Minerals Your Body Needs

Minerals are inorganic substances like sodium, potassium, chlorine, calcium, phosphorus, magnesium, iodine,iron, cobalt and copper.They are classified into two categories:minor and major, based on the intake level.If more than 100mg of a mineral is required per day,the mineral is classified as a major mineral.Major minerals include calcium, phosphorus, potassium,sodium, chlorine, magnesium and sulphur.Minor or trace minerals include boron,chromium,cobalt,flourine,iodine,iron, manganese, molybdenum, selenium,silicon,vanadium and zinc.

Plants incorporate minerals from the soil into their own tissues.For this reason fruits,vegetables,grains, legumes,nuts and seeds are often excellent sources of minerals.Minerals are vital for good health.Like vitamins they are essential for regulating and building the cells which make up the body.Body cells recieve the essential food elements through the bloodstream.They,must, therefore,be properly nourished with an adequate supply of all the essential minerals for the efficient functioning of the body.Minerals help to maintain the volume of water necessary for the life processes in the body.

Total Mineral Content Required In The Body:
Major Minerals	Weight(gms)	Trace Minerals	Weight(gms)
Calcium	1150	Iron	2.4
Phosphorus	600	Manganese	0.18
Potassium	210	Copper	0.09
Sulphur	150	Iodide	0.024
Sodium	90
Chloride	90
Magnesium	30

How About Tea? Is Tea Harmful?

Nobody knows exactly,where or when,the first cup of tea wa brewed.According to folklore,Emperor "Shen Nung" who reigned over China in 2732 BC discovered the stimulating effect of tea accidently when wild tea leaves fell into his pot of boiling drinking water.Chinese have probably been drinking tea in some form or the other since the fourth century AD and considering that wild tea grew in many parts of Assam,it is not unknowingly that tea drinking in India too is as old as in China.The raw material for tea manufacture normally consists of two young leaves and an unopened leaf bud-the famous "two leaves and a bud" formula, but,plucking of longer shoots containing 3 or even 4 leaves is not uncommon.The freshly harvested tea shoots can be processed into the various kinds of tea,namely,black tea, green tea,oolong tea and instant tea.In the manufacture of black tea(the usual tea that we drink),the material undergoes "fermentation" while in the production of green tea,delicate and subtle in flavour,fermentation is purposely omitted.Oolong tea leaves get an intermediate treatment,considered to be "semi-fermented".Instant tea,like instant coffee,is a dehydrated product containing only the soluble constituents of tea.

There is hardly any drink that is not a food too,in terms of calories it provides-tea is no exception.A cup of tea, containing 2 tbsp of milk and a tsp of sugar,yields about 40 calories.Milk contains casein,which makes the tannin in the tea insoluble,thus removing some of its astringency(acidic effect).Apart from the milk and sugar generally added,the tea infusion contains marginal quantities of vitamins and minerals,but no significant quantities of extractable proteins,carbohydrates or fats.

Tea is fairly rich in most of the B group vitamins.Apart from these,it is also a good source of vitamin E and K and Beta-carotene(changes into vitamin A in our body).Tea contains traces of minerals like Copper,Flouride and Managanese too.Flouride helps in avoiding cavities in the teeth.

The accumulating scientific data on tea and its constituents - the vitamins,caffeine and tannin- and on its antibacterial activity provides a new picture of this popular beverage.Over the past few decades,the list of physiological disorders for which tea is contra-indicated has been steadily decreasing.On the other hand,caffeine is sometimes prescribed therapeutically for the treatment of hypertensive headaches and tea is a legitimate means of supplying this medication.Tannin destroys bacteria and virus, thereby inhibiting the growth of dental plaque.But at the same time,tannin inhibits the absorption of iron,calcium and zinc from the food,when tea is consumed along with food.

