Prevent Stroke by Arrange The Food

Prevent Stroke by Arrange The Food - Prevent is better then cure [proverb]. If the disease still can do the prevention, we must effort for many ways. One of the ways is by arranging the eating pattern or food.

Stroke is caused by blockage at artery that aim to brain, it's have risk of disturbing of blood current. Or also stroke disease caused by embolism. stroke iskemik or blockage happen at 80% stroke case. While stroke hemoragic or embolish in brain is the cause of 20% of stroke.

The risk stroke factor include smoking, Hypertension, Heart disease, Diabetes, and high cholesterol. Lifestyle be a possible factor in attacked by stroke or not, even consume the food that usually low cholesterol.

Below are ways to lowering cholesterol risk from arrange the eating pattern. But, more interest if you wanna to consult to your doctors.

Step 1

Reduce the salt consumption for lowering the blood pressure, if you buy any food, dont forget for paying attention to see salt level in food.

Step 2

Reduce consume of calorie if you one of the overweight, Obesity is really near with diabetes and heart disease. Both of them are the heart risk factors, Best for you for eat whole grain, meat without fat, fruits, vegetables, healthy fat like olive oil.

Step3

Reduce eating food that contain saturate fat for controlling cholesterol. Avoid fat meat, fast food, milk product with high fatty

Step 4

Reduce consume the smooth sugar, it's useful to control blood sugar, limit the soda, cake, chewing gum, ice cream and others that can break the insulin in blood.

Carrots Makes Your Skin Look Beautiful

Carrots Makes Your Skin Look Beautiful - A new study says, someone who consume lots of vegetables of certain kinds, tend to have more attractive skin tones and healthy. Really?

Carrots contain yellow pigments called carotenoids. These substances play a key role to create beautiful skin, healthy and glowing.

As quoted by Times of India, Ian Stephen, scientists from St Andrews and Bristol U describes only two months of the consumption of vegetables and fruits were already visible results in skin.

Stephen hopes this finding could be a new strategy of encouraging young people to be more interested in eating vegetables and fruits. Regardless of the intention to beautify the skin, carrot consumption will also improve the quality of health in general.

Healthy and beautiful skin to be short-term benefits of increased consumption of vegetables and fruits. While the habit of eating vegetables and fruits in the long run, serve to prevent many serious diseases such as heart.

"It is important to advise young people to eat healthy, to avoid a heart attack at age 40 years," said Stephen.

Benefits of Garlic For Health

Benefits of Garlic For Health - Garlic has long been recognized that the people of Indonesia. Besides commonly used for flavoring dishes, also has many health benefits for humans.

Plants that are commonly used as an ingredient in various traditional medicine is known to have more than 100 biologically useful chemicals. Garlic also has antibacterial properties, antiviral, antifungal and antioxidant.

Well, here are some properties of garlic are legendary for health:

1. Studies show that taking 600 mg of garlic per day will lower cholesterol levels dramatically.

2. The ability of garlic to fight infection and bacteria making it the subject of an effective treatment to overcome the warts and other skin problems.

3. Garlic is also a powerful aphrodisiac because it helps increase blood circulation which helps erection.

4. Garlic regulate blood sugar levels by increasing release of insulin in diabetics.

5. Garlic has antibacterial and anesthetic properties that can help cure a toothache.

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Avoid Eating Ice Cream When Menstruation

Avoid Eating Ice Cream When Menstruation - Cramping and pain are common in women who are menstruating. But you should avoid eating ice cream during menstruation. Why?

Dairy products including ice cream can increase the pain or menstrual cramps. Ice-cream milk and other foods containing omega-6 fatty acid called arachidonic acid, which can exacerbate inflammation (inflammation) and increased release of prostaglandins that cause cramps, as reported by the LIVESTRONG, Sunday (08/21/2011).

Prostaglandins are chemical in cells that can cause muscle contraction. Menstrual cramps occur when the uterus contracts to expel the excess blood, and tissues that are formed in the second half of the menstrual cycle.

Increased levels of prostaglandins cause diarrhea and cramps. Arachidonic acid, unsaturated fatty acids omage-6 in the ice cream can increase the production of prostaglandins.

Arachidonic acid (AA) such as omega-6 fatty acids, can activate the inflammatory reaction is needed to fight pathogens. The body synthesizes prostaglandin series-2 from AA. If you eat foods high in AA, you may form a series-2 prostaglandins excessively. Avoid "dairy products" can prevent this.

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Coffee Powder Can Prevent Cancer Risk

Coffee Powder Can Prevent Cancer Risk - One more research show that coffee is the plant that have many benefits for our health. Latest research in America has identified that drink coffee or even use the coffee powder in skin can prevent skin from cancer risk.

The research that done by Dr Allan conney from rutgers university in new jersey AS has showed, caffeine in coffee can help prevent appear the skin cancer, non-melanoma by kill cells that broke and possible to be tumor.

Many research before have identified that drink a cup of coffee contain caffeine every day have effect to press the enzim ATR and trigger the dead of cells that broke by shine of UV shine.

