The analysis of 25 studies involving 600 people showed, consume 67 grams of nuts (equivalent to a small bag) every day can reduce cholesterol levels up to 7.4 percent. However, experts do not recommend the consumption of peanuts mixed with sugar or salt.

Not only cholesterol, apparently nuts are also useful for reducing triglycerides, blood fats, are associated with heart disease. Benefits of nuts is more pronounced in those classified as obese body weight.

Aside from being a source of fiber and a good vegetable protein, researchers can not explain how the mechanism of the cholesterol-lowering nut. One theory states, the content of phytosterol which is naturally present in nuts will prevent the absorption of cholesterol by the body.

Nuts are a food that is cheap and accessible. Buncing, red beans, peas, or soybeans, when processed into various types of food. In addition to make vegetable, beans are also delicious when eaten by boiling. So, there’s no reason to exclude this food in our daily menu.

Zinc also encourage our immune system. When we had the flu, the researchers believed that cough medicines containing zinc can help stop the virus replication by half. In other studies also showed that zinc has been used to overcome the injury, prevent diarrhea, and slow macular degeneration (a condition causing vision problems).

This mineral is so important, even we need a daily intake of certain amount. But because our bodies can not produce these minerals in nature, we need to consume lots of foods that contain zinc, like oysters, crab, tenderloin, shrimp (steamed or boiled), mushrooms, or spinach.

To get more intake of zinc, following which you can do:
1. Limit your intake of alcohol and coffee. Both types of drinks will increase our desire to urinate. The more often you urinate, the more we remove the zinc.

2. Do not cook too well. Food wich steamed, baked, or boiled too long, will reduce the zinc content by half. Nuts were among the most easily affected.

3. Eat unprocessed foods. Content of zinc in wheat will be lost up to 75 percent when processed. As far as possible avoid too white bread.

4. Add milk formula with zinc for infants. If you are still able to breastfeed the child until the age of six months, you can try adding milk formula with zinc content with your breast milk.

5. Eat lean meat. If you’re not a vegetarian, the best way to get a daily intake of zinc is to eat meat. Fish can be a good source of zinc.

6. Nuts. If you do not like to eat meat, add beans to salads or other menus to boost the amount of zinc. Once again, do not cook it too long so sengnya insoluble content.

Dr. Kristen Bibbins-Domingo, researcher from the University of California, San Francisco, United States, recently published his research results on the incidence of heart disease with softdrink consumption.

She said the increasing consumption of soft drinks are generally high in sugar, have an impact on the 130,000 new cases of diabetes, 14,000 new cases of heart disease, and 50,000 people with heart problems in the last decade.

“From the results of this study can be concluded, all policies that could reduce the softdrink consumption may be positive impact on public health,” said Dr. Kristen Bibbins-Domingo .

By using computer simulation, heart disease associated with a variety of factors, such as obesity and consumption of food containing salt. “So far, we underestimated the incidence of heart disease softdrink because it is more popular drinks on teenagers. The focus of research this disease more adults over the age of 35 years,” said Domingo.

She added, the link between the incidence of cardiovascular disease and diabetes is very real. However, the increasing obesity factors may also be influential.

“Various studies show the impact of consumption of sugary drinks. For decades an increase in consumption of sweet drinks,” she said.

The experts warn, to prevent diabetes, we must reduce the intake of beverages with added sugar. If diabetes is diagnosed with blood sugar, weight, blood pressure and blood fat levels must be controlled. If a sport is not controlled, should be done with drugs.

Nam Dang is a researcher from the University of Florida and colleagues from Japan who has published his findings about the benefits of papaya leaf extract to fight cervical cancer, breast, liver, lung, and pancreas. The researchers used the papaya leaf extract was dried and used as papaya leaf tea.

In research conducted known Dang, papaya leaf extract will produce molecules called TH1 type of cytokines that help improve the body’s immune system. This will support the therapeutic use of the immune system to fight cancer.

Experts say, papaya extract has no toxic effect on normal cells and thus more secure than cancer therapy in general. In his research, 10 types of cancer cell culture and mixed with papaya leaf extract and then observed for 24 hours. Proved, papayas slow the growth of tumor cells in all types of cancer.

Besides consumed as fruit, papaya is also used as traditional medicine, especially by the Aborigines in Australia, the population of Vietnam, and several other Asian countries.

