on the central nervous system, muscle (including cardiac muscle), and kidney. Effect on central nervous system, especially in centers higher yield increased mental activity, and stay awake or wake up.
Caffeine to improve performance and results of work of muscles, stimulate the respiratory center, increasing the speed and depth of breathing. Caffeine can also cause a mild addictive.
Impact of Caffeine Bad
Despite of several studies found that caffeine has a good function for the body, but in fact this substance can also cause negative impacts to the body.
Moreover, the workings of one mind is caffeine triggers a chemical response to stress bodies. Caffeine makes certain parts of the brain becomes very active, and even making it overactive, while other parts of the brain that become no active.
If you want a maximum of 100 mg per day, could have benefited. But if more than 300 mg per day, could be poisoned. So one cup contains 100 mg of caffeine.
In the body, caffeine is absorbed by the stomach, metabolized in the liver, and disposed of the body for 20-10 hours. Generally, smokers have a faster metabolism of caffeine than those who were nonsmokers.
While in pregnant women, the metabolism of caffeine last longer. That’s why pregnant women are advised to avoid caffeine for longer. That’s why pregnant women are advised to avoid the caffeine because it will cause baby to be disabled.
Likewise with the consumption of other energy drinks. People may be attracted to his name and taking it to generate power. But should note that unlike energy drinks beverages energy sources.
Caffeine can cause a mild addictive. People who drink coffee will have a headache in the morning, or after approximately 12-16 hours from the last time coffee drinkers.
For people who drank coffee daily more than five cups, the risk of addiction increased 60-120% compared with people who do not drink coffee.
Caffeine poisoning symptoms. Caffeine can trigger addictive. Excessive consumption or because the condition of the body that is sensitive to caffeine can lead to poisoning.
If you experience headaches, muscle tension, can not sleep, and panic after a cup of coffee, it means that your caffeine poisoning. Symptoms can occur 12-24 hours after consuming caffeine, even up to 48 hours.
People affected by heart disease has the effect of heavier again, that could make quick rhythmic heart. And that could be dangerous. Effect that appears depends on each person’s condition.
Conditions like this usually do not last long. Because once the caffeine out toxins from the body through metabolism, body condition will get better by itself.
Therefore, if you experience symptoms such as those mentioned above, how good you consume lots of water in order to expedite the process of metabolism.
Caffeine is actually quickly removed by drinking water that much and will be issued through the urinary tract.
Good solution, namely to reduce caffeine intake. Not only reduce consumption of coffee, but also chocolate, tea, soda and even some medications that contain caffeine and can cause you to fatigue without you realize the cause.
End Stage After Achieving Ideal Body Weight
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Some people have managed to achieve ideal weight. But to get into shape, everyone should be doing long struggle, many months trying to lose weight by strict dieting, exercise and a half to death. After successfully achieve ideal body weight, what to do now?
There are two things that must be considered when we were already at your ideal weight. First, measure the fat content, if it’s ideal or not. Outlined the ideal range for men is 10 up to 15 per cent, while for women 15 to 20 cent.
If the fat content is outside the ideal range, means we must try (harder) to reduce levels of fat, add muscle mass so that we remain an ideal weight.
Denny also explain, if we have an ideal body shape, and the fat is in the range ideal, then the body will go into maintenance phases. Namely the phase in which we exercise no longer to find the ideal weight goals, but to maintain their weight ideal.
The question now, what type of exercise are most appropriate for maintaining ideal body weight?
Exercise is recommended to maintain cardiovascular health, a minimum of 30 minutes each day. Able to run, swim, whatever. What is important for cardiovascular health or take our heart. Weight training at least two times a week. Weight training is recommended for everyone because with increasing age. Body muscle mass decreases. Weight training two times a week will help us preserve muscle mass. With so we do not lose power and even doddering age increases.
While stretching or stretching is also needed at least 30 minutes a week.
Gwyneth Paltrow Macrobiotic Diet
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To obtain the form of a slim and perfect body, the diet has always been starting the measuring. This mode also conducted the Hollywood celebrity, like the famous actress Gwyneth Paltrow. However, if one applies the diet, not a sexy body to get, you can actually suffer from another disease.
The desire to have stable body weight by running on a strict diet patterns. 37-year-old star was diagnosed the doctor had osteopenia.
Star of “Iron Man” was revealed to the public that she was suffering from brittle bone disease that usually first experienced by seniors (elderly people). The wife of Coldplay frontman Chris Martin’s band was calling itself in the early stages of osteopenia.
Brittle bone disease was detected after a few years ago he was known to have cracks in one part of the leg bone of the most widely accepted because of pressure to hold weight.
In its website, Gwyneth had time to write, according to physician examination results, levels of vitamin D in the body is the lowest ever seen.
With this condition, the doctors moved quickly prescribe high doses of vitamin D, and advocate for frequent Gwyneth bask in the sun.
Because insisted want to get back healthy as before, since that time he also changed his diet to more healthy patterns. Finally, star of “Shakespeare In Love” This Macrobiotic diet.
This strict diet only allows a person to consume lots of fruit, wheat, and vegetables and some fish. He also claim to avoid the consumption of red meat, milk and other processed product.