Conney and his team able confirm their hypothesis that coffee which contain caffeine (drink or use in skin) able work to prevent the ATR. the next research needed for looking how the same theory may also for human benefits.

"we want to see, is caffeine have effect at human, if gave by scale," said conney, that publish his research in journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

And then he add any more that caffeine be the weapon in prevention because have ability to prevetn ATR and also act as sun screen that absorb the Ultraviolet that bitten us.

Rare skin infection, caused by Tato

Rare skin infection, caused by Tato - A rare bacterial infection and resistance to antibiotics found in two people that justdo tattoos. According to the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the infection usually found in people who suffer from immune system disorders.

Bacterial infections of the skin was triggered by the bacterium Mycobacterium haemophilium that are still one family with the bacteria that cause tuberculosis and leprosy. Symptoms of illness include a small swelling at the site of infection, redness, pain, swelling, and peeling.

Because the disease is relatively rare, tattoo enthusiasts are asked not to worry. However, encouraged to choose a tattoo that gave priority to hygiene and the use of sterile equipment.

Meagen Kay from the CDC revealed: the bacteria that infected, probably because the skin is injured by a tattoo needle because both men have a normal immune system. As is known, the skin is a bulwark against infection.

Bacterial infections are also resistant to various antibiotics including ordinary. Healing time was reached a month. (M05-11)

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Coconut Water, Natural Isotonic

Coconut Water, Natural Isotonic - As long as Ramadhan, coconut water is a fresh drinks that mostly looking for when breaking the fast. In addition fresh, the fact of this coconut water is the natural isotonic drinks. According to the Agriculture Agency (FAO), young coconut water can be used as a tonic for a natural energy. This is because coconut milk is rich in potassium (potash), sugars, and proteins. Naturally, young coconut water has a mineral composition and sugar is perfect, so similar to human body fluids.

In contrast to isotonic beverages in packaging, which is dangerous if taken carelessly, coconut water is relatively safe for consumption.

Therefore, if you do a lot of activities that deplete the sweat, drink young coconut water just enough to replace lost body fluids. However, please note that once opened and removed from its shell, coconut water is easy to experience a taste change material, and a decrease in nutritional value.

In order properties of coconut water was not lost, better to drink fresh coconut water from a newly when opened shell. Drink without any mixture, like syrup. Just add ice cubes and a bit of sugar to feel more freshness.

Coconut Water Lower Blood Pressure

Coconut Water lower blood pressure - Coconut water is one of the favorite drinks for break the fasting. The fresh effect that appear from coconut water, because coconut water contain natural electrolyte that really good for change the body fluid that gone.

In the website of 'WebMD' is mentioned, coconut water consists of water (94 percent) and low in calories. Coconut water is also a source of B vitamins, potassium, enzymes and amino acids and has the effect of antioxidants in the body.

Scientific research about the benefits of coconut water is still limited, but one of them says, blood pressure, "high blood pressure patients" who regularly consume coconut water dropped to 71 percent.

"Compared with" isotonic "or energy drinks, coconut water is richer in potassium than sodium. As is known, sodium should be limited because it can cause hypertension," said Dr. Helmin Agustina Silalahi, Kalbe Farma, a medical adviser, in a press conference Hydro Culinary Ramadan in Jakarta, Friday (8/5/2011).

Calium, and potassium known to be beneficial to heart health. Therefore, experts say, pure coconut water to drink without sugar can help reduce the risk of heart disease.

"The World Food Organization (FAO) has stated, coconut water as a natural energy drink. The content of fructose and glucose can also make the body re-energized after a day of fasting, without worrying about blood sugar rises," said Helmin.

Grapes, Skin Protector from UV Rays

Wine, Skin Protector from UV Rays - Probably not many of us who know in depth the benefits of grapes. Besides the sweet taste, the fruit is known for containing many polyphenolic compounds and resveratol are active in a variety of body metabolism.

However, recently researchers at the University of Barcelona and the CSIC (Spanish National Research Council) found one more benefit of the grapes. They claim, certain compounds present in wine may protect the skin from radiation exposure to the sun's harmful UV rays.

The study found that the substances contained in wine can reduce the level of cell damage on the skin from sun radiation can cause skin cancer. As is known, exposed to UV rays will turn the skin or reactive oxygen species (ROS) which cause oxidation of macromolecules on DNA and lipids. So, will ultimately enable the reaction of certain enzymes that cause cell death.

The researchers observed that certain polyphenolic substances, extracted from grapes, may inhibit the formation of ROS epidermal cells that have been exposed to long wave (UVA) and medium wave (UVB). Based on these studies, investigators eventually concluded that the polyphenol compounds can help protect the skin from the sun's ultraviolet rays.

According to researchers, a number of skin care cosmetic products already make use of wine as a base material of manufacture, but they do not fully understand how processing. The researchers hope these findings will continue to be developed so the future efficacy of the grapes can be more utilized.