Healthy Recipe : Juice Therapy

Curative and preventive properties of fruits and vegetables in ensuring a healthy body and glowing skin: Did you know that papaya,orange,lemon and pomegranate act as antidotes to high blood pressure......or amla and carrot are useful in controlling asthma...or guava and mosambi help in regualting constipation? In fact each and every fruit and vegetable has incrediable curative properties,and offers a natural way to good health.Fruits and vegetables act as scavengers to our body,and drive away toxic and harmful wastes.They nourish our body with pure water,sugar,vitamins, minerals,proteins,fibres,aromatic compounds and host of other micronutrients.Here are some examples which will help you combat some ailments effectively:

• High B.P. antidotes: Papaya,orange,lemon,pomegranate.

• Skin Disease preventives: Apple,carrot,watermelon,lemon.

• Asthma prophylactics: Amla,carrot,pomegranate.

• Fever combatants: Orange,mosambi,pomegranate.

• Diarrhoea curatives: Pineapple,apple,pomegranate.

• Constipation regulators: Guava,mosambi,apple.

• Digestion aid: Spinach(palak).

• Diabetic control: Bitter gourd(karela).

• Jaundice and Diarrhoea control: Carrot.

• According to nutritionists, weekly once, depending on the convenience of the persons,the stomach can be given complete rest without losing the required energy by following the juice therapy.In a 24-hour juice therapy,one can take different types of juices for every 2 hours and this can be discontinued when one goes to sleep,of course,under the medical guidance of the doctor.Thus your body gets detoxified every week.

Juice Therapy with some common vegetables:

• The Juice of Amaranth leaves is effective in resolving cataract.

• For Diabetes,a mixture of equal quantities of amla juice and bitter gourd juice taken every morning show a reduction in blood glucose levels.

• Beet juice is one of the most valuable juices for the liver and gall bladder.

• Brinjal juice is found to be an effective remedy for toothache.

• The use of cabbage juice for treatment of stomach ulcers is one of the latest and most vital advances in the field of juice therapy.

• A cup of carrot juice taken daily improves the eyesight and prevents cataract.Carrot juice is also excellent for the treatment of infantile diarrhoea and acute colitis.It also prevents dehydration.Mixed with a little honey carrot juice is highly effective in all sorts of fevers,general debility,nervous disorders,anaemia,lassitude,low vitality,and rundown conditions.Carrot juice applied on the burns help them heal faster.

• 1-2 tsp fresh juice of coriander leaves mixed in 1 teacup buttermilk to be taken 2-3 times daily for Dysentry,Hepatitis,Indigestion and Nausea.Juice of fresh coriander leaves can be used as nasal drops for bleeding nose.Coriander juice applied on blackheads and pimples daily work wonders.

• Equal quantities to limejuice and the juice of the fresh leaves of the drumstick plant applied on the blackheads and pimples regularly,help in getting rid of them.Drumstick juice mixed with carrot juice help reduce blood pressure.

• 2 tsp fresh juice of Fenugreek leaves along with 1 tsp honey to be taken daily in case of recurrent headaches and insomnia.

• Equal quantities of ginger juice,lemon juice,pudina juice and honey to be taken frequently for Dyspepsia,nausea,indigestion,jaundice,morning sickness and piles.Juice of ginger should be taken with honey 2-3 times daily for persistent cough.

• Lemon juice is an excellent blood purifier.Upon rising in the morning,drink the juice of 1 lemon in a cup of warm water.It helps in reducing obesity.Asthma is relieved by taking a half-spoonfdul of lemon-juice before each meal and upon retiring.Lemon juice taken 3-4 times daily along with garlic cures cough and cold.Drinking lemon juice daily helps to alleviate rheumatic fever,painful joints,lumbago and sciatica.

• Mint leaf juice is good in case of digestive disorders.

• Equal quantities of raw onion juice and honey,taken twice a day are effective for stomachache and indigestion.

• A cup of raw potato juice taken daily cures acidity.

• Juice of fresh ripe pumpkin taken regularly helps to get rid of kidney stones.Radish juice and its leaves,mixed with a little sugar,should be taken twice daily in the cases of jaundice.Equal quantities of radish juice,cucumber juice and capsicum juice,taken once a week would help in cleansing the digestive and respiratory systems of the body.

• Raw spinach juice taken twice a day before meals lowers the blood sugar.Spinach leaf juice,as a gargle,is good for sore throat.