However, in contrast with garlic, sulfur components in onions is in the form of allyl propyl disulphide. These components play an important role in lowering blood glucose, so good for diabetics.

Onions are also good for preventing heart attacks and strokes. Components of sulfur in the onion will synergize with chromium and vitamin B6 to reduce homocysteine levels in the blood.Onions also have anti-inflammatory properties.

Components of isothiocyanates (also found in broccoli) has been reported to inhibit cancer cells.Components are derived from compounds glukosinolates after changing onion bitten, chewed and digested. Onions also contain flavonoids components very good for preventing colon cancer.

The experts at the University of Bendi Switzerland has examined the benefits of bone onions.Provençal onion consumption every day for 4 weeks can increase bone strengthening calcium concentrations up to 17 percent

Sports and injuries go hand-in-hand with each other. Because all sports entail physical exertion, it’s almost inevitable that a sports player will be injured. Any professional player will agree that when injured, ignoring the pain and continuing to engage in the sport is never the right thing to do. Here’s why you should never try to play through and injury.

An injury can be anywhere from mild to severe, and even life-threatening in the extreme cases. Because there are some instances in which the extent of the injury isn’t immediately apparent, it’s important that when you’re injured you stop playing until you are certain of the nature and degree of the injury.

The most common injury is one form or another of a strain or a sprain. What’s the difference between a sprain and a strain? The only real difference is that a sprain involves the tough, fibrous tissues called ligaments, and a strain involved a muscle or a tendon (The tissue that connects muscles to bone). In either case, the tissue is stretched, sometimes to the point of tearing. Because the knee and the ankle absorb much of the impact and also bear a considerable amount of the body’s weight, they are very popular for this type of injury.

When this type of injury occurs, it’s important to not ignore or play through the pain. Doing so could aggravate the injury and cause it to become more severe than it initially is. As such, you could not only be out of play for a longer period of time, you could also do a greater amount of damage which may not allow you to ever play sports again. This can be said of all types of sports injuries.

There’s an old myth still circulating out there that if a person suffers a concussion they will do one or two things. They may lose consciousness or become disoriented and confused. The reality is that a person can suffer a concussion and show neither of these to signs. This is a type of injury that needs to be examined to evaluate the degree of the injury. Continuing to play a contact sport while suffering from a concussion could aggravate the injury to the point of unconsciousness or, sadly, death.

Team dedication is admirable, and in the passion of the moment it may seem that being loyal to your team is the appropriate thing to do. However, playing through an injury is never a wise choice.

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Angiogenesis Foundation Chairman, William Li expressed the red wine and dark chocolate blended with blueberries, garlic, soy and tea can be used as materials for making cancer cells that made no famine has undermined the ability of the body.

“We’ve created a level of food based on the quality of these foods to fight cancer. What we consume every day could be chemotherapy for ourselves,” Li said, as quoted by AFP on Thursday (11/2/2010).

Scientists identify chemical ingredients contained in food. These chemicals have the function to stop the flow of blood supply to the tumor tissue so that cancer cells will be starved which will die.

Li cited a study at Harvard Medical School that showed a man with the consumption of cooked tomatoes a few times a week can reduce the likelihood of prostate cancer as much as 30-50 times.

“There’s a medical revolution that is happening around us. If this is true, it will have an impact on consumer education, food service, public health and insurance institutions,” he added.

Eating a variety of these foods together to make the fight against cancer properties become more effective and powerful. For some people around the world that can not afford cancer drugs, the possibility can make the treatment of cancer through diet as the only best solution to fight the cancer cells in her body.

Currently about a dozen drugs have been used to stop the blood supply to tumors by using the tactics of treatment called anti-angiogenesis “. But almost certainly that the treatment for cancer is not a cheap treatment

Various studies had demonstrated the ability of garlic in preventing and treating cancers, especially those caused by chemical substances harmless, such as prostate cancer, stomach cancer, colorectal (colon and rectum), breast cancer, liver, skin cancer, and lungs cancer.

Garlic Against Cancer
Active substances in garlic include vitamins A, B, C, calcium, potassium, iron, carotene, and selenium. The most dominant in the fight against cancer is allyl sulfur components such as diallyl sulfide, diallyl disulfide, diallyl trisulfide, S-allyl cysteine, S-allylmercaptocysteine, allicin, and ajoene. These substances prevent the formation and activation of nitrosamines in the body, also blocked aflatoxin, azoxymethane, benzo (a) pyrene, etc., all of which are carcinogenic substances (cancer  triggers).