Osteopenia is a yellow light or a warning so you can lead a healthy lifestyle. When you have a habit of smoking, immediately stop the habit. Make sure you take the time to exercise, get calcium and vitamin D intake is adequate and stay away from alcohol and caffeine.
Daily calcium requirement for adults is 1000 mg to 1200 mg. Along with the development of times, it is not easy to meet calcium needs enough. While osteoporosis itself can be caused by deficiencies of calcium and physical exercises that are too much.
Healthy Heart, Choose Margarine instead of butter
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You are still confused by the difference of butter and margarine? Investigate the characteristics of each body will save you from the heaps of bad cholesterol.
Margarine fat content less than butter, margarine, so for the dieter is more frequently used. There is also a low-calorie margarine that contains far less fat.
Margarine contains at least 80 percent of the total weight of fat, about 17-18 per cent consisted of skim milk derivatives, water, or liquid soy proteins, and the remainder (approximately 1-3 percent) is added as a flavor of salt, though some margarine products are not put salt on labels for health reasons.
Margarine different from butter. Butter comes from animal fats, while margarine from plant fat. Usually, butter fat contains more saturated fats or saturated (for 66 percent) than fat or unsaturated fats unsaturated (34 percent). For some people, shunned because of saturated fats affect high cholesterol in the body.
Margarine healthier. Studies involving more than 70 000 people are clearly showing the benefits of margarine products to lower cholesterol than butter.
Many population studies in the diets of thousands of people also showed that consumption of margarine gives better results than the consumption of butter. To improve the quality of health, you should limit saturated fat and cholesterol intake by choosing foods such as margarine.
Besides watching the womb, between butter and margarine also need a different treatment in terms of storage. Usually, margarine should be stored in the refrigerator. If only stored at room temperature, easily melted margarine because of base ingredients are just cream and salt.
Trans fats are often found in pure butter because butter comes from animal products, while margarine from a variety of oils, like canola oil, olive oil, and so forth. The problem is the way storage. At room temperature, margarine tends to be rather thin.
New Benefit A cup of coffee
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Many people avoid drinking coffee because it is dangerous for the health of the body. Whereas in a cup of coffee there are also other benefits that many people do not know.
After Kiva Han, the first coffee shop opened in Turkey in 1445, is now a similar shop grow like mushrooms in the rainy season. Every mall, businesses, and even educational institutes in the country to find the cafes that serve the coffee. This phenomenon is not confined to Indonesia but the world! Imagine a day in humans on this planet to spend 1.5 billion cups of coffee each day.
Most people think coffee is a drink that could bring disaster in the days ahead. Can cause high blood pressure, heart, stomach ulcers, and even drink coffee myth will make intelligence capabilities down.
However, some recent research found that coffee, there were also benefited.
In a cup of coffee, there is a chemical compound called caffeine. These substances that cause heart pounding faster, excessive anxiety, and shaking hands. Depending on the sensitivity of each person. Some new drink some already feel it, there’s a new drinking glasses bergelas feel it.
Sonia adds, some studies conducted by researchers from the United States has found that coffee can prevent Alzeimer disease, Parkinson’s, liver cirrhosis, gallstones, and serves to defuse the time headaches. Coffee contains tannin and antioxidants, which is quite good for the heart and blood vessels. Drinking coffee also may reduce the symptoms of Parkinson’s disease (which usually occurs in the age after 50 years, symptoms are muscle stiffness, trembling hands and legs, the movement is so slow / can not be fast, some experience symptoms of imbalance and disorder of communication such as writing, speech and expression face), and protect the nerve cells.
Antioxidants found in coffee that protects our body from free radical attack. Antioxidants in coffee behave the same as those found in tea and red wine. This substance will minimize, or even prevent damage to the molecules in the cells of the human body.
Choose the decaf coffee, because it tastes good and antioxidant levels are also quite a lot, almost the same as regular coffee. In addition, avoid coffee also in pregnant women, persons suffering from heart disease, and people who have the disorder or gastric ulcer.
Prevent Diabetes With Milk
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This conclusion was drawn from 10 years to a study of 3000 respondents. They were then divided into two groups. First is the group who consumed various types of dairy products and the second group did not consume dairy at all. The result, the first group to have insulin resistance 70 percent lower.
What is insulin resistance? Insulin resistance is a condition in which decreased insulin sensitivity and makes our blood sugar levels are not balanced or excess blood sugar. Generally the obese or overweight, characterized by increased insulin resistance.
Protein in milk will help keep your immune. While the fat content will also make us feel satisfied. Enjoy also the other nutrients from dairy products is also useful, such as calcium, magnesium, and potassium.
Let prevent diabetes by:
One. Consuming two servings of low-fat milk every day. Each portion will deduct the excess insuli resistance up to 20%.
2. Do exchange. Choose dairy products, rather than high carb snacks and low in fiber, such as soft drinks, candy, or fast food.
3. Accompany the milk with fruit, vegetables and whole wheat. We can add fresh fruit pieces in yogurt for breakfast. Or low-fat cheese melt on top of whole wheat bread.