• A glass of fresh tomato juice taken daily cleanses the system and prevents hardening of the arteries.Tomato juice keeps the blood stream alkaline and thus maintains high resistance to disease.

• Turnip juice mixed with cabbage or carrot juice,taken daily reduces mucous,helps asthma and bronchitis and relieves sore throats.

Fibre And Health

The middle-aged are being afflicted by a plague of modern Western illnesses,many of them being fatal.Those illnesses are not caught from germs or viruses-they seem to creep upon us gradually.They are known,collectively as degenerative diseases,the commonest cause of death in Western countries.The second great destroyer is cancer,cancer of lung,and cancer of bowel being the most common fatal,forms of cancer.Apart from these,there is a group of other degenerative diseases like diabetes,diverticulosis and other less-serious but still troublesome problems like varicose veins,haemorrhoids and constipation.

The major factor that all these illnesses and health problems have in common is,that they are very rare among the "third world countries".Why?It has been found that these communities live on diets which contain a much higher percentage of carbohydrates obtained from cereals which have not been stripped off their dietary fibre,fibre-rich vegetables,legumes and fruits.Such findings have led to a surge of interest in dietary fibre-which for several years was considered to be just one of the unavailable sources of energy in the diet,incidentally having a laxative effect.Dietary fibre is essentially of plant origin.All cereals,fruits and vegetables contain some dietary fibre,but,just as the calorie content of different food varies to a great degree ,so does the fibre content.With cereal based foods,fibre value depends to a greater degree on how much has been stripped away in the milling and refining processes.But what exactly is dietary fibre?It can be best described as the carbohydrate material in plant foods that is not digested by man.It is a sponge like material,which absorbs and holds water as it is chewed in the mouth and passes down the gastrointestinal tract.This means that fibre-rich foods swell to a greater bulk,to fill the stomach,than any other foods.

Dietary fibre is the substance,which makes the waste matter(from the food we eat)pass through us and out of us at a desirable,speedy,natural rate.This is one of the main reasons why it is now considered to be such an important protective factor in saving us from diseases of bowel like cancer.The slow transit rate of fibre-depleted diet is thought to encourage the formation of cancer-forming substances (carcinogens)and other toxins within the body.A high fibre diet would pass through the alimentary canal quickly,giving these carcinogens and toxins very little time to interact in the intestines.The relationship between fibre and constipation is well known.A high fibre diet,thus,relieves a person from constipations and associated problems like haemorrhoids and diverticular disease.

Amongst all the risk factors:cigarette smoking,diet,sedentary living,stress-the strongest for coronary heart disease has been found to be smoking and the strongest protective factor,the intake of cereal fibre.The reason for the beneficial effect of dietary fibre is that it reduces the absorption of cholesterol.

Diabetes involves a faulty insulin production.(Insulin is necessary to control the excess of sugar in the blood).Insulin response to the carbohydrates of the food we eat varies with the speed of absorption of the carbohydrates.Any dietary factor which delays the absorption of carbohydrates maybe regarded as beneficial and here again dietary fibre appears in a valuable,preventive and protective role.Carbohydrate foods rich in fibre are absorbed more slowly than those from which the fibre has been removed.Hence the popularity of gram flour(high in fibre)in diabetes.

After controlling all the degenerative diseases,fibre goes onto control the body weight too.The principle is simple.Fibre provides no calories,so the total calorie value of a high fibre diet will be less.Secondly,the water absorbing and swelling tendencies of fibre help to fill up the stomach faster and for a longer period of time,thus,the total dietary intake is reduced.

The simplest way to incorporate fibre in the diet is to use more of whole pulses,unseived wheat flour,fresh fruits and vegetables in raw from(not peeling wherever possible)everyday.

MAKANAN PENCEGAH BAU MULUT…

Bau mulut memang sangat mengganggu karena dapat menurunkan rasa percaya diri. Makanan berikut ini dapat mengurangi bau mulut :

PERMEN

Permen tanpa kandungan gula tidak dapat menggantikan fungsi penting menggosok gigi sehabis makan. Fungsinya hanya menyegarkan napas untuk sesaat karena cara bekerjanya adalah menambah produksi air liur untuk membersihkan bakteri dan penyakit. Permen rasa mint juga dapat digunakan untuk perlindungan sementara.