In the next stage of these components may prevent mutation of the gene, inhibiting the proliferation (growth / division) of cancer cells, repair of damaged DNA structures, and even stimulate cancer cells to commit suicide (apoptosis).

On the other side of garlic also acts as an antioxidant, remove toxins from the body, and kill the bacteria Helicobacter pylori that can trigger a variety of stomach cancer.
How to Eat

Of course working active substances garlic depends on many things, such as the land where it grows garlic (effect on the levels of active substances garlic), the composition of other nutrients consumed together with him, also how to prepare and consume onions white itself. Combination with selenium, certain fatty acids (eg linoleic acid), and vitamin A, can increase the ability of garlic to inhibit proliferation and increase apoptosis.

But be aware that garlic processing power can be deadly work anticancer substances that. One minute it is processed in the microwave, garlic loses efficacy as anticancer. So even when heated in another cooking process. So what? Should garlic swallowed it raw?

Apparently simple. Mash garlic (thinly sliced) and let stand for 15 minutes before cooking (used as a spice in cooking). Within 15 minutes of it happening chemical reactions that activate anticancer substances allyl groups on the sulfur, which is not damaged even if cooked. But if destroyed immediately after cooking, the chemical reaction that did not happen, automatic properties antikankernya missing.

If you want, garlic can also be consumed raw. But still had to be destroyed once and left for 15 minutes. So what if garlic would be served whole, such as in pickles? Simply peel and cut some corners. Not bad, still have anticancer properties, though not as good as if crushed.
Hazards Potential

Not so easy, using the garlic for the prevention and treatment of cancer? The price is cheap and easily available too. Be warned, however, does not mean that garlic may be consumed at random. Do not think that more and more consumption of garlic, the better the result.

The recommended dose of garlic consumption is 4-5 grams of fresh garlic / day (about 1-2 cloves). If too much, besides causing odor on the breath and skin, sometimes causing allergies, digestive disorders (vomiting, diarrhea, irritability, excessive gas production), bronchial asthma, dermatitis, reduces levels of protein and calcium in the blood, also reducing the production of sperm.

Too much garlic increases the risk of bleeding because of its ability to prevent blood clotting. Therefore, in patients who want or have recently undergone surgery, garlic consumption should be limited.

Garlic also increases enzymes work in the liver to remove toxins from the body. In healthy people this ability is very useful, but be careful, he can also throw the drugs that you swallow and chemotherapy drugs. Your treatment to be futile, is not it? Therefore, if you want to increase the consumption of garlic supplements or use products, consult with your doctor first.

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In some people, symptoms of depression is only recognized as the emergence of moody nature. In fact, when examined depression always have signals arise though sometimes drowned. There’s a good idea to recognize the signs when the stress was entered in the appropriate zone aware.

First, psychological symptoms such as irritability, feeling himself unworthy, pessimistic.Depressed people also often experience physical symptoms of headache, fatigue, loss of appetite or excessive, nausea, stomach complaints, diarrhea.

Meanwhile behavioral symptoms to watch is losing interest, moody, difficult to concentrate.restless, easily distracted, feel helpless, and began to pull away from their daily activities.

Antioxidants are compounds that can prevent or inhibit the oxidation processes that are harmful to the body because the cells triggers free radicals. Cells of free radicals and is uncontrolled causing specific diseases, usually cancer.

Because it can prevent and fight disease, antioxidants are claimed to extend life. Not only that, antioxidants are believed to increase sexual performance and many other benefits.

But now researchers from Kansas State University, United States proved that antioxidants in high doses can be a problem for the body.

Antioxidants only works when there is a pro-oxidant compounds (trigger the oxidation process) in the body. When the dose of antioxidants and pro-oxidant imbalance or high antioxidant levels of pro-oxidants while low, the body will form a pro-oxidant compounds to balance with antioxidant levels, and this will make cells free radicals are not beyond repair.

“Many people believe that by eating lots of antioxidants, the benefits to the body also will be many more. But it was wrong, very high doses of antioxidants to produce the opposite function, namely causing weakened muscles, shortness of breath, the oxygen in the blood flow blocked even accelerated aging, “said the researcher, as reported by Steven Copp Dailymail, Saturday (30/1/2010).

It should be noticed for more consumption of broccoli, carrots, tomatoes, blueberries, soy and other foods that contain antioxidants that are not excessive.