Archive for 2009
Although the existence of a link between excess food and different diseases is accepted, it is difficult to establish a direct relationship between diet and cancer, for lack of scientific evidence unstoppable.
Food is one of the main factors implicated in the onset of cancer for the following reasons:
- Supply current is too high in fat and calories and low in fruits and vegetables. Obesity causes food decrease dietary fiber are involved in the development of gastrointestinal cancer.
- Alcohol is one of the most important factors of cancer, as shown cancer rates in areas heavy consumption of spirits, as the region of Calvados. Alcohol is particularly implicated in cancers of the throat and esophagus.
- Hot drinks like tea (especially in Asian regions), are a risk factor.
- The meats are barbecued at the root of many carcinogens, like nitrosamines.
- Dyes and food additives, now well controlled, have long been a source of concern carcinogens. Read the rest of this entry »
The autumn season has just begun, bringing with it new fruits and vegetables, which will call your diet. At this time of year, grocery stores and markets are beginning to see the best fall market.
While some early potatoes are available regardless of season of the year, some of them are waiting and rendezvous with our taste buds only during certain seasons.
Discovery Health has compiled a list of the best fruits fall to the health food with using FoodFit founded by Ellen Haas. Not only these 15 fruits are rich in vitamins and minerals essential to the body, but most are easy to store and prepare.
Apples fall from trees during moisd’automne. They can be gathered with family, or be purchased at the market. Apples are an excellent source of vitamin C and carctérisent by their high content of fiber (pectin). The apple will keep for six weeks with refrigeration or a free week. Easy to cut, they can be eaten plain or with fresh cheeses, in salads or vegetable dishes, added to meat dishes, or baked as a dessert.
Oranges provide an important input in vitamin C and fiber. In the case of traditional oranges, mandarins, clementines, they usually last a week or maybe two to three weeks in the refrigerator. The oranges are a refreshing snack, and also fit well in many salads.
Banana is available all year in most parts of the country, but fall is a particularly good season for this fruit. Full of vitamin B-6, fiber, potassium and vitamin C, it is a consistent result that can be incorporated into any diet. The color of the banana is a matter of taste, some love them less ripe and green, while others prefer darker and thus more mature. If your bananas have become brown, you can still enjoy performing with them in breads or cakes. Read the rest of this entry »
The diet for good digestion is a type of consumption-based dietary fibers that accelerate and facilitate the functions of the digestive system disorders and avoiding the discomfort of digestive difficulties.
In addition, fiber intake with this diet is based tends to give the feeling of satiety allowing less hungry to get the next meal. But most important of this diet is that it also facilitates the evacuation and thus, those who have difficulty using the toilet can go lighter on this diet.
For this diet is quite effective, it is very useful to combine this diet with daily consumption of at least two liters of water.
Procedure:
For breakfast:
* 1 orange into segments
* 1 egg mixed with potato peel
* 1 tortilla
* 1 coffee or 1 tea
For lunch at mid-morning:
* Vegetable juice
* 5 prunes
To eat:
* 1 lentil soup
* Average or 1 chicken breast fillet of fish baked or grilled
* Nopales salad
* 2 guavas in syrup
Snack:
* 1 packet fiber bars
For dinner:
* 1 cup high fiber cereal
* 1 cup skim milk
* 1 banana
When energy intake from food exceeds the energy consumed by the activities we do, we just started gaining weight due to accumulation of fat as energy reserve.
This applies to everyone, whether or not a higher rate of physical activity. For people who train with weights, whether or amateur bodybuilders, the issue is of particular interest because they must find a balance during maintenance periods.
We talked about the definition diets to reduce body fat and muscles get under the skin mark, but once you reach that point is necessary to amend both the food and the training to maintain the status achieved.
Culturist breakfast essential that the diet is balanced, varied enough to meet the nutritional and caloric requirements needed to address all the challenges presented to us daily.
Maintenance diets are not based on a particular menu, but changing eating habits, ie it is not follow a particular regime but to eat intelligently. Considering the importance of food as the food pyramid will include all groups to structure our meals.
Thus, the contribution of carbohydrates, proteins, fats, vitamins, minerals and other nutrients will be sufficient to what our body requires. Two examples of keeping up to bodybuilders diets that can easily adapt.
Several authors claim that it is possible to lose weight and build muscle with a high fat diet, the Anabolic and Metabolic Diet by Dr. Mauro Di Pasquale and diet Body Opus by Dan Duchaine, are two examples.
According to these diets can lose fat without losing muscle mass. It consists of a very low carbohydrate intake for 5 days with two days with high intake of carbohydrates to achieve the super-compensation. Our body provides fat diet very differently to carbohydrates or protein. While our intake of carbohydrates or protein is balanced body use as fuel, fat intake is balanced by changes in body fat deposits.
The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition reported two separate studies on how diets affect the use of fats and carbohydrates and fat deposits. One diet was high in carbohydrates and high in fat, while the other contained very little carbohydrate and fat.
Both studies concluded by stating that as carbohydrate intake rose or fell, was the same with its use as fuel. Moreover, the amount of fat eaten, corresponded to the individual body fat percentage, the more consumed, the more retained.
Note also that in one study the carbohydrate-rich diet contained 20% more calories than fat-rich diet, and yet the subject of high-carbohydrate group reduced their body weight in larger quantities.