TUMBUH-TUMBUHAN

Untuk memerangi bau napas tak sedap, kunyah daun ketumbar, taragon, eucalyptus. Tanaman segar ini pun bisa dibuat minuman, yang jelas khasiatnya sangat baik untuk pencernaan. Jadi, Anda memperoleh dua keuntungan sekaligus, baik untuk pencernaan dan pencuci mulut.

YOGHURT

Biasakan makan yoghurt. Penelitian menunjukkan, dengan mengkonsumsi yoghurt setiap hari dapat mengurangi kadar bau mulut tak sedap. Yoghurt mengandung kadar organisme mikrokospis dan hydrogen sulfida yang dapat mengurangi bakteri di mulut, sehingga mencegah gigi berlubang dan penyakit gusi. Yoghurt membuat bakteri tidak dapat tumbuh. Tapi ingat pilih yoghurt yang natural, jangan yang sudah dibubuhi gula atau yang telah diproses lebih lanjut.

SAYUR DAN BUAH RENYAH

Apel, seledri, wortel, bisa dikunyah langsung sehabis makan. Jenis sayur dan buah ini diyakini dapat menambah produksi air liur sehingga menjadikan mulut tetap basah. Tapi, tetap saja, gosok gigi sehabis makan untuk mengeluarkan sisa makanan yang menyangkut di sela-sela gigi.

VITAMIN C DOSIS TINGGI

Makanlah buah-buahan jenis jeruk, melon, dan makanan lainnya yang mengandung vitamin C dosis tinggi. Jika tubuh kita penuh dengan vitamin C Bakteri enggan tumbuh berkembang.Untuk mereka yang berdiet, vitamin C dosis tinggi sangat dibutuhkan untuk mencegah penyakit gusi dan radang gusi. Kedua penyakit itu menyebabkan bau mulut yang tidak sedap.

Dapatkan vitamin C dari makanan, buah-buahan, sayuran, dan jangan dari suplemen, karena suplemen dapat menyebabkan perut menjadi mual sehingga akhirnya napas yang dikeluarkan menjadi bau. (source : KCM)

Limiting Fats and Cholesterol For Your Health

Besides avoiding high-sodium foods, people with heart failure should limit their intake of saturated fat, trans fat and cholesterol. Eating too much saturated fat, trans fat and cholesterol raises blood cholesterol, and high blood cholesterol is a major risk factor for developing other types of heart disease, including coronary arthery diseases, which often contribute to heart failure.

People with cardiovascular disease (CVD) should limit their intake to less than 200 milligrams of cholesterol daily. Total fat intake should be adjusted to meet a person's caloric needs. Saturated fat should be 7–10 percent. It should be less than 7 percent for those with CVD.

Reducing intake of these foods high in saturated fat, trans fat and cholesterol is a step in the right direction:

• Whole milk, cream and ice cream — try fat-free milk and low-fat frozen yogurt instead
• Butter, egg yolks and foods made with them, such as cakes and pies
• Bakery goods made with egg yolks and saturated and trans fats
• Cheeses and foods made with them — try low-fat cheeses or string cheese instead
• Organ meats such as liver, sweetbreads, kidney and brain
• Saturated oils like coconut oil, palm oil and palm kernel oil
• High-fat processed meats like sausage, bologna, salami and hot dogs
• Fatty red meats that aren't trimmed of excess fat
• Duck and goose meat (lower-fat poultry options are available)
• Chicken and turkey with the skin on
• Solid fats like shortening, stick margarine and lard
• Fried foods such as fried chicken, french fries and potato chips

A GOOD NUTRITION: Your Wise Investment

From Your Nutrition, Are You a Wise Investor or a Deep-In-Debtor?

What motivates women to make a commitment to healthy habits, and does this commitment actually translate into good health? A recent Louis Harris Women's Health and Nutrition National Survey has provided some fascinating answers to these questions. One of the key findings is that women who view good nutrition as a long-term investment in their health, and who have maintained healthy eating habits for at least 10 years, are most likely to rate their health as “excellent.”

Too many women would agree with the statement, “I'm probably going to pay more attention to nutrition when I get older”. In fact, the survey revealed that it isn't until age 40 that most women begin to develop a true commitment to healthy eating (60 percent of women age 40 and over say they practice healthy eating habits every day, versus 43 percent of those under 40).

Based on the survey results, women under 40 should consider changing their habits now, because if they don't have healthy eating habits by age 40 they are less likely to change.

And to help women better understand the impact of personal health habits, four distinct “nutrition investor” profiles have been identified based on the survey:

• Deep-In-Debtors are women who will definitely experience declining balances as they age. Unfortunately, they're not so few and far between, numbering 14 million (13 percent of the adult female population). Deep-In-Debtors delight in the inventions of moving sidewalks and drive-thru restaurants (they don't believe in exercise) and “diet,” even when it means healthy eating, is definitely a four-letter word to them. They also are permanent procrastinators they see nothing wrong with eating tomorrow what they couldn't eat today. Bottom Line? they generally consider themselves to be in poorer health (and they can bank on it!).
• Insufficient Funders are a sizable group 41 million women who either eat right or exercise, but they don't do both. Because of their unbalanced approach to a healthy lifestyle, their nutrition savings accounts are likely to be stamped “insufficient funds” later in life. The “IFs” who only exercise would like to eat better, but they just can't get themselves to do it. High-fat, high – cholesterol foods are likely to be staples in their diets. Skim milk, margarine, low-fat yogurt and fat-free salad dressing are probably absent from their refrigerators. Insufficient Funders, especially if they don't exercise, are likely to rate their current health only as “fair.”
• Asset Builders are women who frequently watch what they eat and exercise regularly, but they're not as committed as the Wise Investors. They believe strongly in checks and balances, agreeing in a heartbeat that “exercise is as important as a good diet in staying healthy.” Choosing lean cuts of meat and chicken is one of the simple changes they've made to improve their eating habits. These women, who number 19 million, are building a nice nutrition nest-egg for the future. And they're currently protecting some strong assets they usually rate their health as “very good” or “good”.
• Wise Investors are women who practice good eating habits every day and exercise regularly, realizing that they will see big dividends in their older years. They number 27 million (27 percent of the USA adult female population). They're healthy, wealthy (as it relates to benefiting from good nutrition) and wise. And, unlike the stock market adage, they know that past performance can guarantee future success. Some of the healthy eating habits Wise Investors have adopted are getting enough fiber and calcium every day, and controlling their intake of total fat, saturated fat and cholesterol. Whole grain breads and cereals, lots of fruits and vegetables, and margarine are examples of foods that easily fit into their diets. Biggest return on their investment? They usually rate their health as “excellent.”

HEALTHY FACT OF VEGETARIAN FOOD

Science find that human being own the special body organ with the laboring process and function according to certain natural law. This natural law if listened go, will look after the healthy body and work in normal storey level. Existence of action digress from natural law can give the damage influence of human being body. We are created to become the vegetarian! There is difference between herbivore ( animal of crop eater) and carnivore among other things :

MOUTH. Mouth of human being opened to minimize, while doggish carnivore have the wide open mouth so that big clod of flesh can come into the mouth.

TOOTH FORMATION. Human being have the crosscut incisor sharply with the molar tooth which level off or flatten used to pulverize and munch the food. This matter is equal to herbivore animal ( crop eater). On the other side, carnivor ( karnivora) have the long fang, strength and sharply to grab and tear the food ( flesh). With the keen fang beside come near the jaw used to cut flesh.

INTESTINE. Carnivor own the simple stomach, short small intestine, and very short large intestine, slippery and diametrical. At others, crop eater have the capacities of stomach larger ones with its sharess which is complicated oftentimes, for example stomach of concubine livestock / ox which multiple.The small intestine is very long and its large intestine is slippery and long. Intestine of human being do not the in form of like all carnivor.

SWEAT BAND. Herbivor sweat passing husk is same as human being, while carnivor animal sweat passing mouth. Spit the human being contain the enzyme ptialin, is same as animal of herbivor, what is used to digest the flour (meal). Human being drink the water by sucking / inhaling like crop eater. While all carnivor animal breath in with their tongue. The bile of human being like animal of herbivor and not like carnivor.

Vegetarian Food Prevent the Disease

Because human being designed not to eat the flesh, no wonder if a lot of fearful disease arise in consequence of eating flesh, included in cancercous, heart of kardiovaskular and cerebrovaskular, stroke, hipertension, etc. Science have old prove that vegetarian food can prevent this disease.

Previously, in 1961, magazine " Journal Of American Medical Association" expressing: " Vegetarian food can prevent 97% from gagging aortae of heart."Rita Butram Phd, Lead the Area of Food and cancer at Institute of National Cancer ( American NCI) say that number of death of effect of cancer there is its bearing with the food. Hereinafter he say that American NCI have determined the year 2000 to reach the target lessen the death of effect of cancer until 50%. According to Dr. Butram, this target can be reached if people listen go the fomentation from this Institute, is the following:

1. Lessen the fat until 30% from totalizeing diet
2. Improving fibre food until 20-30 gram per day, with the boundary at most 35 gram
3. Take care of the ideal body weight
4. Eat more amount fruit and vegetables
5. Vegetarian food improve endurance

Dr. Per Olof Astrand, a man of science of Swedia which famous, performing experiment to determine the best food to all sportsman. By chosening nine atlet for the experiment of its, he give various different food for the three-day of, the following:

Phase I: normal mixture food
( flesh, potato, carrot, kol, and butter). All athlete pedal bicycle kept quiet for the mean of 114 minute

Phase II: high protein and fat ( flesh, fish, butter and egg). They can pedal the bicycle kept quiet during 57 minute before fatigue.

Phase III: food have high carbohydrate
( bread, potato, maize and multifarious of vegetable and fruit). They ready to pedal the bicycle kept quiet for the mean of about 167 minute.

Equally their endurance is bigger treble almost when they eat the vegetarian food compared by if they eat flesh and result of other ranch.

Schontenden test a number of university student Brussels to compare the energy strength from people who is all vegetarian of compare people who like to eat the flesh. All student obliged to follow two physical test:

-Depressing " ergograph" right by hand

-Lifting weight

Its result indicate that all vegetarian reach the mean 69 number at ergograph and carnivor only reach 38. The strongest vegetarian reach the number 1,457 in lifting weight, while strongest carnivor only reach the number 1,049. The matter surprising is that he discover all convalesce quicker vegetarian after cleanse the energy so that more readily repeat that experiment is compared to with their opponents.

No wonder most of world athlete is vegetarian. What secret from victory of all atlet? If we eating food contain carbohydrate hence will be turned into a glucose and on file in liver and muscle in the form of glikogen. The number of glikogen at muscle of vital importance to alter the ATP ( Adenosine Triphosphate) becoming ADP ( Adenosine Diphosphate) yielding energy. In consequence, more amount carbohydrate amount eaten, more amount energy yielded. Flesh not contain the carbohydrate little. That cause, a vegetarian will yield the more amount energy.

Healthy Tips Food :

1. Consume kinds of grain, seed and vegetable.
2. Prepare the food as simple as possible, but draw and conducive to the appetite. Braise, burn or grill , its change fry. Avoid the fat. Use all fat type seldom possible ( vegetation oil, better).
3. Eat Regular :Morning: best food and a lot of. ( kingly morning breakfast), Day : best secondary food ( lunch like prince), Night : lightest food from that day ( dine like beggar).
4. Don't eat among mealtime

By following healthy food principles above hopefully you can get the health which as well as possible. By following king guidance - prince - beggar, your body overweight will not again become the problem. You'd sleep more well-sleep between two lights because digestion also can follow the rest ( don't digest the food whereas we sleep). A lot of its benefit besides preventing disease, also can improve the strength. Top-Drawer matter is trying to practice at yourself and find how life you'd be healthier and happier.